Hi I've just joined up to this forum, I got my Skippa yesterday
I've applied the firmware update that I was prompted with and have rebooted the Skippa (with a power-cycle afterwards as well)
1. Setup was easy and quick
2. Remote is OK, but a few of the buttons "stick" down when pressed - annoying!
3. Watching live TV is generally good. Got a moderate amount of "searching for signal" messages and image break-up ... this hardly happens at all on my TV or existing PVR. The unit crashed and rebooted during a channel-change. Channel change is slow. Have had a few times where I've changed channels (by selecting the channel from the TV guide) and the picture froze but I could hear audio. The picture eventually un-froze about 15 - 20 seconds later.
4. Ad-skipping is hit & miss. Watching animated shows (Simpsons, Futurama) seems to trick it and the ad-skip triggers in the middle of the show and cuts off minutes of non-ad content. In non-animated shows it does OK but is only correct about 50% of the time.
5. When watching-back recordings (and I had 3 recordings going on 3 different broadcast streams at the time) the image break-up is severe and frequent. Made most of my recorded content unwatchable.
Not stable enough to use full time yet... I guess I'll put it in a drawer until I hear of new firmware or fixes to the above problems.
I've applied the firmware update that I was prompted with and have rebooted the Skippa (with a power-cycle afterwards as well)
1. Setup was easy and quick
2. Remote is OK, but a few of the buttons "stick" down when pressed - annoying!
3. Watching live TV is generally good. Got a moderate amount of "searching for signal" messages and image break-up ... this hardly happens at all on my TV or existing PVR. The unit crashed and rebooted during a channel-change. Channel change is slow. Have had a few times where I've changed channels (by selecting the channel from the TV guide) and the picture froze but I could hear audio. The picture eventually un-froze about 15 - 20 seconds later.
4. Ad-skipping is hit & miss. Watching animated shows (Simpsons, Futurama) seems to trick it and the ad-skip triggers in the middle of the show and cuts off minutes of non-ad content. In non-animated shows it does OK but is only correct about 50% of the time.
5. When watching-back recordings (and I had 3 recordings going on 3 different broadcast streams at the time) the image break-up is severe and frequent. Made most of my recorded content unwatchable.
Not stable enough to use full time yet... I guess I'll put it in a drawer until I hear of new firmware or fixes to the above problems.