Messages

I'd call this a major setback. Unfortunately, I can't help but feel this will drag on until next Christmas.

But in the meantime, my S1 continues to chug away faultlessly..... :D

Well, that looks like being one of my better calls.

Although I'd rather have been proven wrong in this instance.  :(

Shame to hear it's suffered a minor setback with chipsets and now postponed to July next year.

I'd call this a major setback. Unfortunately, I can't help but feel this will drag on until next Christmas.

But in the meantime, my S1 continues to chug away faultlessly..... :D

I agree - skip the Blu Ray in the new device - can you clarify what auto DLS change-overs means?

As grampus said, Daylight Savings. Having to go through the multi-multi-step process twice a year is a pain, and 10-fold when it doesn't go smoothly and your timers don't all get re-sent properly.

I will be extremely disappointed if Ice don't find a way to eliminate this requirement, be it via using UTC or some auto process which runs without user intervention. Was this not even discussed at the meeting? prl, were you there? Surely you would have brought it up if you were.....

Yes, on thinking about it more, I'd rather Ice just concentrate on making a kick-ass PVR and forget about optical media. Currently I use a PS3 to play blu-rays, there is no reason why I couldn't continue to do that.

Oh, and I presume auto DLS change-overs are a given? That alone would go a long way to convince me to buy one.

So what do others think on this aspect?

Does the ICE Box need to have a Blu Ray drive included with it?

This is a tricky one. It would certainly be attractive from a marketing sheet perspective. For me, it would be great to have it, but I'd still buy it if it didn't (assuming no other deal-breaker issues). I remember quite clearly how much trouble Beyonwiz had getting their DVD drive to work to an acceptable level, so they must have devoted a considerable amount of time to do so. A cautionary tale for the Ice engineers.......

I had this happen a few times on my Wiz, a few months back with Sarah Connor Chronicles. The episodes were 60 minutes, and my recordings were strange lengths like 27 mins, 43 mins. Luckily it only ever happened on the second weekly screenings of some episodes, the first screenings always recorded correctly. Only once I missed the end of an episode due to a massive broadcaster schedule overrun, so I didn't end up missing much. For this reason, I never bothered to dig deeply into the possible cause of it.

As discussed on the Beyonwiz forum:

It seems that the Ice software is unable to tell the difference between its own timers and Wiz-created timers. As a result, after doing a 're-send all timers', any Wiz-created timers such as a 'Weekly' are deleted and re-created as 'Once' timers, and are now 1 hr too early! I presume this is the case with Toppys and other devices also.

This 're-send' function needs to identify timers which were created on the unit and *not* delete and re-send these!

In case you missed the announcement, see here: http://www.icetv.com.au/iceforum/index.php?topic=714.0

Thanks Ice, great work! ;D ;D ;D

[essential]

I'd say it is now essential to do this.

On my HD plasma I have the following channels set up: 21, 20, 30, 70, 90, 12. Nearly all HD channels, as I have no need for the SD channels. And I want to set my PVR up the same way. But how can I with stuff-all EPG data?

As I mentioned in a similar thread over at the Topfield Forum, why not put a * before the title for non-HD content e.g. *Great Outdoors. Then you can just put a disclaimer on your website such as:

"Note: Programs marked with a * are programs on the HD channels which are not promised to be screened by the networks, therefore we in turn are unable to promise the accuracy of this data. If you wish to record such a program, we recommend using the corresponding SD channel to avoid possible disappointment."

I don't see why this is so hard....??