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#16
Quote from: dgaust on June 30, 2009, 10:56:03 AM
Why do you expect IceTV to support a beta product? Win7 is still in beta testing, things have (and are) changing between releases. If the issue still exists when the full version of Win7 ships (or it's not fixed within a reasonable time frame) then you have a valid point.

Given that Ice have numerous other devices to support, that are actually properly released products, I think it's slightly unfair of you to expect them to expend a large portion of their resources supporting a beta program.

If someone wants a rock solid machine for use in production, then they shouldn't consider Win7.

The reasons are that ICE TV encouraged the beta testing on WIN 7 from the earliest release. It has now been roughly four (4) months since and no real work has been done to resolve it. The problem is a known quantity. I would need to be convinced that anything relevant is changing. And indeed that is not the reason that has been offered. A large number of people world wide including ICE Tv customers are using WIN 7 on production machines for obvious reasons because it is hardly beta software and Microsoft has pushed the software with a very wide public release and numerous leaked builds. Finally, it would probably be a different story if the functionality being added was to enable the use of basic equipment required by subscribers. But it is redesigning the website, mobile phones applications and widgets for those who already have functionality.
#17
Quote from: muzzakus on June 29, 2009, 04:01:32 PM
I just got new PC bits prior to efy and was going to build with Windows7 vs my current Vista setup.  But this PC needs to be production quality to serve the houshold TV needs via xbox360 extenders.  Should I do it?  Is the over the air EPG good enough?  THe ICETv solution seems unworkable at present based on what I'm reading.


It is unworkable unless you pass the ICE TV data through Bigscreen EPG. This is a workaround and if I didn't already have a subscription, I wouldn't have bothered. For some reason ICE Tv think it is a greater priority to build gadgets than basic functionality for their customers.
#18
Yes, beta or no beta, a lot of people are using Win7 for production machines and this deserves attention if for no other reason that ppl will not renew their subscriptions (nor buy one at a discounted rate!)
#19
Dear Russell

Thanks for your response. Does this mean (heaven forbid) that I would not experience the problem if I switched to the EIT data?

Regards

Stuart
#20
I have Win 7 7068 installed and am still having lots of problems with dual  HVR 1100 tuner cards with series recording.I should say that this may well be because I have not done clean installs but upgrade from 7000 - 7057 - 7068 but who knows. The latest behaviour is that ABC programs, in particular, record on both ABC1 and ABC HD even though specifically instructed only to record on ABC 1. I also seem to get WIN 7 reporting that ABC news will not record because another airing of it will be in a week. In other words, shows like ABC news at 7pm are coming up as  a repeat and being ignored. This is even the case when I have record new and rerun selected for the series.... It is unclear to me whether this is a ICE TV issue or Win7, but I would assume that if the data were correct, ABC News at 7pm should be recognised by Wind 7 as 'New' and not repeat or rerun...

Regards
Stuart
#21
Ok, I set up the TV signal afresh, and although none of the channels were not automatically mapped to ICE-TV, I was able to manually map each of them including the ABC channels which had been problems.  So apart from the fact that the Hauppague HVR tuner drivers are still not working properly with Win 7, I am a little bit closer to where I need to be.
#22
Quote from: splark on March 14, 2009, 05:55:09 PM
Yes I've just tried with 7057 x64. It works perfectly, the ABC and 10 issues seem to be fixed, every channel I wanted had an IceTV mapping without me having to do anything.

Also Media center just seems to run much nicer, in previous versions it would pause and take a few seconds to switch between full screen and windowed. In this build it is completely instant. Very nice. There are also new sounds at media center startup and moving around the menus as well.

The new wallpapers in the this build are really nice too.

I have now upgraded to the 32 bit version. At this stage, although I agree that it works with 7057, my ieeus with ABC 1 and ABC 2 have not been resolved. But I didn't set up the TV settings, just let it use my previous settings. What did you do? Should I ask it to set up all my settings from scratch?
#23
Hi, has anyone tested the beta against buid 7057 yet?

#24
I am in Sydney and have had technical problems with recording in MCE. It may be the way in which MCE treats my dual Haupauge HVR-1100 tuners or something to do with the guide until recently entirely EIT. So I am interested to hear that ABC guide entries are a 'known problem' for ICE. Does the problem apply to EIT entries for ABC too?  I have not been able to load ABC ice entries in Sydney so am still using EIT for ABC, but ICE for all the other channels which have been correctly mapped by Russel's software. After one (1) day, it seems that the tuner issues may be resolved for the channels that are now using ICE data, but not the ABC on EIT. Has anyone else experienced this issue or any change since the release of this beta? What is the particular problem with ABC?

Regards
Stuart