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Why I am leaving - with a hint of sadness
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I have enjoyed TUTV for 18 months or so but have now cancelled my subscription - even though they offered me a lot of goodies to keep me - for the following reasons;
- Repeats of repeats such as Medium , which used to be the only US programme we watched.
- 'showcase' , if thats the best on offer I dread to think what the worst is like
- A list of subscription channels that seemed to have become a BBC Worldwide subscription
- The availability of content through iPlayer and SeeSaw which reflects the programming I actually want to see.
- When we started with TUTV 9.99 was a reasonable price for the offer, 11.99 is now getting close to prices on the Murdoch channel.
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I have a question for you, did you get ukgold ? If so was it 24 hour ?
The TYUTV doesn't seem to show gold at all.
Last time I looked I got G.O.L.D . UKGold no longer exists it split into comedy and drama streams. GOLD is the comedy but the crime (Alibi iirc) is not on TUTV
And its not on 24 hours either, Live it's on in the evening but the TUTV box records shows from it.
I really hop TUTV produce a TUTV HD box their existing box looks terrible on it, perhaps if they make the menu systems 16:9 it would loo ka bit better.
I know what you mean, at least get the interface in say 720p/1080i, and fit an upscaler too.
BT did this and it's prooven to work well. it's what TUTV should do next.
Although technically speaking they could make a HD box now that supports Freeview HD.
IMO it's quiet these days on here because most of the issues that people came on to grumble about have been resolved.
Correct.
Azimo likes to remind us that. that is not true.
Even if they don't want to offer HD they may need a Freeview+ HD box that supports TUTV Anytime otherwise some may give up TUTV for BBC HD/ITV HD and C4 HD.
I've personally almost "given up" on here because the whole point of swapping help and discussion on a forum gets boring when some people are here for only one reason - which I still cannot understand.
Richard
PS The box is totally fit for purpose - it never lets me down. I love it so much I've bought a second for the kids.
You're not the only one who feels that way.
Regards
Plus 1.
What I can't understand is why people with the same box and the same software don't have the same problems.
I'm currently trying to watch everything so that I can try a reversion back to 4.09 (Thomson). I do not want to risk it before it's watched incase everything disappears.
Maybe the reason the forum is quiet is people have given up trying to get things fixed or possibly given up with TopUpTV fullstop.
Out of interest what issues are you having with the current release of the software that you would want to revert to an older less stable version?
Since the new software I have serious problems with deleting watched programmes. Unfortunately it is completely random, today I might only be able to delete one and the box will crash tomorrow it might be four. When it crashes it has to be unplugged before it will work properly again, and when it reboots more often than not the programmes you've just deleted are back again
This one might just be coincidence as I don't remember it happening before but at times the box will crash during playback, ok a duff recording, these things happen. So why will the same prog play all the way through on the menu/preview window and I've also found that once you know where the crash bit is you can fast forward passed it too.
With the last software the only problems I had was the trick play sometimes played up.
Are you giving the delete process time to complete it's task?
There are times when I think nothing is happening but then whoosh "bye bye " recording
Just a thought that may be of help.
Hope THIS post doesn't get deleted.
Regards
Not sure what you mean about giving it time to delete, I have no control over it as the box shuts down and reboots but then it won't do anything until I unplug it from the mains and reboot it again. On restart more often than not the deleted programmes are back. If I do manage to complete a deletion or two I power the box down, unplug it and then reboot it as the only way of guaranteeing that it will stay stable.
Also I don't try and delete when the box is recording which I know has given other people problems. So for me this version of the software is driving me nuts
Oh ok sorry I thought your box just sat there doing nothing,
There was a thread a while ago about turning off the small preview windows that appear.
Sorry I don't have a link to that.
Regards
The only problem I ever had with the previous software was the random start position at times from either fast forward or rewind.
I ever used series link for two weeks and found I'd got something like 10 episodes of Flashforward, which I believe is down to the broadcaster and not the box anyway.
I've had the live TV buffer enabled the whole time I've had the box and until I found these forums just before Christmas I didn't know that it caused all sorts of trouble for some people.
As I said previously I don't understand why the same firmware on the same boxes can give such varied results.
Nor me ! Mine works fine .
Forgot to mention the buffer thing.
Regards
The box was certainly not the cause of my leaving TUTV. I'd have bought another one if the content were there.