When you are typing in a channel number the digits still don't stay on the screen long enough. You still have to be pretty quick with the old fingers. 
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Originally Posted by CanonMan:
“When you are typing in a channel number the digits still don't stay on the screen long enough. You still have to be pretty quick with the old fingers.”
“When you are typing in a channel number the digits still don't stay on the screen long enough. You still have to be pretty quick with the old fingers.
”
It's always been like that. Luckily I almost never use the numbers, but my father in law does and he often has to have a few goes.
It's very annoying when you do want to do that. I use it very rarely, myself.
It's also very inconsistent.
They are absurdly quick to get some very small digits off the screen and yet the stupid info bar stays there forever (well, 5 seconds
).
It's also very inconsistent.
They are absurdly quick to get some very small digits off the screen and yet the stupid info bar stays there forever (well, 5 seconds
).
Originally Posted by Tern:
“It's very annoying when you do want to do that. I use it very rarely, myself.
It's also very inconsistent.”
“It's very annoying when you do want to do that. I use it very rarely, myself.
It's also very inconsistent.”
I find it becomes inconsitent when watching BBC channels as it seems that when the red button is being generated before display it stops any numbers being entered
Quote:
“They are absurdly quick to get some very small digits off the screen and yet the stupid info bar stays there forever (well, 5 seconds).”
“They are absurdly quick to get some very small digits off the screen and yet the stupid info bar stays there forever (well, 5 seconds
).”
why don't you adjust it? menu > settings > other > info display time
Originally Posted by Tern:
“It's very annoying when you do want to do that. I use it very rarely, myself.
It's also very inconsistent.
They are absurdly quick to get some very small digits off the screen and yet the stupid info bar stays there forever (well, 5 seconds).”
“It's very annoying when you do want to do that. I use it very rarely, myself.
It's also very inconsistent.
They are absurdly quick to get some very small digits off the screen and yet the stupid info bar stays there forever (well, 5 seconds
).”
You think you have it bad? mine stays on the screen for 20 seconds. (if I let it)
I think it must be related to that even dafter conflicting programs screen message which seemed to flash on and off the screen so quickly that I didn't have time to read it - I set the display for 20 seconds (maximum) - as Gaseous has just suggested, which does help but there seems to be a knock on effect on the info bar?
Patrick
Originally Posted by froxfieldrover:
“You think you have it bad? mine stays on the screen for 20 seconds. (if I let it)
I think it must be related to that even dafter conflicting programs screen message which seemed to flash on and off the screen so quickly that I didn't have time to read it - I set the display for 20 seconds (maximum) - as Gaseous has just suggested, which does help but there seems to be a knock on effect on the info bar?
Patrick”
“You think you have it bad? mine stays on the screen for 20 seconds. (if I let it)
I think it must be related to that even dafter conflicting programs screen message which seemed to flash on and off the screen so quickly that I didn't have time to read it - I set the display for 20 seconds (maximum) - as Gaseous has just suggested, which does help but there seems to be a knock on effect on the info bar?
Patrick”
Patrick,
I don't think the conflict message is driven by that setting.
AFAICS, it stays on screen until the conflict resolves itself (often happens when you get an early start/late finish with a few seconds overlap), you do something, or up to a minute if you do nothing then it will cancel the new reservation (or swap channel if that was the conflict).
Rgds.
Les.
Originally Posted by savvy:
“Patrick,
I don't think the conflict message is driven by that setting.
AFAICS, it stays on screen until the conflict resolves itself (often happens when you get an early start/late finish with a few seconds overlap), you do something, or up to a minute if you do nothing then it will cancel the new reservation (or swap channel if that was the conflict).
Rgds.
Les.”
“Patrick,
I don't think the conflict message is driven by that setting.
AFAICS, it stays on screen until the conflict resolves itself (often happens when you get an early start/late finish with a few seconds overlap), you do something, or up to a minute if you do nothing then it will cancel the new reservation (or swap channel if that was the conflict).
Rgds.
Les.”
Les - thanks for that, I will have to do more experiments with it then - at the time I was sure that the length of time it stayed on the screen increased after I changed that setting...although from what you say that observation might have been chance and due to the variable nature of the message!
Patrick
Originally Posted by GaseousClay:
“why don't you adjust it? menu > settings > other > info display time”
“why don't you adjust it? menu > settings > other > info display time
”
Sadly, it doesn't work.
You can change the setting but it doesn't make a scrap of difference to how long the stupid thing stays on the screen.
This is the sort of thing they should have been fixing instead of fannying around with the iplayer.
Edit: I didn't try increasing the persistence time so that may work. You just can't set it to get rid of the thing in less than ~5 seconds.
Originally Posted by froxfieldrover:
“Les - thanks for that, I will have to do more experiments with it then - at the time I was sure that the length of time it stayed on the screen increased after I changed that setting...although from what you say that observation might have been chance and due to the variable nature of the message!
Patrick”
“Les - thanks for that, I will have to do more experiments with it then - at the time I was sure that the length of time it stayed on the screen increased after I changed that setting...although from what you say that observation might have been chance and due to the variable nature of the message!
Patrick”
I found that the message on screen disapears as soon as there is no longer a conflict to resolve
Originally Posted by Tern:
“Sadly, it doesn't work.
You can change the setting but it doesn't make a scrap of difference to how long the stupid thing stays on the screen.
This is the sort of thing they should have been fixing instead of fannying around with the iplayer.
Edit: I didn't try increasing the persistence time so that may work. You just can't set it to get rid of the thing in less than ~5 seconds.”
“Sadly, it doesn't work.
You can change the setting but it doesn't make a scrap of difference to how long the stupid thing stays on the screen.
This is the sort of thing they should have been fixing instead of fannying around with the iplayer.
Edit: I didn't try increasing the persistence time so that may work. You just can't set it to get rid of the thing in less than ~5 seconds.”
It works perfectly on mine I've always had mine set at 3 secs, just tried it at 1 sec, and disabled it completely no problem.
Originally Posted by froxfieldrover:
“Les - thanks for that, I will have to do more experiments with it then - at the time I was sure that the length of time it stayed on the screen increased after I changed that setting...although from what you say that observation might have been chance and due to the variable nature of the message!
Patrick”
“Les - thanks for that, I will have to do more experiments with it then - at the time I was sure that the length of time it stayed on the screen increased after I changed that setting...although from what you say that observation might have been chance and due to the variable nature of the message!
Patrick”
Patrick,
Also, I have found that often I have waited and waited, hoping for it to resolve itself within the minute, and the screen disappears, but the box is still recording the 2 that caused the conflict, so by implication it has had to cancel the new reservation. Then, one of those finally finishes, and miraculously the box picks up the new reservation that you thought would have failed. Again, from observation, if this happens within another minute of the screen disappearing, it recovers OK.
I think that's pretty impressive, actually. Hope I have explained this clearly enough.
Rgds.
Les.
Originally Posted by GaseousClay:
“It works perfectly on mine I've always had mine set at 3 secs, just tried it at 1 sec, and disabled it completely no problem.”
“It works perfectly on mine I've always had mine set at 3 secs, just tried it at 1 sec, and disabled it completely no problem.”
Are you talking about the 'progress bar' (as opposed to the information boxes) that you get when you press FF, Rew, pause, Skip Forward, Skip Back, or Play?
Had this worked on my box I doubt if this problem would have even existed for me.
Originally Posted by Tern:
“Are you talking about the 'progress bar' (as opposed to the information boxes) that you get when you press FF, Rew, pause, Skip Forward, Skip Back, or Play? ”
“Are you talking about the 'progress bar' (as opposed to the information boxes) that you get when you press FF, Rew, pause, Skip Forward, Skip Back, or Play? ”
The i plate from pressing the i button
Originally Posted by GaseousClay:
“The i plate from pressing the i button”
“The i plate from pressing the i button”
I was talking about the info bar, not the info box/plate.
Interestingly the info box on my box stays up indefinitely (well, over 30 seconds). However, I actually expect to turn that off manually because that's how I turned it on.
The info bar, OTOH is fine to come on and stay there during FF, Rew and pause, but a right pain at other times.
