Slow new menus

On DStv, you mean ?

Must've had a software upgrade.

I noticed them either on Wednesday or Thursday morning last week.

I think one reason they're slower, is that when you select TV GUIDE , then any one of options 1 - 8, thereafter scroll a week ahead in any channel & press the ''i'' button, the selected programme details appear; whereas before, they were only showing-up for max of 24 hours ahead.
In that respect, I prefer it, even if slower; however, DStv are still useless in this regard!

Overseas (sure you know?), you can view the pic./get the sound of the channel you're watching on the left & scroll through what's on the other channels at the same time.
 
Smurfatefrog said:
Are you referring to those new Spur menus? They are terrible hey
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Lol, sorry. Talking about the DSTV menu. It is really slow after the update, but seems like those annoying lines I had above the picture is now gone as well!!!
 
well not only slow but setting reminders are a bugger-up too
 
but navigating through menus are not fast at all. not good!:cry:
 
This is the response from Multichoice on their forum:

Slow Channel Grid on New 11xx Series Software
Just thought I should respond to concerns raised by forumites regarding the sudden slow response of the channel grid.

This issue was highlighted during the qualification of the software and was flagged as an issue that subscribers won't be impressed with. An initial investigation on this issue indicated that the sudden slow response in the channel grid is introduced by the implementation of the Favourites functionality on this 11xx series software architecture. The interaction between the different software components that were modified to implement this functionality, and the processing that is done at an application level to support Favourites, are all contributors to this slow grid response.

The 11xx series decoder software is based on the same old architecture as the old 6xx and 7xx decoders. We are confident that we will be able to improve on this soon but this will require that the entire software architecture be re-visited, to identify those components in the software stack that can be tweaked to help improve this. We are planning to get going with this exercise as early as Q1 2012.

We couldn't delay this software deployment because of this issue. There are a whole lot of other important improvements in this software (e.g. 8 day Guide and 8 day Synopsis, XtraView improvements, ARC, etc) that we had to release to our subscribers.

I request that you please bear with us while we work on this.

Thanks
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Thanks for update Greggle... At least I know they are going to improve on it
 
Type RSA said:
Thanks for update Greggle... At least I know they are going to improve on it
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Reports are that there are a number of issues with remotes and remote blasters following the latest 1110 and 1131 software update. MC's Response to that is:

If you use the remote that came with your decoder, you will have no problem at all. However, if you use a remote from an older model decoder (not the DSD 1131 or DSD 1110), you either need to dig out the remote that came with your decoder or you need to purchase a new remote.

New remotes can be bought from Kalahari online.

The software download that happened last week to DSD1110 and DSD 1131 decoders included critical maintenance and introduced new functionality such as favourites and an 8-day TV guide.

We do try to make all decoders compatible with all remotes but unfortunately due to new communications protocols it was not possible to do that in this case. We do recommend that you always use the remote that came with your decoder.

Having said all of that, we would like to apologise to all subscribers who were inconvenienced by these changes.
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Greggle said:
Reports are that there are a number of issues with remotes and remote blasters following the latest 1110 and 1131 software update. MC's Response to that is:
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Then give me a choice whether I want to 'upgrade' or not.
 
The latest software upgrade seems more buggy than ever. Keep getting errors, more so than before.
 
PseudZ said:
The latest software upgrade seems more buggy than ever. Keep getting errors, more so than before.
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I have not experienced any problems yet and have to say that I am enjoying the new 'favourites' functionality as well as the new 'ARC3'! And no, I dont work for MC! LOL!
 
Has anyone else experienced sound problems since the new software upgrade?

Every so often it seems as if the audio lags then stops for a split second and carries on again. It get's very annoying.
 
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