MikeGibbs - 6 minutes ago »
Many thanks, Andy, for the suggestion but why would I want to risk 400+ GB of recordings or my wife's sanity by changing to any of these later versions?
The risk in upgrading to 1.02.32 is tiny but I agree the advantages are not enormous. Our box has run 1.02.32 since it was available without problem.
I have had my T2 since almost day one and upgrading has never been an issue, I even went for 1.03.06 after I saw it was stable for a few days on the old hardware. I am glad I did as iPlayer and YouTube are so much better it solved a few issues with these. I even went for the custom firmware along the way and have never had an issue installing that from a USB, you just need to watch you have the right version as it patches the firmware not replaces it. At least it did in the early days. With the custom firmware you can set up things like background decrypt etc. to make you like easier.
Andy
Ok, ok!
BUT I've read of some people who've had to send their box off to Humax to be re-flashed! ...all for a bit better YouTube; only not in their case.
...and iPlayer is fine on 1.02.20. YouTube isn't, I agree, but do the improvements mean that it'll play .flv's now?
BTW; I think we're getting off topic.
MikeGibbs - 22 minutes ago »
BUT I've read of some people who've had to send their box off to Humax to be re-flashed! ...all for a bit better YouTube; only not in their case.
The only cases I can recollect are people who attempted to downgrade from 1.03.06 before it was known that the tuner hardware had changed. If you don't wish to upgrade that is fine but please don't try and create a myth that there is a risk involved.
Martin Liddle - 7 hours ago » If you don't wish to upgrade that is fine but please don't try and create a myth that there is a risk involved.
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Yes... it does look that way, I'm sorry I didn't mean to start creating myths.
I'm an oldie who's worked with computers since I was at uni in the 1960's (yes we did have computers that long ago). I'm sure that you've heard the old adage
If it isn't broken don't try to fix itI can't tell you how many times over the years I've fallen foul of this very wise saying. So, for me 1.02.20 records, plays, skips over the acursed adverts, allows us to stream stuff from iPlayer if we forget to set a recording up and, even, watch some music videos on YouTube if we get sufficiently pissed; so why would we even consider upgrading?
Sorry, again, about the negativness of my posts; if people need things which upgrades provide then go for it; if you don't my advice is leave it alone.
Mike.
As I mentioned in #16 this thread is getting off topic.
What I'd really like to understand is why the code which implements entering standby mode could be confused by any of the above suggestions; to recap:
To my mind the standby code would only need to close any open files, come out of any menus and then go to sleep until a timer goes off to start a recording or the user wakes it up.
Does anyone know why it would be checking space, bad sectors, file name protocols, ...; it makes no sense to me.
Mike.
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