Faust - 1 hour ago »
Geoff_T - 34 minutes ago »
Faust - 8 minutes ago »
Geoff_T -
I'm not talking about bugs, although my 1100s had plenty of those, I'm talking about the way the system operates. I found the 1100s very unintuitive and long winded. It seems they made a conscious decision not to use the coloured buttons on the remote for anything in the menus. This means almost every action requires more button presses than the equivalent on Sky. A good example is simply deleting the program you have just watched on planner. It's one button press on the yellow button on Sky, but several on the 1100s (OK,down,down,select,confirm IIRC). To be fair, the HDR FOX T2 isn't much better for that but elsewhere it's menu system is much clearer and more intuitive than the 1100s in my opinion. The 1100s system has the feel of being designed to look pretty ahead of being usable. A perfect example of style over substance.
I hear what you say and some of this is true. However, the one button press (yellow) on the Sky box was/is in my opinion not a good thing. I can't tell you how many times the wrong programme was deleted by accident when we had Sky. The 'are you sure' prompt is a much better fail safe device IMO. You can have the one button delete on our Youview box or you can opt fro a 'prompt' as well. I have set mine up for the additional 'prompt'.
But if you deleted the wrong program on Sky it is not a problem because it just goes into the deleted area and can be retrieved. That is the perfect solution I think - make it easy to do, but reversible. I've added a [deleted] folder on my HDR using the custom firmware for just that reason. You can set how long they stay there before actually being deleted.
That was only on the later boxes. It didn't work on our old 'silver' Sky+ box. When it was gone it was gone.
I know it was a feature that was added to our box via an update, but that was some while back.
But the 1100s is the very latest Freesat box, I had expected it would take all of the good features of it's own predecessors and those of it's competitors. In my opinion though it is worse than both my 3 year old SkyHD box and my 7 year old HDR Fox T2.
I'd also love to know how the daft "led shining down on the surface below the box" got approval too. You can imagine the meeting -
Design Meeting Chairman "OK chaps we need a way to indicate to the user what mode the box is in".
Mr Sensible Engineer "So a small but easily visible LED on the front panel, maybe in the form of a circle like we've done before or maybe simple red and blue dots?"
Mr Style Guru "Na sooooooooooo boring and last century! Let's put an LED underneath the unit shining down like the Blue LEDs under the back of my Citroën Saxo."
Mr Sensible Engineer "But then visibility will depend entirely on what type of surface it is on and it will be very hard to see under many lighting conditions"
Mr Style Guru "But it's cool guy, who cares if it works?"
Design Meeting Chairman "I like it, we need to be down with the kids, so that's agreed. Now how can we make the menus so unfriendly only a 14 year old geek can follow them?"
| Sat 11 Feb 2017 14:25:43
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