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Jul 11, 2007View in Crawl 4
Don't forget AT&T U-verse. Their Motorola boxes use WinCE. What a piece of crap. It crashes all the time. Without user intervention or with. Give me the remote, I can make it crash. When you select a recorded show to watch sometimes all you get is a black screen. Rebooting it a couple times sometimes solves it but not always. It can get amazingly unresponsive and without a manual reboot will crash. Some recorded shows do not even show up in your list until you reboot it. When you see black boxes where the menu text should be, you know the system is about to take a big dump. Of course every time it crashes it takes for ever to reboot.When I'm searching through the guide, why on earth does it stop downloading the channel feed!? I have to wait every 5 clicks for it to get the next 3 hours worth of channels. Store it locally and continuously download it in the background when I'm on the guide for crying out loud!On the good side the UI is pretty good. However, I'm sure some upper management suit decided to use there clip art collection for the horrible choice of graphics used throughout the system. I'm also able to program recorded shows from the web via some Yahoo! portal, but I have to login to their systems twice just to get to it. Funny how every time I try to mention something nice about it, there is a big BUTT after it.
gorelogJul 12, 2007
Don't forget AT&T U-verse. Their Motorola boxes use WinCE. What a piece of crap. It crashes all the time. Without user intervention or with. Give me the remote, I can make it crash. When you select a recorded show to watch sometimes all you get is a black screen. Rebooting it a couple times sometimes solves it but not always. It can get amazingly unresponsive and without a manual reboot will crash. Some recorded shows do not even show up in your list until you reboot it. When you see black boxes where the menu text should be, you know the system is about to take a big dump. Of course every time it crashes it takes for ever to reboot.When I'm searching through the guide, why on earth does it stop downloading the channel feed!? I have to wait every 5 clicks for it to get the next 3 hours worth of channels. Store it locally and continuously download it in the background when I'm on the guide for crying out loud!On the good side the UI is pretty good. However, I'm sure some upper management suit decided to use there clip art collection for the horrible choice of graphics used throughout the system. I'm also able to program recorded shows from the web via some Yahoo! portal, but I have to login to their systems twice just to get to it. Funny how every time I try to mention something nice about it, there is a big BUTT after it.
tapoJul 12, 2007
No, Microsoft created the Ultimate TV, a hybrid WebTV/DirectTV Reciever/PVR. I own one, it's pretty bad.
obkenobiJul 12, 2007
Microsoft scumbags.
obkenobiJul 12, 2007
Trolls.
chris9902Jul 12, 2007
If anyone somebody could combine BitTorrent and an AppleTV style product.
idonthackJul 13, 2007
What the f**k man? You have five replies in a row, counting this one. Half of them say the exact same thing.