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[arboristman]

report your pvr results here.
let us know what hard drive your using.how easy it is to setup and use.your likes and dislikes about recording and any limitations features/missing features of everything having to do with the personal video recording of the 360 premier please.

[baltimorechip]

just to add, haven't used the PVR yet, but after the latest bin, 1 of the options, PVR SETTING has been removed! not a good start for the new 360P

[baby07]

Hi,
When i turn off the power, the time Flashes if you look at carefully, why?

[goober55]

• When I try to record, it records for about 5 min then the picture freezes. I stop the recording & try to play back the little that it did record & it wont play it. Tried multiple hard drives

• Also when you use pause, then hit play in timeshift, shouldn't you be able to fast forward ? Mine does not respond to hitting the fast forward button on the remote.

• "DVR Settiings" still has not reappeared in the DVR menu. Was there originally when I got the box, this allows you to change from manual to auto timeshift. The very first bin erased this from the menu. I am using the latest bin & did do the clean sys file also & followed those steps, but am still having the problems listed above.

[powerx86]

I now am back from traveling and have been playing with this receiver and I like it better than the CW800 I got rid of.

EPG - Superior to the CW800 and close to the Coolsat 7000s/Visionsat IV200. It like the Coolsat/Visionsat has a feature to look at 1 channel listings (hitting Blue button while in EPG mode), but the EPG displayed for this feature only shows a couple of hours - even though the guide is populated beyond 2 hours(actually several days).
The EPG is nice - but wanted to know if any User knows what the arrows left/right of the date can be utilized. For instance it shows the date June 6 and I see these arrows - I wonder can you move the date to another day instead of cursoring or I guess you hit the Next day or Previous day colored buttons. It just make you think you can tab up there and change the day. Just a nit but it makes you think that it can be used with Cursor keys. No complaints nice to be able to move to another day with the click of the colored button. CW800 with KROUND code is sorely missing this feature - User must cursor thru the guide to get to next day very very slow.

USB button - I am not sure why you hit this button it has to read the contents of the USB Storage has to be re-read. This is very slow for a machine that has wonderful specs. My Coolsat/Visionsat receiver instantly reads contents and gives you a directory listing. The CW800 also read very quickly. It at least takes up to 5-10 seconds and displays a message "gathering information". This is painful because it does it everytime. I basically am using same drive from Coolsat/Visionsat which has a FAT32 format(Seagate external 320GB). This is annoying especially when looking to play something recorded.
Another annoying thing that I would hope that was added to this receiver was when the User was browsing their recorded list, is that the User could hit info button on the recorded show and get the same info that came from the guide. This is not their just like the CW800 PVR - but at least on PPVs the title of the PPV is the title of the movie - not like the CW800 which just shows PPV in title and no info on what it is. The 360 Premeir is much better than the CW800 in this regard but falls short again to the Coolsat/Visionsat PVRs. I keep referring to the Coolsat/visionsat PVRs - because testing these different receivers makes me appreciate how close they got to TIVO/Time Warner DVR/PVRs.
USB ports - nice to have 2 ports but I think this thing acts like one. It appears they do not co-exists at the same time. The User must choose which one to activate and it would be nice if the Receiver automatically would pop up the dir list of the files when USB Storage is plugged in. At least for the front of the unit. My suggestion would be to use the front to load code and the rear for PVR USB Storage. Again, would be a nice feature to whenever the User plugged in the front panel USB the dirlist would come up automatically and ask the User what to do or the User could take appropriate action.

I will not make this post to long - I will write more on this receiver as I review the options.

Overall - this receiver is a much nicer receiver than the CW800 that I just got rid of - but I have learned every receiver has it's quirks and shortcomings and clear advantages, but right now I feel this receiver is worth keeping for contiuned testing.

[powerx86]

Here are some things they have done good/great:

Search - Very Nice Search facility when you hit the Green Button. It is cool by default looks like it brings up all movies first, then you can put a program name for what program you want to search for.

Search by hitting the Magnify key by the SAT Button - here you can search for a channel - very nice.

SAT Radio - has built in Screen Saver - plus info button shows track playing!!!

Setup - Like that I can use the SAT Setup and choose favorite SATs - sometimes hard looking thru list and this checkmark helps. Also like the way you can SORT by frequency or alphabetical.

Channel Edit - Not sure why there is no Channel Skip - just see delete rename and lock. Not sure why this is there - I use it so I do not have to rescan for channels - I just add skipped channels back that weree previously skipped.

Time shifting is annoying with the current code - Basically it looks like all u can do is hit pause. I hit the pause button and it always checks 1st to see if there is enough disk space - suggestion here would be to do it like the NORW group with setting aside disk space for dumping video/audio to file when time shifting instead of allocating when the
User 1st pushes the button. Coolsat/Visionsat still have everybody beat here and they allow you to move backward and forward on a time shift using << >> plus cursor keys. It looks like all I have available is pause with this new code? Does anybody know if that is the way it works for the 360 P??? The CW800 is pause is a clumsy also but it allows u to go backward/forward. Again, if they allocate the diskspace before hand and just write to file when changing channels this would be world's better or more like a TIVo/TimeWarner PVR/DVR.

Again - I think this is a nice receiver but it can be better based on its specs. It needs some work on TimeShifting and less checking of USB Storage when up storage listing.

[hammer2]

Just bought one a week ago still locking up my pan### works great. NOT LOOKING GOOD AT ALL.

[jesfknkrys]

The Premier has recorded every show I've programmed. Have not had any issues with the PVR fuction as of yet. The Premier only Fast Forwards and Rewinds at one speed. I was having trouble with receiver reading the HDD. I figured out that the HDD has to be plugged in while the reciver is on for it to read.

[Allan23]

Just got my SV 360PVR P yesterday put new fix in and down load the satellites and recorded my first movie no problems here .why do they tell you to download 119 first

[SystemDude]

Originally Posted by Allan23

Just got my SV 360PVR P yesterday put new fix in and down load the satellites and recorded my first movie no problems here.

PVR was a priority for me in choosing the 360, and I have not regretted the choice. Congrats on your success.

Originally Posted by Allan23

why do they tell you to download 119 first

I think it's an urban myth. My dealer told me to do 110 first. As long as you get both with good quality, then it's right.

[cruncher]

recently acquired sonicview 360 premier, and I am pleased with the performance. although I am having some issues with recording.
as some of you have experienced, my unit for some reason will record for around five to 15 minutes, and then freeze up! This seems to occur whether I set the unit to automatically record, or I just press the record button. I am using a Maxtor 75GB external hard drive. the strange thing is, when I first got the unit, everything worked properly, and I was able to record a couple of half-hour shows without any glitches. I have also experimented with recording straight onto USB sticks, and this seems to work without any problems. I would appreciate any suggestions to see if I can get recording bugs worked out.
The Crunch Man!
PS: in order for me to safely remove a USB device from the unit, I have been simply turning the unit off from the switch on the back before removing a USB device. is this acceptable? Should I be doing this a different way? What is the proper method? Thanks again.