She's still routing an old converter box into a VCR for recording, Fer God's Sake. But if you're running a HomeWorx with version 5.0 through 5.3, I see no reason not to go ahead and upgrade to 5.4.8.Ĭlick to expand.I've been thinking of getting a 2nd box like this for my sister who lives out in the country with no dish or internet access. This causes channels to unpredictably rescan themselves when you tune to them, bringing back any deleted channels and losing any customizations, such as moved, renamed, skipped, or favorite subchannels. (It goes away in a few seconds.) A bigger problem is that HomeWorx still hasn't squashed the frustrating "channel rescan bug " something iView fixed a year ago. One minor bug, which I've seen on iView too: Sometimes when you change the channel, a "0" pops up as if you had pressed the 0 button on the remote. Terk makes a clone of these boxes with 12-hour time as the only option (and Terk shares iView's bug of sometimes displaying 00 for noon or midnight). Luckily, you can leave or turn it off if you don't like it. One drawback, though, is that there aren't many characters left on the EPG screen for the show title, so you end up with titles like "The Last Ma." In cases like that, you have to move the cursor down to a show to find out what it is. If turned on, 12-hour time is even used in naming recordings, so your recording filename will contain, say, 0600PM vs. Also, HomeWorx displays 12 consistently for the noon and midnight hours. Second, in 12-hour mode, iView's EPG is confusing: only the "end" time has an AM/PM suffix, but it's actually for the start time! So if you see 11:30-12:30am on the iView, that actually means 11:30am-12:30pm, as the HomeWorx EPG would read. First, iView's menu option reads "Time Type" with values of "Save 12" and "Save 24" The HomeWorx menu option reads "Switch for 12H" with values of On and Off, which makes more sense, at least to those of us whose native language is English.
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Iview has had 12-hour time for a while, but the HomeWorx version is better in a couple of ways.
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Main new feature is a 12-hour time option, something HomeWorx users have been asking about since the HW-150 first came out. I did confirm that closed captions work both during live viewing and playback of a recording. Trying out HW-150 firmware version 5.4.8.