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[FynrDzynr]

Thanks for that - just didn't realize there were more options further down. 250GB USB drive is out of a lappy that got nuked in a storm. 4 partitions but all that's displayed is the partition size followed by the disk model (HTS545045B9A300) Looks like I'll be doing some housekeeping plugged into the new lappy so I can be certain where I'm archiving them!
If only the firmware was smart enough to display the Volume name . . . would make life so much simpler

[charlie_bird]

I have had my magic PVR for a couple of weeks now and really think its great! Love it.

I still haven't been able to get the wireless working though. The dongle seems to be ok; it sees the broadcast SSID for the home network. My router is a Billion 7404VGP, wireless is configured as WEP64 open system. The pass key is Key 1 and I'm using 10 hex digits.

I have factory defaulted the unit and am running the latest released firmware (5.08). I'm also certain that the passphrase is entered correctly. When I try to connect I see the light on the dongle flashing but after a few minutes I get a failed to connect message. The signal is about 3 bars...

Appreciate if WKLIE can comment on this setup or a path forward. Thanks

oh BTW it may help others, I did find that my unit shipped with "non-default" settings. ie defaulting the box, changed quite a few settings to what I received out of the box from Jungle jumble.

[mwd]

Not much help to you I know but it looks like you are doing everything right mine took a few minutes to log onto the wireless router but has been solid since then. Two suggestions to try 1) try adding the MAC address (WIFI) System>System Info into the network settings of your router.

Or you could add a static address from System>Network. you would need to input Subnet mask Gateway address and DNS Address. You get these from the network info in your router. Check out Page 68 of the manual

One other thing make sure your security password is entered correctly i.e. letters can be Capitals or lower case.
I know from experience it is dead easy to put the wrong case for the letters.

[wklie]

 charlie_bird, on 13 May 2012 - 07:47 AM, said:

I still haven't been able to get the wireless working though. The dongle seems to be ok; it sees the broadcast SSID for the home network. My router is a Billion 7404VGP, wireless is configured as WEP64 open system. The pass key is Key 1 and I'm using 10 hex digits.

Use WPA if possible.  Magic TV support for WPA is better than for WEP.

If possible, try to experiment with moving the Magic TV and/or the WiFi router such that they are in a direct line of sight without obstacles or even walls.

[Tassie Devil]

A minor annoyance with MAGIC no 2.  I have been using the Xbox 360 remote codes with them on an HTM Aeros programmable but sometimes, using 3 or 4 to skip causes the audio to be lost so the recording has to be stopped and resumed.  It is not a case of poor "learning" on the Aeros as the data for the codes was obtained from the net.

So, I looking at switching to the codes for the MCE remote instead.  I seem to recall someone recently located one of these remotes at a very good price & it worked like a charm.  Anyone know the best source of one of these MCE remotes cheaper than the $28 to $32 so far discovered on the net.?  I see by Googling that there are actually two different versions of the MCE but I presume the MAGIC uses the later version - correct?  A heap of the different remotes is shown at  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MCE_Remote

Not urgent but I guess I should move in the direction of MCE.

John

[RedDog]

 Tassie Devil, on 13 May 2012 - 02:26 PM, said:

  I seem to recall someone recently located one of these remotes at a very good price & it worked like a charm.  Anyone know the best source of one of these MCE remotes cheaper than the $28 to $32 so far discovered on the net.? John

Try this one http://www.ebay.com....984.m1423.l2649

[Tassie Devil]

 RedDog, on 13 May 2012 - 02:43 PM, said:

Try this one http://www.ebay.com....984.m1423.l2649

Thanks heaps.  A steal with free postage!!!!  Ordered & paid for.

Isn't this site & the guys lurking here great!!

John

[bobster05]

I have noticed a problem with my magic. On some of my recordings the audio is high pitched not sure if it is a reception issue has happened on win, prime and 7mate. Has anyone else noticed this with recorded shows?

[hibatchi]

 Tassie Devil, on 13 July 2011 - 08:40 AM, said:

The only minor downside I have seen is a tendency for too much red in some complexions giving a "ruddy" appearance.  Puzzling as it is not on all faces and is not always evident so is not a significant negative.

I'm finding this to be a problem now I've upgraded to a Panasonic plasma. Some of the reds look very maroon or pink, and nothing like real reds. The easiest way to spot it was with the Ferrari cars on the F1 coverage (aside from the pinkish faces). If I use the TVs tuner then everything looks normal colour wise. But through the Magic the reds look terrible. Changing the from RGB to the other option as suggested before made no difference, I ended up having to change from THX mode to Proffessional 1 and set higher red colours manually.

It's a shame because I think this PVR is fantastic and probably the only remotely negative thing I could say about it.

[Tassie Devil]

 hibatchi, on 13 May 2012 - 09:35 PM, said:

I'm finding this to be a problem now I've upgraded to a Panasonic plasma. Some of the reds look very maroon or pink, and nothing like real reds. The easiest way to spot it was with the Ferrari cars on the F1 coverage (aside from the pinkish faces). If I use the TVs tuner then everything looks normal colour wise. But through the Magic the reds look terrible. Changing the from RGB to the other option as suggested before made no difference, I ended up having to change from THX mode to Proffessional 1 and set higher red colours manually.

It's a shame because I think this PVR is fantastic and probably the only remotely negative thing I could say about it.

I found this at first.  Easy fix,.  Go into MENU VIDEO and alter Image mode or in Advanced settings alter the HDMI color space setting until you see a picture colour what you like.  It might be a case of also changing the Color/video setting on your TV.

John (about to go to bed)

[rogers]

 hibatchi, on 13 May 2012 - 09:35 PM, said:

I'm finding this to be a problem now I've upgraded to a Panasonic plasma. Some of the reds look very maroon or pink, and nothing like real reds. The easiest way to spot it was with the Ferrari cars on the F1 coverage (aside from the pinkish faces). If I use the TVs tuner then everything looks normal colour wise. But through the Magic the reds look terrible. Changing the from RGB to the other option as suggested before made no difference, I ended up having to change from THX mode to Proffessional 1 and set higher red colours manually.

It's a shame because I think this PVR is fantastic and probably the only remotely negative thing I could say about it.

I PM'd John about this the other day having just set up the Magic I bought some time ago. I also have a Panasonic plasma (older V series) and I tried switching between the "black enhancement" and the HDMI "RGB and the other setting which I can't remember".  They didn't seem to make much difference. I ended up changing the colour setting on the tv set up menu. The 3 PVR's (Beyon wiz P1, Panasonic DMR-XW350 and Magic) all look much the same on the screen now.

I really like this PVR, there are things the BW does slightly better, but overall I think the Magic is excellent value for money. Have recomended the unit to a number of friends and they are very happy with it too. Thanks againg to John for getting this whole thing started.

[wklie]

 Tassie Devil, on 13 May 2012 - 02:26 PM, said:

A minor annoyance with MAGIC no 2.  I have been using the Xbox 360 remote codes with them on an HTM Aeros programmable but sometimes, using 3 or 4 to skip causes the audio to be lost so the recording has to be stopped and resumed.

Please experiment with turning off Timeshift Instant Rewind and see if there's any improvement.

[Tassie Devil]

Just had a look at the menu options but am puzzled about what you are suggesting as I could not find that option to turn on or off!!

John

[hibatchi]

 Tassie Devil, on 13 May 2012 - 11:20 PM, said:

I found this at first.  Easy fix,.  Go into MENU VIDEO and alter Image mode or in Advanced settings alter the HDMI color space setting until you see a picture colour what you like.  It might be a case of also changing the Color/video setting on your TV.

As I mentioned I changed HDMI colour space from from RGB to YCbCr and it's had minimal to no difference. I can live with it, not worth changing colour settings on my TV over, just a little annoying.

[mwd]

 hibatchi, on 14 May 2012 - 06:36 PM, said:

As I mentioned I changed HDMI colour space from from RGB to YCbCr and it's had minimal to no difference. I can live with it, not worth changing colour settings on my TV over, just a little annoying.

TVs out of the box have horrible colour designed to capture your eye in the showroom. I have a Pio Kuro and the picture from the Magic is superb. You may find some time adjusting the colours will reap rewards on all inputs not just the PVR. I use YCbCR and find it to be better but the difference is miniscule.

[wklie]

 Tassie Devil, on 14 May 2012 - 02:41 PM, said:

Just had a look at the menu options but am puzzled about what you are suggesting as I could not find that option to turn on or off!!

I think it's Settings -> Timeshift Setup -> Instant Rewind -> Off.

(Should have replied much earlier but the forum went down just before I tried to post.)

Edited by wklie, 15 May 2012 - 01:35 AM.

[Tassie Devil]

 wklie, on 15 May 2012 - 01:35 AM, said:

I think it's Settings -> Timeshift Setup -> Instant Rewind -> Off.

(Should have replied much earlier but the forum went down just before I tried to post.)

Found it thanks - dunno how it was missed before.  There are a couple of other odd remote responses that maybe this will fix.  If not I'll try:

1. see how it behaves with the other remote when it arrives.
2. upgrade from 5,07 to 5.08 (should do this anyway - assuming there is a difference)
3. factory reset, rescan etc

If all that fails then maybe it is faulty and should be returned but I'll try to avoid that.

The power company are plunging us into darkness from 9 until 3 later today so I will not be able to play around with it until later.  The outside thermometer says it is 0.8C now so just as well we have a wood heater

John

[wklie]

 Tassie Devil, on 15 May 2012 - 07:19 AM, said:

Found it thanks - dunno how it was missed before.  There are a couple of other odd remote responses that maybe this will fix.  If not I'll try:

1. see how it behaves with the other remote when it arrives.
2. upgrade from 5,07 to 5.08 (should do this anyway - assuming there is a difference)
3. factory reset, rescan etc

I didn't realize that you haven't upgraded to 5.08 yet.  Please upgrade it first.  I'm hoping that maybe the odd missing recordings you've experienced with 5.07 beta will vanish with this upgrade.  If you see any odd problems, please factory reset it.

[mwd]

Everybody with a Magic 4000 should update to firmware 5.08. Most of the previous bugs seem to have been ironed out.
The main annoyance in my eyes was the i-plate current programme information and mini -EPG which now shows current show information and not the old data.

I have been playing with the editing function to cut out ad breaks in recordings and found it works very well and easy to use.
Not as good a exporting into VideoReDo but still quite acceptable brings movies down to about 1.5hrs instead of 3+ including ads.
For normal shows the skip function is ideal.

[Nightblade]

EDIT:  The problem was brain-fade lol, everything working fine!

Edited by Nightblade, 15 May 2012 - 03:22 PM.

[bobster05]

 mwd, on 15 May 2012 - 01:31 PM, said:

Everybody with a Magic 4000 should update to firmware 5.08. Most of the previous bugs seem to have been ironed out.
The main annoyance in my eyes was the i-plate current programme information and mini -EPG which now shows current show information and not the old data.

I am still on 5.07 beta if I update it to 5.08 will I lose my timer settings? Will it fix my high pitched audio problems with some channels?

Edited by bobster05, 15 May 2012 - 02:14 PM.

[Tassie Devil]

Sigh, just upgraded the two of them to 5.08.  It appears it must be different to the 5.07 beta.

To be double sure with unit 2 I did a factory reset so that meant a rescan + reset timers (only needed 5 settings so that was not too hard - the MAGIC is just so easy in this dept) but only did an upgrade on the main unit so all timers etc stayed intact.

Just noted this thread started last July and has generated 44 pages in the last 10 months.    And most notably, most postings are not problems although there do seem to be a couple of odd one from individuals - BUT nothing general as we experienced on the Toppy 7000.  Apart from the multiple skip functions the biggest leap forward with the MAGIC is the correct labeling of recordings, although 60 minutes was not labelled correctly the last 2 times.  Cannot see why as it started on time (unusual) - maybe the fault of WIN.

John

[mwd]

 bobster05, on 15 May 2012 - 02:11 PM, said:

I am still on 5.07 beta if I update it to 5.08 will I lose my timer settings? Will it fix my high pitched audio problems with some channels?

No if you just update to 5.08 timers SHOULD remain untouched. You should really update to the latest stable version as betas tend to have a few bugs. Not sure it will fix your audio problems you will have to do some recordings to see.
If you get any weird problems that don't go away when you power off and reboot then a factory reset may fix it. See Tassie's post above.

Agree with John with regard to problems none have been major and with help from Wklie and 5.08 working like a dream now nothing at all to bitch about no missed timers and all names as per the EPG and the interface is so intuative it is so easy to copy and move files around.

Edited by mwd, 15 May 2012 - 04:33 PM.

[wklie]

 bobster05, on 15 May 2012 - 02:11 PM, said:

I am still on 5.07 beta if I update it to 5.08 will I lose my timer settings? Will it fix my high pitched audio problems with some channels?

Your settings will be retained in the upgrade (unless you also perform a factory reset after upgrade).

As for the high pitched audio problems, I'd like to ask:
- Which channels have high pitched audio?  Which of them do not?
- Does it occur when watching live TV only, or playing back recording programmes only, or both?
- What is the type of audio connection you have?  HDMI, analog white/red, optical, or coaxial?

If you are using HDMI audio, please try the analog white/red connection (together with component or composite video), and vice versa.

Edited by wklie, 15 May 2012 - 05:59 PM.

[bobster05]

 wklie, on 15 May 2012 - 04:46 PM, said:

Your settings will be retained in the upgrade (unless you also perform a factory reset after upgrade).

As for the high pitched audio problems, I'd like to ask:
- Which channels have high pitched audio?  Which of them do not?
- Does it occur when watching live TV only, or playing back recording programmes only, or both?
- What is the type of audio connection you have?  HDMI, analog white/red, optical, or coaxial?

If you are using HDMI audio, please try the analog white/red connection (together with component or composite video), and vice versa.

Thanks just did the upgrade all seems to have gone well still have timers etc. I have had the high pitched audio on recordings on channels win, prime and 7mate and have it connected to my pana plasma via hdmi. I will see if I still have the audio problem after the firmware update and let you know.