IMG 1.7 Experience
Justin46
Legend

As of this morning, Tuesday 9/29/2009, the new 1.7 level of the IMG is available in North Texas (and I presume also Calfornia). I thought perhaps it might be a good idea to have one thread where we can identify new, improved, or fixed items in the IMG.

I have not yet had time to really explore and see what is new, but here is what I know so far:

1) The level is 1.7 Build 09.82

2) It is on both my SD and HD STBs, although it took a call to the FSC and some time before it appeared on the HD DVR.

3) The STBs were left powered on last night, they were powered off after the update.

4) My Favorites survived the update intact.

5) My recordings on the DVR survived the update intact.

6) The Guide is still in 4:3 format, displaying 90 minutes of programming, don't really see any changes yet.

7) VOD works, seems to be slighter faster starting up, but that may be my imagination.

😎 I don't notice any changes to the Widgets, although I rarely use any of them.

That's about it for now. Hopefully others will chime in with their experience.

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Justin
Verizon FiOS TV, Internet, and phone
QIP6416, IMG 1.7, Build 09.82
Keller, TX 76248

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jvolino
Enthusiast - Level 2

I received the 1.7 update a few days ago and this seems to have resolved my issue with "green screen" connection failures over HDMI on my QIP-7216 home media DVR.  I briefly tested hooking up the STB directly to my 2009 TC-P42G10 Panasonic plasma TV and that worked (it didn't before) and then I moved it to go through my 2009 Onkyo TX-SR707 receiver and that's working, too, unlike before.

I do hope that eventually the 16:9 presentation won't merely be a stretched 4:3 view, as the text now doesn't look very attractive nor is the extra width being exploited.

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Caps09
Specialist - Level 2

My HDMI seems to be working now too, hopefully no more issues with the green screen. No caller ID option yet though for VHO9.

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prisaz
Legend

Anyone know if 1.7 does anything to the 2500 SD boxes? I guess I need to go up stairs and look to see if they got the push. My Tivo HD didn't. haha

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Jh28wd40
Enthusiast - Level 2

Well, I just received my new IMG on my HD STB. Now my STB is only showing a white with black text parental control menu.

I tried soft reset - no go

I tried the STB reset on the self support site - no go

I believe I will be calling for a new box tomorrow , it looks like I have a paper weight right now.

At least the other box survived no HD of course.

Josh 

Tampa

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justdigi
Contributor - Level 1

At 6AM this morning, my HD DVR did some kind of update, I assume 1.7.  The display showed a spinning cursor and dl for about 10 mins, then rebooted.

Now the box is almost a paperweight...  It comes on and gets a picture, but the display is stuck showing the channel number, channel changes take 10 or so seconds, the remote is nearly unresponsive (can't even use the channel numbers), and I can't get to the menu/recorded shows/etc.

Physically rebooting everything (STB & modem) didn't help. 

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justdigi
Contributor - Level 1

Ok, it wasn't 1.7 it was some generic 'IMG Update' according to the menu.

I finnaly got the box to respond by mashing buttons.  Eventually some kind of 'parental control' setup came up.  I set/cancelled that and still nothing. A few more buttons later and the box powered itself off, and the time display popped up.  Normal functions resumed.

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MadInFla
Newbie

Verizon tried downloading 1.7.1 version of the IMG in FL & PA. Didn't work for HD/HD-DVR boxes. They had to roll back the revision. I had no TV service for over 6 hours. Looks like they didn't test the new revision thoroughly, before they sprung it on the unsuspecting customers.

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Justin46
Legend
from 2/10/2010:

@MadInFla wrote:

Verizon tried downloading 1.7.1 version of the IMG in FL & PA. Didn't work for HD/HD-DVR boxes. They had to roll back the revision. I had no TV service for over 6 hours. Looks like they didn't test the new revision thoroughly, before they sprung it on the unsuspecting customers.


2/18/2010: Verizon apparently updated the IMG code to 1.7.1, Build 9.97 in PA and FL this morning. Hopefully this is an updated and better version of 1.7.1 than was downloaded on 2/10 to PA and FL. Anybody in these areas have any info about good/bad/new functions, etc?

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Justin
Verizon FiOS TV, Internet, and phone
QIP6416-P1, IMG 1.7C, Build 09.83
Keller, TX 76248

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stilholm
Enthusiast - Level 2

Got 1.7.1 around 5:00 p.m. today (2/18).  Can't say much about any other features, but the guide went back to 4:3 mode rather than filling up the screen on a 16:9 HDTV.

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demonstr8r
Enthusiast - Level 3

@stilholm wrote:

Got 1.7.1 around 5:00 p.m. today (2/18).  Can't say much about any other features, but the guide went back to 4:3 mode rather than filling up the screen on a 16:9 HDTV.


That's classic !!!

So many people were making claims in this forum that the move to stretch the guide in IMG 1.7 was in preparation for true 16:9 guide.  What a crock!

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sharpie958
Newbie

I want my 16:9 guide back.  This native format (4:3) with the 1.7.1 release stinks.

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mike_b1
Enthusiast - Level 1

SInce the 1.7 upgrade I get a du1 error whenever I turn on the dvr/stb.  The HDMI appears to now be an issue.

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matcarl
Master - Level 1

That's not an error code, it's supposed to do that.

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scorp081
Enthusiast - Level 1

@maxp:

I've been getting a ton of wrong programs recorded by my Tivo the past couple months. I wrote it off as Tivo having bad guide data, but now I want to try your test and see if I can change channels on the hour manually. Ughh.... this 1.7 has been atrocious overall!

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StuffOfInterest
Enthusiast - Level 3

I have a Motorola 7216 DVR hooked up to a Sony STR-DG1200 receiver which then goes on to a Sony BDP-S360 Blu-ray and KDL-46XBR9 TV.  Before the DVR came into the equation Sony Bravia Sync was allowing control over HDMI between the three Sony components.  When I first hooked the DVR up under IMG 1.6.2 there was absolute chaos with Bravia Sync.  Most of the control commands did not pass through or the behavior was unpredictable.  Even with Bravia Sync turned off I was having HDMI handshake issues between the DVR and receiver which would cause frequent video blackouts.  This finally let me to switch the DVR over to components, as was recommended by several people including Verizon representatives.

Fast forward to IMG 1.7.  After the DVR updated I decided to give it another go via HDMI.  At first things looked much better.  Most of the HDMI control commands would pass through and the HDMI handshake issues from the DVR to the receiver were gone.  Unfortunately, other issues became visible.  Some of the HDMI control signals are still getting lost, in particular volume control from the receiver using the TV's remote.  Additionally, it now appears that HDCP (copy protection) handshaking is now broken, between the Blu-ray player and the tuner!  With the DVR hooked up, the Blu-ray player will only send 2-channel audio to the receiver.  Once the DVR's HDMI cable is unplugged the Blu-ray player sends full 5.1 sounds again.

All of this has led me to switch back to component video with a digital audio feed.  Hopefully a future update will fix this once and for all as it bugs me to know end that I'm taking digital cable and converting it to analog video just to turn around and convert it back to digital for the run from the receiver up to the TV.

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ctmancix
Newbie

I have the 7216 HD-DVR that has recently been updated to Release 1.7 Build 09.83.  Prior to the update, my complaints were few…a few playback bugs like playback hanging, volume changing to very load near the end of a recorded program, brief audio dropouts.  Most of these were remedied by turning the unit off and back on.  

However, since receiving the 1.7 update, I'm ready to chuck the thing out the window.  My issues:

  1. Changing channels now has a significant delay (2-3 time longer than before).
  2. The guide stretching issue that everyone has mentioned.
  3. Worst of all, on two occasions in as many days, a recording (which completed recorded normally), was unable to play no matter what.  

Anyone else have these issues?

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CraigM
Newbie

We have had 1.7 for over a month in Portland, Oregon.  It HAS corrected my previous "handshake" problems, and I don't see any of the other problems mentioned here.  The guide is widescreen, but not in a stretched manner:  looks good.

TV is a Samsung LED, STB is the 7216 connected via HDMI cables thru a Denon amp.

Craig

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