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Awful. Hard to read. Takes up half the screen.
The new guide is horrible, both in functionality and appearance. The “Cursor Left” quick menu is gone, the foggy baby blue with white lettering is hard to see, the additional graphics cause the system to lag and be slow. In short you took a guide that finally started to work and have good functionality and turned it into some preschool, ill designed, buggy mess… And yes like most everyone else here I want the old one back…
I agree with all of this and I want the old one back or change this one so it's more user friendly and readable. I hate to think what people with a seeing disability have to do to read this guide.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/07/verizon-fios-hd-dvr-review-1-9/
Reviews are great!
1.9 Board
http://forums.verizon.com/t5/IMG-1-9/bd-p/IMG19
As posted in 1.9 Board
-New HD look is very nice (will be some shell shock but you will get over it)-Ability to add eSATA on 7 series DVR boxes-More Guide choices, better graphics, and more information presented in the Guide and Scheduling and Recording screens-Add time to a recording in progress-Share Recordings across multiple DVR's to DVR's and non DVR's-Set Recordings on the DVR of your choice from a non DVR-View the Scheduled Recordings from any other STB/DVR-Delete Recordings via a non DVR-Reminders in the DVR-Saved Searches-Search from anywhere, hit the "B" button-Air Date and or Movie Year-Ability to recover 30 deleted recordings-Ability to Delete or Play the entire contents of a folder-Simple button press "C" to go to the HD equivalent (if it exists)-4 Guide choices with one being a new vertical Channel Guide.-7 series STB's are very responsive
1.9 with two 7232 DVR's and 7x STB's as I have is killer. There are so many additional features, many we all asked for. For me, the additional hard drive space (internal and eSATA) and sharing content from DVR to DVR to STB's that make it killer!
While this won't help the color issue, if you go into Menu, Settings, Television, Guide View, you can select Classic View (if you have IMG 1.9). This gives you the Guide as it was in 1.8, so there is not as much clutter on the screen as with the new view. There won't be as many channels to view on one screen.
Good find, Charlie.
The new guide and its accompanying features are excellent.
The new channel guide is absolutely awful. Channel surfing is now painful because it is slower to switch between channels and the info takes up half of the screen. Leave it to Verizon to take an activity like sitting down to relax with some mindless channel surfing and make it aggravating.
I have to agree the new guide is far worse than the old one. Even using "modes" to see what movies are currently playing doesn't work like it used to. It's way bad. And scanning through the channels is way to slow. And the PIP is way too small now. I only hope someone in charge reads these posts and will take some action.
So, the new guide is a loser. I can't read anything on it. That bold font makes every word run together! I could go on, but many (if not most) of you have said it better. Does this make any difference to Verizon? Or are they just allowing us to use the space to make us feel like we are being heard?
I agree that hte new channel guide is terrible! Hard to read, Slow scrolling. I have worked with this for several days (because I didn't want my initial bad opinion to blind me to positive improvements), and have not discovered any advantages of gee-whiz new features. FIX THIS MESS, VERIZON!
I cannot agree with EVERYONE else on this blog - the new guide is HORRIBLE!!! It is so HARD TO READ and very annoying to even look at with those colors, ugh. This change really makes me want to look at other companies for my tv viewing. And yes i agree again that how come customers weren't aware of any change and/or inquired about any changes. If we were notified prior perhaps we would be very informative in helping the tech team in actually making a better guide (wow what a concept verizon, asking the consumer what we want and like!?).
Not only am I totally confused and feel like I'm vision impaired, but the update messed up my non HD channels which now have the pretty black bars on top. I finally learned how to get rid of them on channels 140-210, and now they are back. Called tech support and my video settings are already set to "stretch" so that was not the answer. I guess I have to watch my stuff on HD.
I build and repair computers and my theory is exactly as stated above: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." At least I would have liked the option of leaving the old firmware as is. I had no problems at all. I do now.
Sushi-girl
Verizon sent out the VZ Mag showing the new software was coming. They also sent out emails to the user community showing the new software was coming and what it looked like.
I have had it for many months and don't exhibit any of the problems mentioned. I like it a lot along with new features 1.9 offers. For example I can record/delete shows from my other STB's.
Jim
The new guide would be good for people who want less information and a smaller view of the program they are watching when they press guide. Even the old guide covered up too much of the screen when you switch channels. A small translucent display of the channel number in one of the upper corners would be sufficient. I really would like to see the score of the game, the news scroll or other broadcast information when I switch channels. I'll use the information key when I need more.
Under Television - channel guide you can select half view of the channel guide or even choose miniguide.
@Customer456 wrote: The new guide is horrible, both in functionality and appearance. The “Cursor Left” quick menu is gone, the foggy baby blue with white lettering is hard to see, the additional graphics cause the system to lag and be slow. In short you took a guide that finally started to work and have good functionality and turned it into some preschool, ill designed, buggy mess… And yes like most everyone else here I want the old one back…
The Quick Menu has been moved to the right arrow button.
