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Look at Picture 5, it tells you under the in-screen picture
A lot of what people like about an image is more the skin than the image. I like VIX because it has a nice clean user-friendly interface and it is very stable. The default skin is black text on a light grey background. Some people don't like that because it is a bit bright in a darkened room, but now there is a dark-skin with white text on a black background (a bit like a teenagers website). Apart from that there most of the differences between one skin and another are pretty minor.Mark in Portugal said:Question; which image?
Now I can see that the poll favors Black hole by far, but these things change fast.
I have tried to make mine as simple as possible. I got a Nova TV USB stick for TDT and that means terrestrial and satellite all work from the same remote. The USB stick becomes the 3rd tuner and you can record TDT the same as satellite. The other thing to make it user friendly for non-hobbiest is used fixed dishes rather than motorised ones where possible. That way zapping is super fast. Anyway my six and eight year olds don't have any trouble finding what they want, including playing films from the HDD.Mark in Portugal said:My wife, however, is a total technophobe; the goal is that after I've set it up, she should be able to operate at least the basic functions without the system freezing or dropping into a mode that she can't get out of.
She doesn't like to go past channel switching and volume changes.
You can do permanant timeshift to a USB memory stick (or the HDD).Mark in Portugal said:Can the machine be set to continuously record the last 20 [+ -] minutes watched, to allow random rewinding?
Vix (especially to keep the wife happy).Mark in Portugal said:Which image do you recommend I go for?
This doesn't really matter. In Vix you can make a back-up image at any point, so once you get it working how you want make a back-up and if it does ever get messed up just flash it with the back-up and it will revert back to your perfect image.fergyc said:don't let her mess round with the settings!
That's one of the things I like about the default HD skin for VIX, it's light. Light text on a dark background is for whipper-snappers (and people on drugs who don't want to be dazzled).Burnham Beech said:I can't stand any of them visually as they all use some version of the white/pale lettering on a black/dark background.
Huevos said:The thing is if you pump up the fonts to make them easy to read on a 19" tv they will look ridiculous on a mainstream 2011 tv, after all the Vu+ Duo is an HD box so it is highly likely the overwhelming majority of owners are going to be using this in conjunction with a 32" or bigger full HD tv, so guess that is what most skins are designed for.
Use an SD skin.N1501 said:Is there any way I can increase the font size
I used to drive a Ferrari, but after 3 crashes I've opted for a Mini Metro. :-rightondigi247 said:I tried Vix 2.3 on my ultimo a while back but after 3 crashes
If you are still on 2.3 you are missing out on loads of things such as the new blindscan plugin.Captain Jack said:I am on VIX 2.3 - very, very stable. Plug and play. Had some issues with 2.4, though, so I am still on 2.3. If it works, don't fix it...... not that it matters in our case!
Huevos said:I used to drive a Ferrari, but after 3 crashes I've opted for a Mini Metro. :-righton
I've never had any trouble with VIX. Been running it for a year and a half. The latest version raises the bar even higher... but each to their own.
A lot of it is what plugins and so on you have loaded especially when you do a system restore when you flash the image.digi247 said:One of the Lucky ones then on 2.3 but as i say i tried it on mine and literally just had it installed and green screen of death, and from WOS forums there where plenty of others having similar problems so mine was not an isolated case.
Now 2.4 on the other hand i tried for a week on my Uno and its been fine far more stable than 2.3 and finally Vix have got around to PLI's way of thinking of letting everyone get hold of the latest build of the image now thats better.