Dialog TV software upgrade

An announcement was made last night bu Dialog TV regarding a software upgrade that will take place over commencing today (May 29th) until the end of this month. The upgrade will take place at specific time intervals and will take approximately 10 min to complete. PLEASE DO NOT POWER OFF THE DECODER DURING THE UPGRADE. If the upgrade takes place while you are watching your favourite program then hard luck to you.

Anyway after checking out a manually upgraded MPEG4 decoder we have noticed the following changes.

1. Pause button works. The problems in the pause caused by the previous upgrade have been solved but on the downside the pause also causes the sound to get cut off which is very annoying for those who want to pause the picture but may want to sound to continue playing. This is something for Dialog to consider when carrying out the next update.
2. It is now possible to have a small screen preview when you're browsing through all the channels like in the silver decoder.
3. New favourite channels list.
4. The zoom button performs much better now but then there is no point in this since once the zoom is presses the pixelations increase.

This update seems to be performing better that all the updates carried out by Dialog TV so far, and hopefully the trend continues. Please post in the comments section any further changes in the decoder after the software upgrade that we may have not noticed.

Instructions to update.

• MPEG4 Decoder : In the menu select "info" and click press "ok" after selecting the "software upgrade" option.
• CBNsat Decoder : In the menu select "IRD Upgrade" and press "ok".
• Dialog TV Silver Decoder : In the menu select "Installation" and press "ok" after selecting "OTA Download".

Please keep us posted on the latest on Dialog TV as the days progress.

"Play" and "HTV" on air

Dialog TV has recently launched the "Play" channel after launching "HTV" a few days ago. The "Play" channel which is presently FTA will showcase trailer and snippets from programming available via all channels on Dialog TV. We hope that instead of only using this channel to play previews & snippets, Dialog TV should try to upgrade this channel to the standard of the interactive channel on Dish TV. What happens to this future is yet to be seen.

In other news the local channel "HTV" is being greeted with optimism by Dialog TV subscribers and seems to have the best content out all the local non terrestrial channels being aired by Dialog TV.

Please keep us updated on the latest post regarding Dialog TV as the days progress.