Saving favourites on a B5 or other BTV5 box?

[jets]

Is it a good idea to save a bunch of show, mostly series or 24/7 categories as favourites on say a B5 or any BT5 box? So like on guy probably has save 100 or so favourites. Is that advisable?

 

I told him just get a Princess Auto Keyboard and search your series/ 24/7 and us them directly. Like each favourite is it taking much memory? What is the best way to manage this?

[Emporium]

I don't see an issue saving them as favorites.  That is what it was designed for.

For TV Series keep in mind that if your service provider changes servers on and series_id in the back end or shuffles things around, your favorites may show the program and imdb/tvdb summary of the show, but may not show the different seasons and episodes available (if the series_id has changed).  If this happens, you would need to remove that TV show from favorites and then search for it, and add it back.  It happens from time to time.

For LiveTV channels, I have way over 200 favorites and I even have 2 favorites categories (one for me, and one for the boss herself).  For TV Shows, I typically have a dozen or so favorites which are the ones I am following typically.  For Movies, I typically add them to my favorites when browsing, to tag them "to watch".  But once I finish watching them, I untag them.

But I don't see any issue adding them to favorites.  Sure the B5 is the entry level basic series 5 box, and relatively slower than the more expensive boxes, but it won't harm to add favorites.  That is one of the basic features, may as well us it.

 

 

[jets]

OK so then if this is not the issue, the complaint is constant freezing from the server, that I and others do not esperance (same server). So my solution is to just reset the box every once and a while.

Should I be recommending clearing some cache memory somewhere and if so where. 

[Emporium]

Sure it is not his internet ?  If he is using WiFi, maybe as a test have him try using a direct ethernet cable. 

Speed is not the only factor for internet connection.  It needs to be stable.  Fast and unstable is useless.  Better slightly slower and stable.  And not all wifi routers are created equal.

I've given my B5 to my mom and she has no complaints (it is hard wired to her old asus router - not wifi) and have not reset it ever since I installed it over a year ago.

 

[dishuser]

2 hours ago, jets said:

Is it a good idea to save a bunch of show, mostly series or 24/7 categories as favourites on say a B5 or any BT5 box? So like on guy probably has save 100 or so favourites. Is that advisable?

 

I told him just get a Princess Auto Keyboard and search your series/ 24/7 and us them directly. Like each favourite is it taking much memory? What is the best way to manage this?

I have 3 favourite categories

no issues