You keep saying the same things in multiple topics

You want a new firmware
We don't communicate

Etc etc
Keep it in one topic instead of repeating the same things in topics where people post a negative repsonse.

I'm not saying to keep your mouth shut but to keep it on one place

Makes the forum better readable
And better to moderate

What?!
You've got to be confusing me with someone else.

Link to the "offending" posts please and stop slandering.

Oops Im sorry your right im confusing you with some one else

Actually, as i've understood it Junwei is actually a senior hd product specialist with the asia region hq of ac ryan. He did seem to bear information coming from the developers, but hasn't been all that active on the forum of late. I think its fair to say that they have a few really good in-house coders(and probably hiring!), but it's very limited what they can actually code, a lot of it is closed off and only accessible by Realtek.

In other news, the latest fw has dropped and initial response seems mixed. It does seem to work well for a significant proportion of the user base posting at this forum, as little as that indicates it does lead me to believe either not all bugs are apparent to all users, or users are experiencing differences related to other things.

One great thing i've read several times is video rendering seems improved, with one user stating he can now stream blurays w/ hd ma over lan. This sounds fabulous, and it makes me wonder, would it be possible to "backport" this improvement along with a couple of others(screen size adjustment, a few others), to an sdk3-based build keeping all of that line's settings and most importantly, defaults.

I think in so many ways the latest fws are a huge step backwards, so that even when Realtek throws us a bone in the form of an unexpected upgrade in video rendering performance and abilities, the vast amount of brokenness clearly outweighs this bone, imho.

It's been stated many times, by both mods and ac ryan staff, that the focus will be on polishing and fixing existing features, before bringing new ones in. But it's evident Realteks priorities lie elsewhere, i fear few of the sdk4 bugs will be worked out before sdk5. They'd rather throw everything out again in 3-6 months time and start anew, leaving users with that one favorite fw that did almost everything they wanted, and they just stick with it. Apart from an odd audio fix here or there(easily counted on one hand), has Realtek ever really did what their partners asked them to implement?

Pretty sad state of affairs, when the very latest branch of development is really only interesting as a production fw to a small subset of end product customers, existing or potential. It's this detachment that's the root of all this evil. Realtek really only care about the chips they make, and they ensure they have their partners by their balls by maintaining control of the renderers inside the chips. Either Realtek decides to let their partners help code their proprietary parts via NDA's, or someone reverses the lot of it and comes out with something complete and at least as stable as some of the better (older) ac ryan fws.

Hi I have only recently purchased the HD DVR and I thought from the advertising on the AC RVAN website that this was a working HD TV recorder not a work in progress system. I used 3 or 4 HD recorders over the last 6 or 7 years and I can confirm a £70 HD recorder from Tesco is a more refined and complete system. Programs later in the week can be programmed to record directly from the EPG and a repeating event can be set to record with a press of a button. Really I think that AC RYAN should concentrate on getting the basics of the recorder working smoothly and then add extra features rather than adding a lots of partially operational features. The EPG is a work in progress organising and removing channels is so difficult take a look at some of the budget set top boxes and see how effectively they work.I have used a Tvonics DVR for the last few years and the operating system of this is so straight forward I have never found or required a firmware update for this unit. I will give the AC RYAN a few more days to see if I can master the interface and if a working firmware update is not available I will be selling it on Ebay. I am already researching the latest Tvonics and Philips recorders which receive and record High Definition TV programmes. Sorry AC RYAN but on paper your system does EVERYTHING when in practice it does nothing fully.

I can't believe that we still dont have an answer to the MASSIVE AMOUNT of open issues!!!!

Every firmware release has a changelist

So if your bug is not in the changelist it's not resolved
Some bugs can only be resolved by Realtek (Some parts of the firmware is closed for acryan programmers and can only be accesed by realtek.

Wouldn't it be fair to not only list the changes, but also the most important open issues? There once was the idea of using a bug tracker (mind you, this was AC Ryan's idea!) but somehow this was never implemented.
With every release lots of people are complaining that specific issues are still present. Being honest about these bugs would at least avoid these discussions.

vanhal does have a point - we're back to the lack of information complaints again
We would all appreciate a bit more openness from ACR.