Mystro in Time Warner Cable TV/Voice http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20190109 en Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:36:14 EDT Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:36:14 EDT Re: Mystro http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20315306 Vchat20 : Thanks. Yeah, thats what I was kinda figuring on the account management channel. As for the caller id, unfortunately I can't find any way to set that. I seem to remember there possibly being an option for this on passport's 'app', but it's all integrated in mystro as far as I can tell. The caller id settings are part of the whole main settings screen which handles box functions like parental controls, audio settings, etc.. The only caller id related options there are turning it off or on and a recent calls list. If I hit the settings button again, the whole screen closes out. Nothing else responds to brining up any more details.
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I swear, some people should have pace-makers installed to free up the resources. Breathing and heart beat taxes their whole system, all of their brain cells wasted on life support.-two bit brains, and the second bit is wasted on parity! ~head_spaz]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20315306 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:41:56 EDT Re: Mystro http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20312836 Rombus : @Vchat20:

AFIK, They are working on the account management channel. I've heard rumors that it will be ready once all the boxes in NEO Get mystro. Im pretty sure the callerID has a delay setting if you hit the settings button, but im not sure since i dont have a mystro box in front of me, if i get to play with one today, ill post here and let you know. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20312836 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:04:45 EDT Re: Mystro http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20311930 Vchat20 : We actualy just got Mystro pushed to our SA8000 box earlier this morning here in Warren/NEO and I have to put out my own review here.

Compared to most of the horrid ratings I have read from other TW customers, I do feel that either they had expected way too much out of these underpowered boxes or Time Warner actually has been doing a good job of optimizing the software.

Speed-wise, Mystro is just a slight bit on the slow side, but it is by no means sluggish. Even passport around the time they added on the Caller ID app became a bit on the sluggish side on a lot of functions. The only thing in mystro that is real annoying is initially putting up the guide and it takes it a few moments to respond to commands till the tv feed is resized to the top corner and the text fills the guide screen. Once that's done though, it's right up there with passport on speed.

I also feel that Mystro makes things feel a little more fluid all around rather than everything feeling like it was bodged together and reprogrammed for the MSO (ala passport). This was mostly noticable with the OD channels and PPV purchase/info screens. Mystro has it all synchronized not only in the GUI design, but functionality as well (OD entries accessible and searchable off the guide and access menu. MAJOR plus in my book.).

And overall the design just looks more modern in my mind than passport. I'm currently running this on my 42" 720p Panasonic 42px80u plasma via 480i S-Video and I am still impressed with how the software looks. I'm anxious to see how the software is handled on the HD boxes (whether they have their own software with the GUI bits built for HD resolutions or they are just resized on the fly from the lower resolution up to 720p/1080i/1080p).

My brother whom lives in columbus has an SA8300HD box through WOW and they run some sort of in-house OCAP software themselves (Not passport nor SARA that I could tell) and in comparison to Mystro, THAT is painful. The sluggishness of all the menus are mind-boggling to say the least. (I'm going down this weekend. I will attempt to get some pictures to compare and hopefully someone can correct me on exactly what they are running.)

The ONLY major cons I have right now (and they are probably tweaks planned at this point) are the account management/payment channel is currently missing (PLEASE do not kill it off, it's a godsend to say the least) and the updated CID app only sticks around for 1-1/2 to 2 rings it seems. On passport it stuck around for at least 4 rings or more (answering machine is set to answer at 4, it stayed on screen past that.)
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I swear, some people should have pace-makers installed to free up the resources. Breathing and heart beat taxes their whole system, all of their brain cells wasted on life support.-two bit brains, and the second bit is wasted on parity! ~head_spaz]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20311930 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:07:43 EDT Re: Mystro http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20280313 nyrmetros :
said by elnino See Profile :

said by nyrmetros See Profile :

Another complaint about mystro is the rather short info that is relayed about a movie after I press the info button. Passport used to display 2 pages of info, but mystro only displays half a page of info.
If you hit INFO twice, does it show you more info?
no, it just closes the info box.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20280313 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:06:12 EDT Re: Mystro http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20268633 elnino :
said by nyrmetros See Profile :

Another complaint about mystro is the rather short info that is relayed about a movie after I press the info button. Passport used to display 2 pages of info, but mystro only displays half a page of info.
If you hit INFO twice, does it show you more info?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20268633 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:41:55 EDT Re: Mystro http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20267977 nyrmetros :
said by Rombus See Profile :

said by nyrmetros See Profile :

Another complaint about mystro is the rather short info that is relayed about a movie after I press the info button. Passport used to display 2 pages of info, but mystro only displays half a page of info.
AFAIK, that shouldn't have changed. Guide data can be great, or sparse for any particular show, but i haven't noticed it being more sparse since the upgrade.

On my tv, there is definately much less info about any show or movie or sporting event than Passport Echo had. Just an observation.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20267977 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:07:31 EDT Re: Mystro http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20262872 NY11102 : That used to happen here in NY, but Mystro is running faster when it comes on loading the TV guide or settings.I think that TWC is improving Mystro.

The only thing that is REALLY annoying is when you press the "List" button to see your shows on your DVR.It takes really long to load all the DVR list.

You can leave to the kitchen to make a tea and when you are back that list will still loading :P]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20262872 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:28:02 EDT Re: Mystro http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20262416 Rombus :
said by nyrmetros See Profile :

Another complaint about mystro is the rather short info that is relayed about a movie after I press the info button. Passport used to display 2 pages of info, but mystro only displays half a page of info.
AFAIK, that shouldn't have changed. Guide data can be great, or sparse for any particular show, but i haven't noticed it being more sparse since the upgrade.

I do know its quite annoying to hit guide and have it go "now loading" for 10-30 seconds, never did that with passport :(]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20262416 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:32:30 EDT Re: Mystro http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20261632 nyrmetros : Another complaint about mystro is the rather short info that is relayed about a movie after I press the info button. Passport used to display 2 pages of info, but mystro only displays half a page of info.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20261632 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:02:25 EDT Re: Mystro http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20215021 NY11102 : Passport echo has that. You have to press the TVguide button and the "c", and it shows you when that show is gonna be played again, but with Mystro, we have to press "b" TWICE and then TYPE IN the show name to look for the next available shows :( .
I wish TWC could add "C' button to theTV guide, that way we would have that option that Passport echo has!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20215021 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:18:49 EDT Re: Mystro http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20206891 billy2313 : I wish the show or movie that im watching i could just hit one button and it search when it is on again,dish dvrs can do that...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20206891 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:59:53 EDT Re: Mystro http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20194679 Rombus : The search feature is still there, Just hit the B button instead of C.

You can also access it by hitting A and selecting Find shows.

Also, i heard an interesting thing at work:

There were something like 300 revisions to the Passport software, Mystro is on rev 6, and i can say they have came a LONG way since they first released. it. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20194679 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:33:54 EDT Re: Mystro http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20194271 nyrmetros :
said by NY11102 See Profile :

Mystro's user friendly but I miss the "c" button in the Passport Echo's TV guide that let you look for tv shows by name.
I really miss this feature also!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20194271 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:50:45 EDT Mystro http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20190109 NY11102 : I used to complaint about Mystro and how it wasn't as fast in response as Passport Echo.

I went to my mom's house where she has Optimum and I was really disappointed to see how bad the TV guide was and how slow it was when switching channel and when loading the main window of Video On Demand.

I was at my friend's house in NJ 2 weeks ago. He has Comcast, and the tv guide and software is as bad as Optimum.

I'd like to see the new Fios Tv guide and see its interface and if it is slow or as fast as Passport Echo.

I miss Passport Echo , but I think that TWC is doing a good job with Mystro.
It doesn't take that long anymore when switching channels, but it does only when you press the "List" button to see the DVR list(TWC fix this bug please!)
Mystro's user friendly but I miss the "c" button in the Passport Echo's TV guide that let you look for tv shows by name.

I think that Mystro will be running really smooth in few more months and TWC will have all the bugs fixed soon.

TWC keep improving Mystro, make it faster in response and add more features to it :) ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20190109 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:26:34 EDT