922 configurable or Hardline idjit-proofed?

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My past IRDs for 20 years have been HoustonTracker & Chaparrals until 2
weeks ago: 922.

It'll take some getting used to.
Natch, it's been engineered to be more warm & fuzzy,(not surprisingly)
"user friendly", compared to the older IRDs that were more in the line
of hobbyist toys.
The "quid pro quo" in these hardware evolutions is often a loss of
configurability: they hide the guts for fear we idiots will tamper with
system files and then harrass customer support with our resulting
disasters. Hard to blame them for worrying about that.

But *maybe* (I tell myself) Motorola has retained the configurability we
oldsters enjoyed tweaking with. Maybe they just hid them where idjits
won't find them too often.

So tell me, please, is there a path to let me tweak and configure that
is out of the standard march of menus? A place to change menu colors and
alphanumerics from those which are opaque and so obscure the underlying
images to hollow or translucent characters? A way to decide if the VC2
synch is Auto or Off on the XXX transponders? Etc etc.
Thanks!
-Pham

 

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On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 05:39:34 GMT, Pham <Pham@NoBlok.net> wrote:

>My past IRDs for 20 years have been HoustonTracker & Chaparrals until 2
>weeks ago: 922.
>
>It'll take some getting used to.
>Natch, it's been engineered to be more warm & fuzzy,(not surprisingly)
>"user friendly", compared to the older IRDs that were more in the line
>of hobbyist toys.
>The "quid pro quo" in these hardware evolutions is often a loss of
>configurability: they hide the guts for fear we idiots will tamper with
>system files and then harrass customer support with our resulting
>disasters. Hard to blame them for worrying about that.
>
>But *maybe* (I tell myself) Motorola has retained the configurability we
>oldsters enjoyed tweaking with. Maybe they just hid them where idjits
>won't find them too often.
>
>So tell me, please, is there a path to let me tweak and configure that
>is out of the standard march of menus? A place to change menu colors and
>alphanumerics from those which are opaque and so obscure the underlying
>images to hollow or translucent characters? A way to decide if the VC2
>synch is Auto or Off on the XXX transponders? Etc etc.
>Thanks!
>-Pham

In an actual GI/Motorola receiver, heck no. They put/omit features to
suit their primary customers, the uplinkers/broadcasters.