A Few Quick Tips For Those Who Are New To Fios Quantum and the New Quantum Update
roaddogg1
Specialist - Level 1

Most of those who have quantum received the new update early this morning (8/12/14)

There are a lot of people that are new to fios who never had anything prior to quantum so I thought I'd make this post to help.

Those who had the older boxes prior to quantum should already know about all of this.

The new update now reflects what the older stb/dr's have and have had for awhile now. There are now more menu settings you will want to go through.

The ad banner guide at the bottom can be disabled. Go to menu > Notifications > Guide Banner > set to disable

The banner will still be there, but will show Verizon rather then ads.

The home screen can be turned off. There is an option to turn it off within the home screen or you can go to menu > Notifications > Promotions > set to disable

The led on the boxes have been changed. If you want to change it go to menu > System > Media Server Settings > LED Brightness.

The Auto Power Off option is set to 4 hours by default. If you don't want the box to turn off automatically you will want to disable this. Menu > System > Media Server Settings > Auto Power Off > set to none

There is now the option to change the guides banners times outs. Menu > Settings > System > Television > Info Bar Time Out (also Channel Bar Timeout)

Some on other forums mentioned the video formats have been changed so its a good idea to check the option out to see if it reflects what you want. Menu > Settings > Audio & Video > Video Settings > Video Format

The aspect # button now works so any SD channels that are boxed can now be stretched using the # button. 

I'm happy to see this option back.

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Re: A Few Quick Tips For Those Who Are New To Fios Quantum and the New Quantum Update
roaddogg1
Specialist - Level 1

I can't edit my first post so I thought I'd update something here.

On the intial update the screen saver auto off was listed as auto off in the settings. At least it was on my vms otherwise I wouldn't have listed it.

The following day my box received another update and today just noticed the setting was changed from auto off to sleep timer.

So the updated correct way to disable auto off/screen saver  (and as Justin mentioned in a prior post) is:

Menu > System > Media Server Settings > Sleep Timer > set to none

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Re: A Few Quick Tips For Those Who Are New To Fios Quantum and the New Quantum Update
HokieDave
Contributor - Level 2

Does the new quantum update enable eSata?

The lack of eSata on quantum is a deal killer for me - I would be going backwards in terms of storage space.


@roaddogg wrote:

Most of those who have quantum received the new update early this morning (8/12/14)

There are a lot of people that are new to fios who never had anything prior to quantum so I thought I'd make this post to help.

Those who had the older boxes prior to quantum should already know about all of this.

The new update now reflects what the older stb/dr's have and have had for awhile now. There are now more menu settings you will want to go through.

The ad banner guide at the bottom can be disabled. Go to menu > Notifications > Guide Banner > set to disable

The banner will still be there, but will show Verizon rather then ads.

The home screen can be turned off. There is an option to turn it off within the home screen or you can go to menu > Notifications > Promotions > set to disable

The led on the boxes have been changed. If you want to change it go to menu > System > Media Server Settings > LED Brightness.

The Auto Power Off option is set to 4 hours by default. If you don't want the box to turn off automatically you will want to disable this. Menu > System > Media Server Settings > Auto Power Off > set to none

There is now the option to change the guides banners times outs. Menu > Settings > System > Television > Info Bar Time Out (also Channel Bar Timeout)

Some on other forums mentioned the video formats have been changed so its a good idea to check the option out to see if it reflects what you want. Menu > Settings > Audio & Video > Video Settings > Video Format

The aspect # button now works so any SD channels that are boxed can now be stretched using the # button. 

I'm happy to see this option back.


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Re: A Few Quick Tips For Those Who Are New To Fios Quantum and the New Quantum Update
roaddogg1
Specialist - Level 1

I don't know if it's been enabled yet or not. If someone else on here doesn't reply about it as soon as I find out I'll post an update when I find out.

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Re: A Few Quick Tips For Those Who Are New To Fios Quantum and the New Quantum Update
HokieDave
Contributor - Level 2

Thanks.  that would be a HUGE deal for me.  I switched from FIOS because of this, among a few other things, and if FIOS adds eSata support to their 6-channel DVR and the competitor does not, this would likely get me back.

One other question: does quantum use the same remote and does the 30-second skip work on the remote?

Your cable company competitor here does not offer their feature.  Their old (not 6-channel DVR) DVR was a very similar model to the Motorola one FIOS has and you could actually program a button for it into their remote using a button you didn't care about, but their new DVR is a cisco one and it doesn't have that feature at all.

This is another HUGE deal for me - skipping commercials is a rapid operation when you have this feature whereas if you have to fast forward through them, it takes a bit longer.


@roaddogg wrote:

I don't know if it's been enabled yet or not. If someone else on here doesn't reply about it as soon as I find out I'll post an update when I find out.


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Re: A Few Quick Tips For Those Who Are New To Fios Quantum and the New Quantum Update
roaddogg1
Specialist - Level 1

@HokieDave wrote:

One other question: does quantum use the same remote and does the 30-second skip work on the remote?



Yes there is the same skip option. 30 second, 1 minute, etc..

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Re: A Few Quick Tips For Those Who Are New To Fios Quantum and the New Quantum Update
fdxsteve
Enthusiast - Level 1

What did Verizon do to the reminder prompt on the guide menu?

Re: A Few Quick Tips For Those Who Are New To Fios Quantum and the New Quantum Update
Justin46
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@fdxsteve wrote:

What did Verizon do to the reminder prompt on the guide menu?


Apparently they just simply removed it, at least I can't find it. I have no idea why they took it out, won't really affect me as I rarely used it, but I know lots of people did use it. Strange....

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Justin
FiOS TV: Extreme HD, Internet: 50/25, Digital Voice
VMS Enhanced Service: 1 server, 2 clients
Keller, TX 76248 (VHO 1)

Re: A Few Quick Tips For Those Who Are New To Fios Quantum and the New Quantum Update
Justin46
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@HokieDave wrote:

Does the new quantum update enable eSata?

The lack of eSata on quantum is a deal killer for me - I would be going backwards in terms of storage space.


I don't think so. I have gone completely through all of the Settings (and changed a number of them back to the way I had them before the update) and I cannot find anything regarding attaching an eSATA drive. Of course I might have missed it but I don't think so.

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Justin
FiOS TV: Extreme HD, Internet: 50/25, Digital Voice
VMS Enhanced Service: 1 server, 2 clients
Keller, TX 76248 (VHO 1)

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Re: A Few Quick Tips For Those Who Are New To Fios Quantum and the New Quantum Update
agatto
Enthusiast - Level 1

Thanks for the info regarding the latest update. I like some of the new/improved options, however I am highly disappointed that the update discontinued the reminder option. I would think that setting a program reminder is a highly used feature and many will be unhappy now that it is gone. I know I surely am!

Re: A Few Quick Tips For Those Who Are New To Fios Quantum and the New Quantum Update
roaddogg1
Specialist - Level 1

@fdxsteve wrote:

What did Verizon do to the reminder prompt on the guide menu?


They did ineed remove it. Why remove it I have no idea.

I'm also told still no esata support which I find very odd and like Justin I didnt see any option for it. I would have thought with the update it would have been an option. I know for a lot of people it is going to be a deal breaker for them.