Hi,
Does anyone know why the Fast Forward (and rewind probably, but less important) isn't a moving picture? By this I mean any other device I've used (including my TV, natively) will, say, FF x2 by showing a moving image animated at twice the speed of the original - Usain Bolt runs the 100m in 5 seconds; you see him running. With the 'Pro' box you get a still frame every second or so; it's not "fast forward" as you'd experience, even on a Betamax VCR 40 years ago. It's the same for any of the speeds (which perhaps should be called 'jumps'). Whilst this isn't much of an issue for most TV, with sport, it ruins the ability to FF to a point in the action, as you don't know "where you are" in the event.
This issue is made twice as bad by the semi-transparent overlays at the top and bottom of the screen, which masks the crucial information areas for sport (e.g. scores and time) so as you jump forward you don't known what the match time is or the score, and have to hit 'play' to find these out. The overlay bars never disappear, and cover about 40% of the screen, yet offer almost no useful information. The top one just shows the current time (something easily found by other means) rather than anything useful. Why not show the image time, at least then you'd be able to know what time the still image you are seeing represents. The progress bar is little use when the event is several hours long, as the bar doesn't display "offset from now" as a figure.
I'm sure the box is capable of showing animated images (it does it quite often) but I can't think of any other STB that offers no real FF capability. Maybe it's a YouView feature, as I've never had one before this.
This seems quite unusual for the flagship BT TV box.
