teehar
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the more I have played with the sparkle settings the more I like it. even has a shimmer effect you can turn on for the guide. tivimate has some competition for sure.
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Right. Even has a preview window if you can find iin setting.
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teehar
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yea it took me a bit to find that setting and my preview window is on the left.
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MGB123
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Wow! I decided to check out Sparkle again after reading the comments here about app mode and the DVR stuff but didn’t realize it would fix an irritating thing I was experiencing on Tivimate.
I have IT Tech Basics and it’s been great for the most part using Tivimate. But occasionally it would buffer in the middle of a game so I would find another channel and it was OK. Or if I was going back and forth between two games, sometimes it would time out when I changed the channel. I always thought it was on the IPTV side but I found I could work around it.
But in the day and a half I’ve been using Sparkle, with some of the channels that used to be a problem (like Rogers Sportsnet) I have not had a single problem.
Thanks for the feedback about this which prompted me to check it out again.
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do you know why some series dont work on sparkletv
I’ve been using Sparkle pretty much for the past month. Liking it much better than Tivimate
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Miki
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I got it this morning and gave it a 4 hr test drive. Pass. So much I can’t do with it, that is so easy with TiVimate, and I don’t have any problems recording with Tivimate so I’ll stick to Tivimate.
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teehar
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did you try app mode Miki? I’m not placing it above tvmate but definitely good competition. I’m keeping both.
Miki
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I didn’t try app mode. Once I couldn’t find any way to make my own categories and easily add channels I backed out and deleted it. 4 hours playing around and so much I couldn’t do. But it’s all good, I know TiViMate inside and out and know how to get stuff done. Lots of happy ppl with Sparkle.
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I’m a TiviMate die hard but had a Sparkle license from years ago and this thread made me go back and try it. I know what you mean about just instinctively knowing how everything works.
After spending about a day playing with Sparkle I will probably be using frequently now. It is much improved over the older versions. My wife hates change, so she’ll keep to strictly using TiviMate.
To make new categories in Sparkle you got to the EPG, go to a current category and long press OK for the option menu to pop up. The second choice will be “edit category”. When you move to “edit category” you press left or right and it will become “new category”. Not easily intuitive for new users and they should really have a manual. Hopefully Sparkle, and other programs, will continue to improve since competition benefits the consumer.
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supposedly works excellent in app mode?
here’s a cracked copy that says everything’s unlocked on a thread in reddit..even dvr works with no goolge account…haven’t tried it as i have a paid license…but interesting tho
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How did you move the preview window to the left?
teehar
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actually…it was on my other left lol not sure what I was thinking there
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frankw
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Does anyone know how to assign or edit the epg program description in the Sparkle TV Player?
You can long press ok on a channel, and it will bring up the channel options menu then select “edit channel” and then “EPG ID” to pull up a search screen. I don’t think there is a way to do multiple channels or to assign extra EPG sources to a playlist like in TiviMate.
