@NFtoBC wrote:
What happens if you take your PikTV device to your brother's place?
Just tried this, the box worked fine, switching between hockey on PikTV Sportsnet and CBC on Antenna was identical in terms of smoothness (though it did show off just how compressed the PikTV signal is!).
Brought it back home and the same test there's a clear difference in smoothness. My TV is 4k, my brother's is not.
While it's always hard to describe motion in writing, I'll try anyway. It's an inconsistent jerkiness like you get when you first tune to a channel and the box is trying to render the OSD, rather than the consistent stutter you'd see with 24fps content or on the 30fps channels like CBC on PikTV. As if the machine is struggling to render the content. Since content outputted from other apps is fine, I'm guessing there's something going on with the PikTV app's upscaling or deinterlacing at 4K. Unfortunately the PikTV is pretty locked down so I can't mess around with the output resolution or frame rate and try and troubleshoot.
This definitely was not an issue before the update, I was watching a baseball game when the update notification popped up, and the change was immediately noticeable after it updated.
For what it's worth, the new remote power saving setting where it kills the Bluetooth connection after a few hours makes the box completely unuseable for me anyway, as I have to walk into another room to turn the thing on via IR, since I didn't bother running an IR repeater when I redid all my cabling a couple months ago, as all my remotes connected by Bluetooth.
