Blue-HD V2

[gnox]

Hi - I've just discovered this skin - and as a newly migrated sky user it is indeed the closest thing to original.
Are the 'Sky like' icons at the top of the channel list just cosmetic or is there a way to access them (box office,planner etc)
I'll happily donate £10 to the development fund also - fantastic skin and deserves to be supported.

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[judge]

I'll happily donate £10 to the development fund also - fantastic skin and deserves to be supported.

Just to make it clear, there's no need to donate anything. Just an idea to get a skin developer a ViX supported box he can develop new skins on.
Thanks for the offer & if some more of us can make a similar pledge, we're almost there.
No word from @rossi2000 though on whether he's willing to continue to develop the new Skin?

So, I'd wait on Andy, Sicilian & Rossi to give the go ahead first.

 

[josh_g]

Lets wait & see how many are willing to chip in first, little point in only raising £40.
Also wait & see if the site sponsor & Andy is ok with the idea.

I'd chip in £10 by paypal gift to site sponsor to get it started. Once we have enough other users pledging £5+ each so a decent box can be paid for for, we make the payments...
Rossi gets a decent box & hopefully works on this & maybe more ViX skins, sound fair enough?

Sounds good to me

 

[pspmixer]

yeah I would donate to keep this skin fresh and looking great

 

[rossi2000]

wow

thats great that you guys would do such a thing.

for sure i want to continue, but my spare funds are limited atm.

i was looking for a box that
a) supports the new skin <--- this is a must
b) quick e2 restart.

which is why ive not been to buy a cheapy max digital or anything. my quad was perfect.

currently there are only 2 manufacturers with this support. (Gigablue & Xtrend)
im not sure on the status of other manufactueres atm.

 

[gnox]

Well it looks like we have 7 people ready to donate to a box replacement already. Anyone else willing to help out?
@rossi - can you let us know the price of your preferred option and be can start calculating how many pledges we need ☺

 

[Andy_Hazza]

I'd gladly donate too. Keep up the good work rossi2000 :thumbsup:

 

[judge]

Are the 'Sky like' icons at the top of the channel list just cosmetic or is there a way to access them (box office,planner etc)

Just cosmetic & pretty useless to have them there for now.

but my spare funds are limited atm.

i was looking for a box that
a) supports the new skin <--- this is a must
b) quick e2 restart.

which is why ive not been to buy a cheapy max digital or anything. my quad was perfect.

currently there are only 2 manufacturers with this support. (Gigablue & Xtrend)
im not sure on the status of other manufactueres atm.

Yeah, fast E2 restart has to be a requirement for any skinner.
Solo2 pretty quick on an E2 restart, beats the Quad, not sure about new Xtrend boxes.
Think it had driver issues mentioned for the new skin though?

Well it looks like we have 7 people ready to donate to a box replacement already. Anyone else willing to help out?
@rossi - can you let us know the price of your preferred option and be can start calculating how many pledges we need ☺

Not sure we should let it to @rossi to decide. Some boxes have more features than others, like YouTube support, HbbTV, PIP, HDMI in...
If we're willing to pay for skin development, all possible default screens should be covered.

If anyone want's to do a total of pledges so far, please do, then we can decide when to donate or how long to wait for a decent box...

 

[simonsez]

tell me where to send the money.... so far i recon theres around £80-£100 in offers / donations and id happly add to that

again great idea. we would contiune to refine the Blue HD skin and finish off our masterpiece new skin

 

[judge]

I'd also wait for Andy or Sicilian to give the go-ahead before any pledges are actually paid for a new skin.
After all we don't pay Andy, Sicilian, or WOS for current box/image/skin updates...

 

[Rob van der Does]

currently there are only 2 manufacturers with this support. (Gigablue & Xtrend)

You forgot VU (Solo2 & DUO2).

 

[world-of-satellite.co.uk]

We can offer Rossi a £15 discount towards a new receiver. @ Rossi drop us a pm if you'd like to place an order.

 

[gerrykiddy]

There is a very good looking skin in downloads that looks just like the skin people are asking for. Is mention of the word Franken*** now forbidden by our leaders? If its good enough to be hosted by this site surely its good enough to be used.

 

[judge]

Is mention of the word Franken*** now forbidden by our leaders? If its good enough to be hosted by this site surely its good enough to be used.

Who are your leaders? & personally, I think the graphics used in that skin are dreadful.

 

[Larry-G]

There is a very good looking skin in downloads that looks just like the skin people are asking for. Is mention of the word Franken*** now forbidden by our leaders? If its good enough to be hosted by this site surely its good enough to be used.

That skin it self is not forbidden and its actually based directly on the Blue HD skin and the ViX Night HD skin. Its author however is a untrustworthy toad who is absolutely not welcome here.

If users want to use that skin so be it, but by the authors own words it will never be updated and as a result will loose compatibility with the image in time.

And now you have taken this thread so far off topic we will leave it there.

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[Maxwell]

.... Its author however is a untrustworthy toad who is absolutely not welcome here.

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::lol3:

 

[gnox]

There is a very good looking skin in downloads that looks just like the skin people are asking for. Is mention of the word Franken*** now forbidden by our leaders? If its good enough to be hosted by this site surely its good enough to be used.

I really don't understand where you are going with this.
Frankensky is a very nice skin - but there will obviously be no future development on it.

I simply want to help out a promising developer to get back contributing to the vix experience and hopefully we all get a better ui and usability at the end of it.

As a sky user for the last 11 years, and a newcomer to Vix Zeus and enigma 2 platforms, I think that a skin/channel guide/EPG platform that eases the learning curve for adopters can only be a good thing.

I personally think the vix Zeus has huge potential - and is a fantastic platform as it stands, but - as a newbie to it, some aspects of the GUI can prove confusing for people familiar with sky.



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[Rob van der Does]

Anyone wanting to set up a new skin, based on any existing one or not, is free to do so.
Any 'promising' skin & skinner will be helped by us to use the feeds for making the skin easily available for all.

 

[gazaz]

You forgot VU (Solo2 & DUO2).

Agreed ! The VU+ Solo2 is awesome, I have three , all with VIX/Blue-HD v2.

I'm happy to donate a small amount if you tell me where to send the funds.

thx

 

[rossi2000]

You forgot VU (Solo2 & DUO2).[/QUOTE

ahh so vu added support, cool.!