I am wondering if it is only me that was confused by this, so I thought I'd post a picture and ask everyone out there what they think.
My satellite TV DVR has been playing up the last few weeks, often marking a programme as "not recorded due to no signal". I went in to the settings of the system, and check the signal strength. The screen is shown below, click for a larger version of the image.
Without thinking too much about it, what do you think my "Input 1 Signal Strength" is? Is it high or low? Please leave me a comment with what you thought.
Apparently, the very light gray is the "positive" colour, and it turns out that I have a very high signal strength for input 1. However, for days I was fiddling around with the dish and the cables, because I believed I had a really *low* signal strength as indicated by the small dark blue portion of the box. The dark blue colour was a much more obvious "positive" colour to me. The predominantly dark blue areas for the Lock Indicator, Network ID and Transport Stream drew my eye to the dark blue of the strength and quality scales. Without any cues as to the correct way to read this, I got confused.
My wife tells me I am being pretty daft, that reading the bars "left to right" is totally obvious, and that the light gray is obviously the "content" colour (see the 07d4 on the Transport Stream for example - the background is blue, the content gray). I've asked two other people, and they also said the gray was the measure colour.
Even knowing the correct way to view this, I *still* see the dark blue of the indicators first.
So what did you think? Is this easy, and I am just nuts? Or is this a confusing UI? Leave me a comment, let me know!
