Humax PVR-9300T: Does Your One Do This?
I have had my 9300T for a few months now and on the whole it has been great, but it has a couple of problems that are quite annoying. I'm wondering if they all do this, or if it's just mine.
1) One some recorded programmes it will suddenly jump forwards in time, missing out whole sections, which is accompanied by the sound going miles out of sync.
If I rewind it will show the missed sections, proving that they are there, but it will jump through them again if I try to re-play the section.
Sometimes if I press pause for a few moments when it starts to jump, it will then play normally and show the missed sections, but nine times out of ten it won't do it. Other times I have gone back and watched the problem recording again and it has played through without a problem, or played the problem sections correctly only to jump in another section.
2) Sometimes when I put the unit into standby it doesn't seem to turn right off. It looks as if it's in standby (showing just the clock), but I can hear something working inside. It's not the fan and it's not the hard drive spinning, but it is some sort of activity (on the right-hand side of the unit, as viewed from the front). I have to switch it off at the back of the unit, then back on again to get it to go into proper (silent) standby.
3) This isn't a problem as such, but I wanted to mention it: On the fast-forward control the speed control hasn't got an 8x speed. It jumps from 4x to 16x, which is quite annoying as the 8x would be a handy option.
Mine just has 2x, 4x, 16x, 32x and 64x. Are they all like that?
Just in case it is significant, here are the details for my particular unit:
Hardware version: REV 1.0
Software version: UPTTF 1.00.15
Loader version: a4.37
Thanks very much
1) One some recorded programmes it will suddenly jump forwards in time, missing out whole sections, which is accompanied by the sound going miles out of sync.
If I rewind it will show the missed sections, proving that they are there, but it will jump through them again if I try to re-play the section.
Sometimes if I press pause for a few moments when it starts to jump, it will then play normally and show the missed sections, but nine times out of ten it won't do it. Other times I have gone back and watched the problem recording again and it has played through without a problem, or played the problem sections correctly only to jump in another section.
2) Sometimes when I put the unit into standby it doesn't seem to turn right off. It looks as if it's in standby (showing just the clock), but I can hear something working inside. It's not the fan and it's not the hard drive spinning, but it is some sort of activity (on the right-hand side of the unit, as viewed from the front). I have to switch it off at the back of the unit, then back on again to get it to go into proper (silent) standby.
3) This isn't a problem as such, but I wanted to mention it: On the fast-forward control the speed control hasn't got an 8x speed. It jumps from 4x to 16x, which is quite annoying as the 8x would be a handy option.
Mine just has 2x, 4x, 16x, 32x and 64x. Are they all like that?
Just in case it is significant, here are the details for my particular unit:
Hardware version: REV 1.0
Software version: UPTTF 1.00.15
Loader version: a4.37
Thanks very much
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Comments
2. Yes, my 9300 does this. Weird, isn't it?
3. No, none of them have 8x (but yes, it would be useful!)
I bought one of these yesterday, one of the first recordings I made started doing this skipping thing and then the sound was out of sync. I pressed stop, and resumed playback and sync was ok again. I hope this isn't going to happen often!!
Regarding the skipping, I'm wondering if this might have something to do with the formatting of the hard drive.
With my unit, the problem seems to exist in programmes around the same part of my play list, despite old ones being deleted and new ones recorded. I wonder if it is using the same part of the hard drive and there is something wrong with the file table structure or something.
I was going to try re-formatting the hard drive, but I've always got programmes on there that I haven't watched, so haven't had the chance to try it yet.
I have never noticed problems 1 or 2. Other problems, yes.
8X speed does seem logically to be a hole in the sequence but personally I don't feel a great need for it.
The forward and reverse user time skip settings and direct time code entry make the fast forward functions pretty redundant anyway
I haven't read the instructions yet, so I expect I am missing some handy features!
Don't delete a faulty recording and see if that protects other ones from using that part of the disc.
Or bring up the time bar by pressing 'play' once, move to where you want to be in the recording using right or left arrow and press OK.
Yes, they are all like that.
****** annoying as x8 is the fastest speed for forwarding that doen't skip scenes
tim
No it's not. If you're looking for a particular scene, jumping 30 seconds or 1 minute at a time can miss it.
tim
You set the forward time to say 2 mins and the reverse to say 15 sec. The longest you can overshoot in reverse is 14 sec.
If you know the timecode you can type it straight in and you can bookmark any scene for instant access
A month ago I bought a PVR-9150T and it did exactly what is described in 1) above. I tried reformatting the hard drive but this didn't solve the problem. Thinking the box was faulty I exchanged it for another to find that it did exactly the same. I was thinking of exchanging the 9150T for a PVR-9300T but perhaps not now I know it can happen on these boxes as well. I have had a PVR-9200T for several years and I can't remember it ever having such an issue. Anyone else seen this problem?
I've just thought that maybe problem areas (assuming it's due to problem areas on the hard drive) are taken up by programmes I haven't watched yet, so I'll post here again if it starts playing up again.
Maybe it's something to do with the actual transmission of the programme rather than the PVR itself. I can't think why that would be, but it seems too much of a coincidence.
The other programmes that were playing up were some documentaries about famous photographers. I can't think if they were on BBC3, but maybe the problems are specific to that channel.
I think it must be the PVR as when I watched the live transmission of Family Guy last night it was fine. Only the playback of the recording of the same programme has the problem.
The other programme I have had an issue with was watching Crimewatch BBC1 on chase play.
Anyway, my PVR-9150T was returned to Tesco this morning. If there is a solution to this problem only then will I buy another Humax.
Interesting that it only started happening after DSO. Winter Hill is my transmitter also. I wonder if the problem happens from any other transmitter. I guess it must be a bug in the Humax software. I had the latest 9150T software installed (1.00.18).
When I said that maybe it's something to do with the transmission of the programme I didn't mean that I thought the live transmission jumped and skipped, I meant that maybe it's something in the code of the transmission that causes problems for the PVR when it records it or tries to play it back.
God knows what that could be. Maybe it's to do with the codes that are used to schedule the recordings.