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Is the Humax HDR-1010S still plagued by bugs in the firmware?
Satellite John
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I am thinking of getting a Humax HDR-1010S, but it has quite a lot of mixed reviews, particularly older reviews near its launch are largely poor. Has the firmware been improved to get rid of all the bugs? Which bugs still remain?
There used to be a really good website listing all the flaws with Freesat Freetime and expected fixes, where has this gone?
Thanks very much for any help.
There used to be a really good website listing all the flaws with Freesat Freetime and expected fixes, where has this gone?
Thanks very much for any help.
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There were apparently lots of problems with the early software but these have been pretty much fixed. There are still issues that I would like changed such as requiring less key presses to resume playing a recording but these are UI preferences rather than bugs.
The main freesat forum closed because the freesat (not Humax) owners did not like negative comments. There are still Humax forums open.
I have a HDR-1000S and a HB-1000S and am very happy with them, That said some have issues with the WiFi on the HDR-1010S.
Not seen any issues since that (I believe series recording events will be removed 13 weeks after the last airing, so they're due to go any day now).
I think the only real complaint you can have about the firmware now is how "clunky" the UI feels - far too many button presses (and an extra menu level when you don't really need it) to do common operations. The lack of use of the 4 coloured buttons on the remote is nothing short of a UI disaster, so there's no easy way to reduce the number of presses.
I agree especially with the coloured button shortcuts (A feature of all Humax pvrs since the first ones).
The problem is not down to the firmware, it's down to the designed by committee, head in the sand attitude of the frankly incompetent idiots at Freesat who are entirely responsible for the UI design. They actually had a user forum, all these good ideas were posted, they ignored the lot and in the end closed the forum.
Whoever is responsible for responding to customer enquires at Freesat has clearly never used a twin tuner Humax PVR of any vintage.
Note this response from Freesat which is pure garbage
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=74619562&postcount=27
From this thread
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2005799
The truth is every Humax twin tuner pvr ever made, and was responsible for the UI, has always been capable of recording two at the same time and also capable of watching a 3rd channel dependant on the transponder (Freesat) / Mux (Freeview) combination being recorded.
What was the one this week for?
Was it over the air or internet? I haven't noticed anything so if I haven't got it is it worth getting?
Never mind I looked this up. The changes were so subtle I never even noticed my box had been upgraded (I don't use showcase).
Both I think. New Showcase and option to turn off the also available in HD prompt. I haven't seen the flashing book me now prompt since the update (could be a coincidence of course).
I'm on the very brink of buying a Humax HDR-1010S for Freesat and would be interested in knowing what drawbacks it has.
I have used a Humax Freeview box (the PVR-9300T) and the interface seems clunky but okay to me. So I figured that the HDR1010S would be more or less the same. What might I be overlooking?
All1
this is unnacceptable to the wife !!!!
Still, BUT I do not think there is a simple fix.
Pete
Promises, promises .... or just castles in the air?
My memory is quite good. Humax made no direct statement on client server functionality. Barry, over at MyHumax Forum, asked Humax to respond or comment, on a list of questions - one of which was the DLNA client/Server functions.
The response I remember is that it is our (Humax's) intention to provide this in the future. Later I saw a response that DLNA server function functionality was not planned for the HB-1000S.
My memory is excellent and I'm certain they did.
What future would that be?
I never mentioned server function in the HB, only the HDR.
I do remember seeing something about another Humax product in another region with Hub functionality on Humax's International site,
Ours I hope.
OK.
Maybe it's just my box but I have put it away now.
The EPG just lists programmes by 'now and 'next', rather than in hourly bandings, which makes it impossible to follow easily;
There's no time display on the box when replaying a recording, nor when in time lapse. Any time you wonder how long a recording has to go, you have to press a button;
Recording series can be listed in 'most recent' or 'A-Z' order but you click on a recorded series, the individual programmes are in no apparent order at all. In fact, they can be in a different order next time you click on that series;
When a live programme is showing, the 'I' button doesn't show a progress bar;
The list of recorded programmes gives no idea of what time it was originally broadcast;
There's no obvious indication on screen that something is being recorded in the background;
No hint on screen or box when you are watching in time lapse and no indication when you cancel rewind that you are watching live TV;
If you press "right" twice then you get a display in hourly bandings. Yes it would be better if you could configure it to be like that from the start but it is liveable with.
Yes it would be better if the front panel showed elapsed time rather than the program name, this is no different to Sky though.
I'm not sure what you mean? A continuous on screen display would be awful and a reason to return the box as unusable. A brief on screen display when a recording starts would be annoying. There is a front panel icon showing record.
It would be good if the front panel showed the time offset in that case. On screen would be awful.
My HB1000S has no front panel indication whatsoever, so I have to go into the epg guide or 'recordings' to see if something is recording which is a more cumbersome way of doing it.
I don't want an indicator to show something has started because it's not something I care about - I set the thing to record, it records and that's it until I want to watch it. An on screen indicator would be annoying but if it was selectable on/off then fine.
Why do you want to see when a recording has started on a PVR? I thought the whole point of a PVR was that you didn't have to bother about things like that any more?
I can see why you'd want some indication on the HB1000S since it's single channel and not a PVR. On the HDR1000S it's different and the record icon is visible - it's unreadable at normal viewing distance but that doesn't matter as it's enough to see it's there.
The idea of an on screen recording indicator in addition to those annoying DOG's, Ahhhh!