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Old 11-03-2009, 21:57
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Its long, skinny and the round circle button hurts your hand if your channel flicking after a while.

anyone know if they are planning to change it ? or something that's compatible ?
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Old 12-03-2009, 07:22
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I like the remote for the humax pvr, it is easy to use with many nice features.
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Old 12-03-2009, 07:43
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I like the remote for the humax pvr, it is easy to use with many nice features.
I agree
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Old 12-03-2009, 07:52
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The remote is extremely poor design. If you hold it at the bottom like you normally would do then the mostly used buttons, numbers and playback control, are out of comfortable reach.

The playback controls are very small and not logically laid out.

The IR performance it poor, not helped by the location of the IR receiver on the PVR itself.

Volume control should operate the TV not the PVR so you have a consistent volume across different sources.

There is no excuse for such a poor design, TiVo and Sky have both had excellent designs that are known to work for years, why start from scratch without looking at them?

As with the UI, the HDR has been designed by engineers and not experts in consumer experience.
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Old 12-03-2009, 08:09
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The remote is extremely poor design. If you hold it at the bottom like you normally would do then the mostly used buttons, numbers and playback control, are out of comfortable reach.

The playback controls are very small and not logically laid out.

The IR performance it poor, not helped by the location of the IR receiver on the PVR itself.

Volume control should operate the TV not the PVR so you have a consistent volume across different sources.

There is no excuse for such a poor design, TiVo and Sky have both had excellent designs that are known to work for years, why start from scratch without looking at them?

As with the UI, the HDR has been designed by engineers and not experts in consumer experience.
Ageed it is badly designed and not at all well thought out.

The experience of using the box improved dramatically when I programmed my Logitech Harmony to work with it.

I can only assume that people who like it must have been using something absolutely dire before.

We can hope that at least some of the UI clunkiness will be removed in the long awaited update but you really need to move to a third party supplier to get a decent remote.
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Old 12-03-2009, 08:28
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Ageed it is badly designed and not at all well thought out.

The experience of using the box improved dramatically when I programmed my Logitech Harmony to work with it.

I can only assume that people who like it must have been using something absolutely dire before.

We can hope that at least some of the UI clunkiness will be removed in the long awaited update but you really need to move to a third party supplier to get a decent remote.

which Logitech Harmony did you pick mate, think I'm going to invest in 1, My other half is finding the remote really hard to use also.
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Old 12-03-2009, 09:57
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Who sits there for a long time holding a remote????

Unless i am adding some programs in to record its normally not in my hand for more than 30 seconds.
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Old 12-03-2009, 10:20
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Its long, skinny and the round circle button hurts your hand if your channel flicking after a while.
anyone know if they are planning to change it ? or something that's compatible ?
why don't you use the programme/page up and down buttons instead?
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Old 12-03-2009, 10:49
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I use a Harmony 885. The Humax remote is gathering dust since setup in November.
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Old 12-03-2009, 10:54
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which Logitech Harmony did you pick mate, think I'm going to invest in 1, My other half is finding the remote really hard to use also.
The 525.

Be warned, though, that they are a pig to program.

Once you do it is well worth it. It makes using the box a much more pleasant experience.

Who sits there for a long time holding a remote?
I always have it to hand to skip ad's and defeat overenthusiastic sound engineers who assume we want background music 200db louder than dialogue.
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Old 12-03-2009, 11:00
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The 525.

Be warned, though, that they are a pig to program.

Once you do it is well worth it. It makes using the box a much more pleasant experience.
I thought it was quite easy to get it working in 5 minutes, then tinkered for a few days getting additional options on the right buttons.

It's good to not have a new remote to learn when you change the hardware.

I suspect my amp normalises audio. The only LOUD stuff is going to BBC HD
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Old 12-03-2009, 11:20
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The Philips remote is easy to setup and use, you dont even need to read the manual, the remote guides you through setting it up.
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Old 12-03-2009, 12:28
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The 525.

Be warned, though, that they are a pig to program.

Once you do it is well worth it. It makes using the box a much more pleasant experience.
I agree - their software is some of the least user friendly I've encountered. As two people had already done this, I am surprised that their efforts were not made generallly available from Logitech's database.
I found the key settings completely blank when I logged on and had to program everything from scratch, mostly by learning from the Humax remote. Now this is achieved it has made life much easier, so it was just about worth it.
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Old 12-03-2009, 12:50
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I thought it was quite easy to get it working in 5 minutes, then tinkered for a few days getting additional options on the right buttons.
Yes, that sounds about right.

Sorry, mrmarky, I didn't mean to imply that it was difficult to get basic functionality - just that assigning the non-standard buttons takes a while.

I actually have the original handy as I don't have every single function on the Harmony - just the ones I use 99.9% of the time.
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Old 12-03-2009, 17:22
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I'm not a fan of anything about the IR on the HDR. Mine's a little slow to respond, and the original remote doesn't set my world on fire at all. I have had a harmony, in fact a whole list of them, all broke. Currently running a pronto 9200, I like that.
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Old 16-03-2009, 05:37
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I like the remote for the humax pvr, it is easy to use with many nice features.
I'm awaiting arrival of my HDR, can anyone advise on the code to enable my remote to operate the HUMAX 9200 PVR which I will be using alongside the HDR for a while??
Thanks.
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Old 16-03-2009, 08:13
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when i 1st got my humax pvr, i hated the remote, had it 4 months now, and im fine with it, just takes time to get used to it.
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Old 16-03-2009, 13:15
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So glad others hate this badly designed doof

It is just way too long and you have to constantly move your whole hand up and down the remote to reach the buttons. All my other doofs can be held in the middle and my thumb reaches all the buttons with ease. Think someone with enormous hands must have designed this!
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Old 19-03-2009, 20:53
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I'm awaiting arrival of my HDR, can anyone advise on the code to enable my remote to operate the HUMAX 9200 PVR which I will be using alongside the HDR for a while??
Thanks.
Does anyone know this code??

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Old 20-03-2009, 10:45
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Hi fellers, first post here :]

I've had my HDR for a few weeks now - It didn't take long for me to switch to my harmony 555 after using the supplied remote...

I don't find it uncomfortable, but the button layout is no good for me; I like the number pad to be at the bottom.

Also; someone at Humax seems to have forgot to put the "previous channel" button on it (unless I've gone blind). The box does respond to the command from my harmony.

In general - apart from the obvious UI issues that everyone has a problem with - I think the box is a great product.

Great forum too!

Cheers,

Andy
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Old 20-03-2009, 11:21
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Also; someone at Humax seems to have forgot to put the "previous channel" button on it (unless I've gone blind). The box does respond to the command from my harmony.

Great forum too!

Cheers,

Andy
Hi Andy welcome to the forum heres a workaround for your previous channel button, press the i button and then the back button. you'll have to prees the i button again to clear the i plate from the screen but it's handy if you've flicked channels and want to go back but forgot the first channel number
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Old 21-03-2009, 21:47
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Hi Andy welcome to the forum heres a workaround for your previous channel button, press the i button and then the back button. you'll have to prees the i button again to clear the i plate from the screen but it's handy if you've flicked channels and want to go back but forgot the first channel number
Great stuff........must remember this as I miss having a back button.
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Old 21-03-2009, 22:20
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Does anyone know the code to operate a HUMAX 9200 from the HDR remote control?

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Old 22-03-2009, 07:55
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Does anyone know the code to operate a HUMAX 9200 from the HDR remote control?

Woolfynorm.
What makes you think there is such a code?

What 9200 functions are you expecting the Freesat HDR to operate on a 9200?
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Old 22-03-2009, 08:11
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What makes you think there is such a code?

What 9200 functions are you expecting the Freesat HDR to operate on a 9200?
Sorry I've not explained self very well. I have the 9200 and HDR side by side and just wanted to get rid of the controller for the 9200 using the universal bit of the HDR's remote control. Simple as that.

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