Originally Posted by
bampsam:
“Have been using the replacement Foxsat-HDR for over a week now, and have found it to be a more stable unit than the one returned to Argos. The 'power on and off' feature works a treat, and all scheduled recordings have worked. Could well be because this new unit is running 1.00.03......
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No, I don't think it's to do with the firmware. My unit is 1.00.02 and I have not experienced any of the lock ups/freezes/unusual behaviour of the unit that you, and some others, have reported on your original unit. Yes, I have the slow delete and other quirks which ARE firmware related, but the basic operation of the machine is, like many others, rock solid. That is why I encouraged you to get a replacement as I believe there is a batch of units out there that have an inherent hardware fault, and you were unlucky enough first time around to get one (oh, what an honour

). It would not surprise me if Humax at some point changed a component or two or they received a batch of components that were "on the edge" of their operational limits and occasionally (through heat?) 'fell over'.
It is the nature of these forums that people mainly report problems/issues/faults. Reading the forums you would think that these boxes are the worst electronic devices ever sold. But there are lots of people who, like me, pop up occasionally to report that nope: I don't get this; my unit don't have that; it doesn't do that either; it works as expected but with some annoyances. Humax will never tell us the numbers, but the returns are probably similar to any other new system, and many returns are for swaps not refunds. Humax can identify from these returned units the problems and fix them in later batches. That is the way all manufactures work.
So welcome to the club of the working Humax! You will still get an occasional recording that is not what you expect, but that will be down to the metadata the unit is receiving, not the box itself. And then when the firmware does get upgraded .... we'll have a whole new set of things to gripe about because Humax won't have fixed it the way we want it to be done.