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I hope I can add some questions as I've just got a Foxsat too.
Can you record ITVHD unencrypted like BBCHD? |
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This has to be the saddest thread of the year.
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This has to be the saddest thread of the year.
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Looks like you've been had for the sake of forty quid.
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Compared to every other STB and PVR (including the out of the box Topfield EPG), the EPG on the HDR is the best.
I can’t find a pic of the DigiFusion EPG, but I just found this pics of a Mac-based EPG called EyeTV. This was the kind of thing I was hoping for from an HD box, but sadly Humax opted to keep the menu the same size for both SD and HD outputs, which is daft in my opinion. (No doubt more Freesat regulations!) Seeing a PC-based EPG has made me seriously think about opting for a PC-based solution rather than a set-top box. It seems there is no HD box on the market that fully utilises the 1920x1080 resolution to show maximum listing information, and that is what I’m looking for. Quote:
The Topfield EPG can be seen here http://www.toppy.org.uk/newusers/manual2a.php - how bad is that ? Four channels at a time and you can't really read half the program names either.
But, in my opinion, even that GUI is better than the Foxsat GUI. At least it’s very fast and the cursor never slows down, and you can easily see the listings for each channel. Quote:
The above posts are looking more and more like a troll - would anyone really buy a secondhand HDR from ebay to save just £40 ?
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Swedish cook.....yes I had my suspicions from the outset, especially given the Christmas morning timing,
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and the complete absence of any positive comments which would be impossible from am impartial viewpoint.
Crucially though, I wasn’t posting a review. I was posting a request for help on 12 different problems I was having (and still am having). Trolling is when someone tries to waste other people’s time at minimal effort of their own. A troll will typically post one message and leave the thread alone. I have been very active on this thread and clearly invested a lot of time here. That isn’t what trolls do. Quote:
To everybody else who has a Foxsat HDR, I suggest you enjoy it and avoid this feed.
Troll accusations seem to be everywhere on DS, and it’s just getting silly. I’ve only ever seen one genuine instance of trolling in 16 years on the Web, and that was over 10 years ago. Why is everyone so wary about something that hardly ever happens? Quote:
Please, please, it is Christmas.
![]() You have to see it from my point of view, my other PVR has been on the blink lately, and one of my family is ill and bedridden in the living room. She was counting on this box to make Christmas better, but we are really struggling with it, and can’t get it to do what we want. Quote:
Humax follow the Freesat Specification, it is Freesat that impose the limitations you describe in Freesat mode. Given that, you are unlikely to get a better Freesat PVR.
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I agree that the ability to schedule and record programs on non-Freesat channels would be nice. However, the ability to record at all is a bonus. (I pay a hefty subscription to Sky and can't record any ITV region or BBC 3 or BBC 4.
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Cm'on, that's well over the top.
Since I was born, I have been able to arrange the channels on my TV into any order I please. I consider this my right as a TV viewer, and I’ll be darned if anyone is going to take that right away from me. Quote:
If you don't like the Freesat approach, fair enough. However, don't hold Humax to account for issues outside their control.
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What I really want is to integrate everything into a single solution such as Windows Media Player. The concept is simple - all media available on a single server, ideally with a touchscreen interface.
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This has to be the saddest thread of the year.
The only “sad” thing is that many of my questionst are still unanswered. And some of them were only simple things that every user should know, like how to record a programme you have just finished watching? (Which I still haven’t figured out how to do.) |
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like how to record a programme you have just finished watching? (Which I still haven’t figured out how to do.)
Surely you have to record programmes while you are watching them? I know there is a live pause buffer but I don't think it can be used to save a whole programme unless the length of the buffer is larger than the programmes length. |
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I know there is a live pause buffer but I don't think it can be used to save a whole programme unless the length of the buffer is larger than the programmes length.
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I think most PVR buffers are 30m or 1 hour long. So if you watch a half-hour programme on any PVR and press record during the end credits, it will save the whole thing. The Foxsat doesn’t seem to do that by default though, unless I’m doing something wrong here.
The menu system is a little complicated. I figured out how to copy files relatively quickly but it isn't very intuitive. |
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I think most PVR buffers are 30m or 1 hour long. So if you watch a half-hour programme on any PVR and press record during the end credits, it will save the whole thing. The Foxsat doesn’t seem to do that by default though, unless I’m doing something wrong here.
Really, if you don't have INSTANT EPG population though you hyave either been sold a dud (unfortunately that does happen occasionally on ebay) or your reception of Eurobird (where the EPG comes from) is not good. Unfortunately unless you can prove the age of the unit Topfield will not cover you. "I’d have gladly bought it second hand to save £10. Maybe even £5." Jesus (excuse me at Christmas) do you expect us to take this thread seriously after that ? Glad you agree that the EPG is way way better than the Topfield one ! |
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Yep, buying a £250 item second hand to save £5 = nonsense of the 'utter' variety.
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Yep, buying a £250 item second hand to save £5 = nonsense of the 'utter' variety.
OK, you don’t have the same buyer rights on eBay, but a brand new item like that, you don’t expect it to be faulty, especially when it is advertised as being in perfect working order. Anyway the RRP is £230. |
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There is no RRP for the Foxsat-HDR, the only time Humax have made any statement about price was the price point of £299.
Bob |
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What I meant was £230 was the cheapest retail price I could find.
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