Originally Posted by ClashcityRocker:
“Anyone know if Sansung are taking the SMT-7800 seriously yet?
The lack of a recording padding feature is killing me, we have missed the start and end of several recordings of late. It's all very well for Samsung and the broadcasters to squabble amnongst themselves about who is to blame, but poor old comsumers are the ones suffering.
I also had a very strange lockup. We werre playing back a previously recorded show, and during the playback a recording started. When we came to end the recording, the box would not respond to the remote, or the front panel controls(the recording light was still on). Eventually after I knew the recording program had finished, I pulled the plug. Very suprised to see the program it was recording was still viewable, but had overrun massively (well over 2hrs for a 1 hr show), i'm guessing it was locked up so badly, the stop command failed to stop it.
The other problem, you can get it to stutter if you use ff/rew in a certain sequence when playing back shows. You have to stop it and resume playback to fix that.
I hope the forthcoming update fixes these issues.”
I had this problem over christmas (think i even mentioned it on here). It was very annoying because I had to wait (and guess) for the end of the recording before restarting the box so I could gain control of it.
I had a similar problem last night. I was watching a video from a USB drive on the STB then when a scheduled recording started the video stuttered, then stopped and the box would respond. I ended up restarting the box so it could record the scheduled program, then I watched the video off of my PS3 (a reliable device lol).
Personally I dont think this STB has enough power to handle multiple things at once. I dont see why not though because you could build a small computer for around £300 (samsungs original RRP).
I had another problem the other day also. When I reset the box (because of the missing library problem), I noticed all my recordings had Audio Description on. I had not set it, it had somehow become turned on (only me that goes into the settings on the box).
TBH I am getting disappointed with this box and Samsungs ability to update it.
I had the Humax HDR-fox-t2 before this, and it was faultless. I only sold it because Freeview signals in my area are hit & miss.
Does anyone know whether or not we can claim for a refund on the grounds of the box not being capable of doing what it claims to do?