Originally Posted by IQ1:
“With the Humax HDR also stuck in evolutionary stasis, you would of thought the competition would of taken over and killed it off by now.*
I know it's not perfect I've had one since they came out. Let's hope Echostar an Samsung can give them some competition.*”
This absurd obsession with continually updating functioning products is one of the main causes of our always having to put up with products that don't work properly.
For someone who just wants a PVR (and not a media server) the Foxsat HDR is almost there. Unless they change some transmission method it will probably work perfectly satisfactorily for many years.
Sorting out the remaining UI niggles shouldn't take more than a man-month at the absolute most. More major features to complete it as a PVR such as remote recording setting, background deletion and file transfer, faster boot, and maybe a third tuner would make it just about perfect but are not really necessary.
But the chances of us ever getting a fully functional PVR from
any manufacturer are about nil because they always have to move on to a new product - complete with all its teething problems - to satisfy the sort of buyer who says they won't buy something that is a two year old design.
People really are their own worst enemies.