Rang Humax this morning who weren't really much help regarding faulty unit.
Got in touch with Richer Sounds who don't have any stocks of the 1TB to replace with. They have 650 on order, but still waiting for Humax to deliver and dont know when that will be so initially decided on a refund.
Came to a solution which I'm happy with which is to replace with a 500GB model instead which is coming tomorrow and have been refunded with £40 which has already appeared in my PayPal account.

Why is anyone buying this unit? Since the .16 update my unit does not chase play and cannot record anything, let alone the first recording. Only one channel is working. It's an overpriced no-recorder!

I also have low hopes for the .22 firmware. I'll keep the unit to see what the OTA does in a few weeks but have bought a replacement unit from another maker - at less than half the price. It can't be any more disappointing than this experience. No problems up to Christmas either, which adds insult.

The Humax goes back at the end of Feb if no +ve feedback on this and other forums by then. Clock's ticking

Wish Topfield did a dual tuner freesat box

The beta .22 firmware solved all my recording issues.
Why not try it?.

if i was u i would seriously update ur unit to the .22 update vua the beta software site, many have done it on here, including muself, and has resolved just about all the issues i had, the main 1 being the recording issue.

Thanks, some +ve news.

I'll wait for the OTA. I don't have the time to check the warranty situation regarding Betas and feel I've done enough testing for them.

If it's as good as you say and all known critical issues are resolved then it shouldn't be long to GA via OTA

It's an interim fix for the recording issues. The next ota is expected to be feature adding (and will of course incorporate the fix).

and i dare say installing the beta firmware from the humax site would void ur warranty, if that was the case i very much doubt they would publish it online where it can b downloaded and installed, with instructions....

I'm over the moon with mine, I actually rate it above a Sky+ HD box which it has replaced. A work colleague who bought one at the same time as me this last weekend is similarly impressed. The .22 firmware appears to have worked a treat too, so for me so far, highly recommended.

Firmware upgrades are easily removed simply by installing a new one over the top. Done hundreds of recordings on the new version without issues.

yep and snap i havent had a failed recording since installin .22, well happy with it now, and as say only thing that needs now is 4OD and 5 and will be complete, ohh and maybe flixster or blinkbox wouldnt go amiss

Resolving the text wrap would be nice, it's most annoying

yes i must agree and thats first thing i noticed when got mine, it never did it on thefoxsat hdr and doesnt do it on my technisat..... scroll once to let me know what is but that will do, and even then doesnt need t do that as i go into my recording so i know what i watching lol

Ha Ha regarding the scrolling text, seeing Coronation Street constantly moving accross the front of the box is quite annoying out of the corner of my eye.
My wife keeps moaning about not having a clock display instead as we already know what we're watching as that's what we chose to watch in the first place.

Do you not think that the programme Information Text could be a wee bit larger as well?

maybe just a tad, but i manage wi the size it is, as i say i know what i watching from the recorded list so doesnt even necessatily need to b there, let alone scrolling

I'm talking about the text wrap arounds in the listings/recordings etc. not the ticker banner on the front - that doesn't bother me one way or the other.

Does anyone know what Automatic power down does in the power saving menu?

Puts the unit into standby if there has been no remote control activity for, I think, 3 hours.

Thanks, I best let the wife know as it has been know for her to leave ITV on in the morning watching Jezza and This Morning with no remote activity.
It would of been nice if there would of been some sort of summary in the booklet with a brief description of all the settings options.

hence y i have mine set to 'off'

Yes, I'm not a great fan of this myself, and have posted several grumbles about it on the Freesat forum.

The more recordings you accumulate, the more annoying it becomes, I find, and the page numbering - "12-5/16" or whatever - is no help at all.

After all, if this forum were designed so that, when you've scrolled past the most recent post, you come to the start of the conversation again, and that continued ad inifinitum, with no dates on the posts to help, I think that would be similarly annoying

Aye, that has caught me out a couple of times I must say. If the first programme in my recorded list was Top Gear after I have scrolled down through the other programmes/pages it ends back at the same Top Gear episode . A couple of times I have thought it was an old recording and deleted it assuming it was at the end of the list and not the list going back to the start.

Since the last update rewind function has become a pain, had a few freezes/reboots.

But the new pain in the arse is a few series linked programmes no longer appearing in my planner or showing the red Rec icon on the EPG, even though it still records them usual.

So for example I have Call The Midwife on BBC1 and Top Gear on BBC2 (both broadcast at the same time) and both on series link, yet there is no indication that Call The Midwife is set to record (in either the planner or on the EPG)
So of course I hit record again thinking it is no longer in my planner.

I then get the rather bizarre choice of either cancelling CTM that I have just set to record or cancelling CTM that is in my planner but not actually showing up in the planner or on the EPG.

Im not even sure that makes sense typing it it.

Next Sundays Call The Midwife (BBC1-HD) is in my schedule and is flagged on the epg.

I'm probably going to show myself up as stupid now but I can't fathom what those figures are meant to represent. I have got quite a bit recorded on my 1000s now and struggle to understand where my recordings start or finish and what the hell those figures mean. Really should be easier than this.

I've come across another anomaly this evening. I was watching Being Human and noticed that the programme info ticker was stationary - e.g. static info, simply said "Being Human". Stayed like that for the entire programme. As soon as I selected another recording the ticker started scrolling as per normal.

if the programme title fits along the screen it has no need to scroll.....so therefore doesnt scroll