Hi,

My mum-in-law has an HDR Fox T2, bought a year or so ago. It is not currently connected to the internet (the router is at the other end of the house). She occasionally watches programmes on BBC iPlayer on her laptop, but would prefer to do so on her (not-smart) TV, and has asked me what her options are.

I see from the FOX-T2 instruction book that it has an iPlayer app, so one option is to run a cable from the router to it, but before planning to do so I'd appreciate some help:

- I know that the BBC provided a new iPlayer recently and broke some older equipment. Does the FOX-T2 version still work? It's running standard firmware, version unknown, and I don't want to install any of the custom builds. I'm too far away to sort out problems for her! I can certainly update it to a new official firmware release.

- If it works, is the iPlayer on this box any good, in terms of quality/usability? Her internet connection is ~16Mbit/s, so no problem there.

- An alternative is a NowTV box, which I have and it works well. Unfortunately I'll only be visiting her for a few days, so I need to organize anything like that before I go so that it's waiting for me. I don't want to get there and find the Humax doesn't work, since it will be too late to order a NowTV box & install it.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.

What version of firmware is the box running? If it is earlier than 1.03.06 then iPlayer won't work. See

http://hummy.tv/forum/threads/things...58/#post-28588

You can download the latest version here

http://www.humaxdigital.com/uk/produ...?gid=476&pid=6

Simple enough to do, just need a USB stick and be able to find the hidden front USB port on the Fox-T2 if you can't get round the back easily (it has a plastic cover that needs to be popped off).

Mind you last time I tried to use the Humax TV Portal to get at iPlayer it didn't work and that is with the latest firmware on board. And in the past when the TV Portal was working it was a complete pain in the wotsits.

I'm not too bothered as for the very few occasions I use iPlayer I can use the TV (when it bothers to work) or the laptop plugged into the telly.

To be honest I would spend a tenner on a Now TV box and be done with it if you need more than very occasional use. Plus of course you'll probably have loads of other stuff the Humax doesn't have.

Thanks. Given that it'll cost me at least a fiver for an Ethernet cable to connect the Fox T2, it does look like NowTV is a better bet. Good feedback on the Humax TV Portal, I have a Humax satellite receiver and the user interface is idiosyncratic, to say the least! If the DTT bix is as odd then it's another reason to go with NowTV.