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#251 |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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[quote=pwah]The hummy has changed the way my husband and I watch TV forever. It has been a real trooper over the months but I would dearly love to have these benefits.
50 timers automatically insert and extra 5 minutes to the beginning and the end of a schedule recording. When they get round to adding a proper chase play, that will change the way you two watch TV yet again. I still manage with an old Pace Twin - waiting for newer models to sort out their problems, the Pace being almost bug free at last! Except for BBC channels and live sport, I invariably use chase play to watch TV. I can start watching The West Wing 15 minutes late, and by skipping the adverts, end up watching in live time. I'm sure the advertisers don't like it. I can also set it to automatically add a few minutes to the start and end of each recording. If Pace could do this several years ago, it shouldn't be a big problem to solve. Mike. Sorry, there's a split infinitive in that last paragraph. My late English master will be turning in his grave. |
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#252 |
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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Now that I have recorded and protected the 4 episodes of The Vrigin Queen, it makes me want a facility whereby I can shift the order of recordings displayed in the 'recorded' menu ... so that I could have contiguous and sensible lists of recorded programmes.
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#253 |
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Originally Posted by lamplight
Now that I have recorded and protected the 4 episodes of The Vrigin Queen, it makes me want a facility whereby I can shift the order of recordings displayed in the 'recorded' menu ... so that I could have contiguous and sensible lists of recorded programmes.
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#254 |
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Originally Posted by farmermike
When they get round to adding a proper chase play, that will change the way you two watch TV yet again. I still manage with an old Pace Twin - waiting for newer models to sort out their problems, the Pace being almost bug free at last! Except for BBC channels and live sport, I invariably use chase play to watch TV. I can start watching The West Wing 15 minutes late, and by skipping the adverts, end up watching in live time. I'm sure the advertisers don't like it.
I can also set it to automatically add a few minutes to the start and end of each recording. If Pace could do this several years ago, it shouldn't be a big problem to solve. Mike. Pleased you like the Pace Twin. My sister tells me her husband bought a Pace twin 3 years ago to replace his even older Tivo and had terrible problems. I am really glad to see the company has got round to removing all the faults. Its a shame that she didnt hold on to the Twin for another year or so, as their Humax 8000t is only a single tuner machine. |
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#255 |
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: West Midlands, UK
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Originally Posted by humaxman
No Gaps between MP3 Tracks. I like to listen to audio books and the 1 to 2 second gap between tracks is very annoying.
I guess the Humax could observe the enc_delay and enc_padding tags but they're non-standard. However, it does sound like there's scope to reduce the gap to a minimum. A better solution would be support for a superior format such as Ogg Vorbis. I'd like that but it's nowhere near the top of my 9200T wish-list, which is... [list=1][*]Chase play.[*]Cached EPG.[*]Auto-padding.[*]Named timers.[*]More options (delete, etc) on the play list.[/list] |
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#256 |
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 33
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My thoughts would be :
1. Chase play. 2. Increase number of timers 3. On repeat timers able to set for daily during the week as opposed to every day 4. Auto-padding 5. Able to move on list programmes recorded. Sorry if any of these have been mentioned before. |
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#257 |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 67
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My Top 5 Wish List
1. Auto padding for recording, with the amount of minutes before and after configurable by menu with a suggested default of 2 minutes before and 5 minutes after.
2. Switch the fan off when in standby. This can be quite noisy in a quiet room and is a waste of electricity. 3. Allow the UHF tuner output of the 9200T to be turned off with the suggested method being the same menu that lists the available channels for the UHF tuner to use having an additonal option saying something like Disabled or None. I am sure having this on degrades my analogue TV picture quality (even though the channel I selected for the 9200T (63) is nowhere near the low Crystal Palace/Croydon/BlueBell Hill analogue TV channels 23, 26, 30, 33, 37, 43) whereas when I put the 9200T into standby the picture improves - particularly the lpictures from the low powered transmitter of Croydon Channel 5 and the even lower powered Bluebell Hill ITV 1. 4. Chase play. 5. Cut down the number of button presses to select, play, and delete recorded programmes. For example: Have the colour buttons and the OK on the handset used to select frequently used play associated functions when otherwise not used e.g. press OK once to bring up the play (recorded programmes) list, OK to select the highlighted programme and play, red to delete, yellow to edit etc. And while in the play list, have the i button show programme information instead of having to start playing the programme and then use the i button to get the information. |
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#258 |
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bworth
3. Allow the UHF tuner output of the 9200T to be turned off with the suggested method being the same menu that lists the available channels for the UHF tuner to use having an additonal option saying something like Disabled or None. I am sure having this on degrades my analogue TV picture quality (even though the channel I selected for the 9200T (63) is nowhere near the low Crystal Palace/Croydon/BlueBell Hill analogue TV channels 23, 26, 30, 33, 37, 43) whereas when I put the 9200T into standby the picture improves - particularly the lpictures from the low powered transmitter of Croydon Channel 5 and the even lower powered Bluebell Hill ITV 1.
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#259 |
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 59
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My Five:
[list][*]Series Link[*]Program reminder/auto-tune[*]Chase Play[*]Do something when playing MP3's (screen saver, TV muted etc)[*]Easier control of MP3 order and navigation[/list] |
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#260 |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kent
Posts: 8,954
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I dont know if its been mentioned before but I would really like some better games. My other half plays Bugs Opera all the time and she drives me nuts with it... Please change the games...
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#261 |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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My top five wishes...
Here's our top five wishes...
1. EPG - store when on standby so it doesn't take so long to populate. 2. Keep time when on standby - ours keeps losing time and fails to record - VERY annoying. 3. Easier to delete recorded programmes. 4. Record all instances of a given programme. 5. Automatically record extra minutes at the end of a programme - it's very annoying to miss the last five minutes! Ben |
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#262 |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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My list
1) Auto-padding of recordings, or at least the name shouldn't change if you pad manually.
2) Chase a recording. 3) Recording only on weekdays, or better only when the name of the program hasn't changed. 4) Faster EPG. 5) Manually change the channel names. |
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#263 |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 3
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Originally Posted by bernard brookes
1) Increase timers 100+ and/or introduce "passport" recordings
a) Passport - where I can set it to record say "eastenders" and it would every occurrence of eastenders on the EPG, continually until I stop it. I do think passport recordings are important and cannot understand why more PVR's don't incorporate it. Repeats can then be deleted manually. Ben |
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#264 |
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 9
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Some more wishes
1. Chase Play
2. Passport Record 3. Ability to organise programmes into (user created) folders 4. Better search facility in EPG ( Sort by Channel, Date, Time or all three) 5. Padding (and taking the correct Pgm information) My 2p worth Patrick Morgan (Very happy ex Sagem owner - Now with Humax 9200T) |
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#265 |
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 2,974
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Originally Posted by benjamind
As the PVR stores the programme information - perhaps it could use that to avoid recording repeats?
Ben |
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#266 |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 80
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My number 1 request (for the 8000T)...
The ability to watch recorded programs whilst the tuner is being used to record. Other PVRs can do this; why not the Humax? |
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#267 |
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 7
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Hello MrKipling. I understood this thread to be in relation to gathering requests for the model 9200t PVR. Perhaps a dedicated one for the 8000t is very much in order however!
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#268 |
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 2,974
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mrkipling2
The ability to watch recorded programs whilst the tuner is being used to record. Other PVRs can do this; why not the Humax?
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#269 |
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Leeds
Posts: 34
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Been using the Humax now for a month after changing from a digifusion 200, here are my top 5 in order
1) More than 20 timers. 2) Allow the program synopsis on recorded programmes to be viewed without having to play it 3) Chase play - I really miss this after using the digifusion and it's what a PVR should do. 4) Programme reminders - Another feature I miss from the digifusion 5) Don't clear the buffer when going into the menu Can I have just 1 more, oh please 6) When you press pause whilst watching a recorded programme there is a delay of a second or so before it pauses, would like it instant, and also allow it to be advanced frame by frame If these get done and the lockup problems are sorted this will put it head and shoulders above the rest for me, at the moment I am tempted to go back to the digifusion |
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#270 |
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 152
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I would like the information bar that comes up when pressing the "i" button to be channel scrollable. What I mean is that pressing the "i" button brings up the bar, then pressing up or down on the navigation keys scrolls through the channels' information bars without actually changing the channel. It would allow you to see what's on now/next on other channels without bringing up the disruptive guide. My inferior Panasonic TUCT20 did this, so it's surprising the Humax doesn't.
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#271 |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 86
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I haven't had the box long but some of the limitations are already clearly obvious.
1. More than 20 'reservations' - surely this can be EASILY increased? 2. EPG Data Stored on HDD 3. The 'repeat reservation' function to include Weekday-Daily, etc (ie, record Monday-Friday, but not at the weekends.) 4. Auto-padding - global auto-padding settings (including correctly named recordings) 5. Program reminders. (Virtually identical to reservations, but instead of recording the box merely reminds you that the program is about to start) I'd be one happy camper if the HUMAX team could add/amend these features. Wooo! |
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#272 |
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Posts: 502
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This thread has been running 4 months....
is there any sign that a) Humax have noted these comments b) Humax will make any changes (any "accepted" or "rejected") c) any new model due (with ethernet I hope!) indicating that they view this market as emerging and worthwhile? |
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#273 |
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Hertfordshire
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where have been signs and coded messages for a few weeks...
the latest posts about this subject seemes to be in the "about our wish list" thread though
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#274 |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 47
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GwiDan
I would like the information bar that comes up when pressing the "i" button to be channel scrollable. What I mean is that pressing the "i" button brings up the bar, then pressing up or down on the navigation keys scrolls through the channels' information bars without actually changing the channel. It would allow you to see what's on now/next on other channels without bringing up the disruptive guide. My inferior Panasonic TUCT20 did this, so it's surprising the Humax doesn't.
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#275 |
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 7
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1. Time auto-padding on recordings.
2. Ability to watch a recording whilst it's being recorded (chase play). 3. To to be able to set a reminder, i.e. switch to channel instead of recording it, if you want to watch something live but currently viewing something else. 4. Intelligent buffering. When channel surfing don't wipe buffer contents until new channel viewed for say 30 seconds. 5. Ability to automatically scan and record a programme by name. |
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