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That's a Freesat 'feature', rather than a Humax fault. SD RGB output is disabled on all HD content to prevent copying....
Hate to say it...but read the f...riendly manual!! ![]() Following on from my packaging 'bug' I'm happy to report the box works fine (thought it would) so unless the supplier insist on replacing it (not very likely), I'll keep this one I think. Would have much preferred a loose mains cable though - don't care for hard-wired ones in my AV cabinet, right pain working a 13A plug out the back. |
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After a few seconds on both BBC HD and ITV HD the SCART socket switches from RGB mode to Composite mode. It sounds as though you have the TV SCART connected to an RGB/S-Video enabled scart input only.
However, when the RGB input is manually chosen on the TV, it will no longer auto-switch to composite when the RGB signal goes. (This is when it is 'not working'). I've had this Sony telly for donkey's years and have never had this problem before. Aarrgghh. Of course the HD downscaled composite picture is poorer quality in comparison, so what on earth is the point of even bothering to downscale it! Perhaps the answer is merely - because we can, and it's another feature tick. Some of us do actually have more than one telly fed off the satellite box and deserve a decent picture on all the TVs. Taliska |
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Apologies for the treble post - I'm really not quite sure what happened there!
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After a few seonds on both BBC HD and ITV HD the SCART socket switches from RGB mode to Composite mode. It sounds as though you have the TV SCART connected to an RGB/S-Video enabled scart input only.
![]() Have to agree with others that disabling the analogue RGB OP on HD is a bit daft, but that's down to Freesat, not Humax is it not? |
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I'm not sure if anyone else has posted yet, but I found a fix for the Foxsat-HDR E-OS problem.
Indeed the update is performed using LNB-2. So if you've got one cable: 1. Plug cable into LNB-1 2. Check for updates (automatic) 3. When the message comes up saying "Do you want to update to the new firmware", carefully take the cable out and plug it into LNB-2. 4. Now press ok on the dialog box, and your box should update successfully. I think this is dangerous as you could damage your box/dish/yourself (am i right?), so I would never recommend doing it (don't do it!), but if you really really really want the new firmware, this works. |
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I'm not sure if anyone else has posted yet, but I found a fix for the Foxsat-HDR E-OS problem.
Indeed the update is performed using LNB-2. So if you've got one cable: And, to be honest, I don't intend to! -- unless Humax suggests it, and that seems pretty unlikely given the little sticker on the top! Well discovered all the same.
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On my TV when I use the remote to select one of the scart sockets the TV briefly dispalys the name of the socket, whether it is rgb/cvbs/s-video and sometimes the name of the programme.
The programme name is shonw when Technomate satellite receiver is tuned to Channel 4 and some French stations. It is not shown for BBC or ITV stations. The HDR does not even show 'Channel 4'. - A minor fault perhaps. |
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I'm not sure if anyone else has posted yet, but I found a fix for the Foxsat-HDR E-OS problem.
Indeed the update is performed using LNB-2. So if you've got one cable: Quote:
I think this is dangerous as you could damage your box/dish/yourself (am i right?), so I would never recommend doing it (don't do it!), but if you really really really want the new firmware, this works.
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I'm not sure if anyone else has posted yet, but I found a fix for the Foxsat-HDR E-OS problem.
Indeed the update is performed using LNB-2. So if you've got one cable: 1. Plug cable into LNB-1 2. Check for updates (automatic) 3. When the message comes up saying "Do you want to update to the new firmware", carefully take the cable out and plug it into LNB-2. 4. Now press ok on the dialog box, and your box should update successfully. I think this is dangerous as you could damage your box/dish/yourself (am i right?), so I would never recommend doing it (don't do it!), but if you really really really want the new firmware, this works.
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Presumably it will work if you simply connect the loop through to the LNB-2 input, as it describes in the manual?
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It would seem the thumbnails are only created at about 03:00 the next morning if your box is in standby at that time.
Thus for any program you record and want to watch the same day you get no thumbnails. No 100% proof this is the case but this is from my observation of what it seems to do. Automan. (Incidentally, I got my box today and I have no thumbnails on any of my test recordings.) |
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You will tomorrow....thumbnails will be there in the morning
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That would seem very odd. It would have to come out of standby to do that. Has anyone been up at 3:00 to see if that happens?
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Sorry - didn't pick up on the nuance of that.
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Programme (Film) split by the news
I read that the HDR was supposed to deal with programmes that are split by a news programme.
Well, I've found an instance where the HDR doesn't cope with this. Earlier tonight, I started watching the film on Five, and decided to record the rest of it to watch later (I simply pressed the rec button on the remote). The first part recorded fine, but the second part after the news did not record. I guess if I'd have scheduled it, instead of recording on the fly, it would have recorded both parts. |
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I guess if I'd have scheduled it, instead of recording on the fly, it would have recorded both parts.
Also, how long did the instant recording last? On the Humax Freeview PVR, an instant recording will record until the end of the programme, on the HDR - depending where you start recording, it might record beyond the end of the programme... |
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I've found that if you're watching something that is still recording then as soon as the recording finishes, it jumps to live tv, rather than just carrying on with playing back what's been recorded.
The PVR-9200T doesn't do that, so I suspect something is not quite right, if it's a bug, It needs to be sorted pretty quickly. Otherwise everything else OK. Rgds Bob. |
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You will tomorrow....thumbnails will be there in the morning
I was going to say how bizarre, but I just figured out why.... I was wondering why it doesn't just make the thumbnails as it records, but when you think about it, it doesn't necessarily know how long the recording will be (you might cancel it early) so it doesn't know what 1/8th of the recording is. So it has to re-visit the whole recording when its finished to add the thumbnails, and as it can't really do that whilst you are asking the box to do lots of other things at the same time, that's why it wakes at 3.00 a.m. to do it. It's still a bit daft though imho. The drawback of this approach is that you don't have any thumbnails until minimum the next day. Another approach would have been to look at how long the recording was supposed to last, divide it by 8 and take a thumbnail every n minutes where n= T/8. Of course if you stop the recording early, then you wouldn't get 8 thumbnails, so that would be another compromise, but I could live with that and it would prevent the need to wake the box up in the middle of the night. |
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This is correct. Split Event recording uses the metadata. When you perform a instant recording the box just records the channel you are on and does not use the metadata.
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Also, how long did the instant recording last? On the Humax Freeview PVR, an instant recording will record until the end of the programme, on the HDR - depending where you start recording, it might record beyond the end of the programme...
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I can confirm that that happens to me aswell, jumping to live TV when chase playing is very annoying.
The PVR-9200T doesn't do that, so I suspect something is not quite right, if it's a bug, It needs to be sorted pretty quickly. Otherwise everything else OK. Rgds Bob. |
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The PVR-9200T doesn't do that, so I suspect something is not quite right, if it's a bug, It needs to be sorted pretty quickly.
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It doesn't do this with and instant record (and watched from the Playlist). Tested this the other day, and came to the conclusion that in some certain circumstances it does drop you out to live TV but not all the time...
(So when it does - it must be a 'PVR' thing... )
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Presumably it will work if you simply connect the loop through to the LNB-2 input, as it describes in the manual?
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