Originally Posted by BlackJohnny:
“Stumbled across this thread while searching for solutions to the problems I've had with the above.
I've had the Foxsat since February and it worked fine with my Pioneer 435XDE via HDMI.
I came back from holiday on 29th October to be greeted by a green screen when trying to do anything with the Humax. Other SD inputs on HDMI (DVD player etc) were OK.
I contacted Currys, where I bought the box, and without even asking what the problem was, they simply said go and swap it for a new one at your nearest store.
It sounded like a solution, so duly obliged. Seems a bit wasteful, but hey.
New box - same problem, so picked it up with both Pioneer and Humax. Some mutual finger-pointing ensued, the upshot of which was that the HDMI card in my Pioneer was faulty and needed replacing (actually, I didn't hear too much from Humax - they seem very unresponsive as an organisation)
New HDMI card, £120 bill and problem solved. But while getting the board swapped, the engineer commented that the new card has had a major redesign, and the problem is probably the same as Pioneer had with the SkyHD boxes, i.e. the HDCP chip was kippered.
I then noticed that the Humax box had received an upgrade dated 25th October (v1.00.11). Is this what caused the problem? Does this trash the HDMI board? If so, is anyone else out there having the same issue?
Call me Mr Paranoid, but I darkly suspect that we are not being told something here, and I really wonder if I should be expected to fork out £120 to fix a known issue which is being suppressed?”
“Stumbled across this thread while searching for solutions to the problems I've had with the above.
I've had the Foxsat since February and it worked fine with my Pioneer 435XDE via HDMI.
I came back from holiday on 29th October to be greeted by a green screen when trying to do anything with the Humax. Other SD inputs on HDMI (DVD player etc) were OK.
I contacted Currys, where I bought the box, and without even asking what the problem was, they simply said go and swap it for a new one at your nearest store.
It sounded like a solution, so duly obliged. Seems a bit wasteful, but hey.
New box - same problem, so picked it up with both Pioneer and Humax. Some mutual finger-pointing ensued, the upshot of which was that the HDMI card in my Pioneer was faulty and needed replacing (actually, I didn't hear too much from Humax - they seem very unresponsive as an organisation)
New HDMI card, £120 bill and problem solved. But while getting the board swapped, the engineer commented that the new card has had a major redesign, and the problem is probably the same as Pioneer had with the SkyHD boxes, i.e. the HDCP chip was kippered.
I then noticed that the Humax box had received an upgrade dated 25th October (v1.00.11). Is this what caused the problem? Does this trash the HDMI board? If so, is anyone else out there having the same issue?
Call me Mr Paranoid, but I darkly suspect that we are not being told something here, and I really wonder if I should be expected to fork out £120 to fix a known issue which is being suppressed?”
Same problems here, same Pioneer display and a Foxsat HDR. Screen has been up for 5 years or so, the Foxsat was bought when first came out, perhaps 2.5 years ago? The green screen came on yesterday and I can't get rid of it (well, it will sometimes go away for a few seconds if I reboot the Foxsat).
I've called Pioneer and they asked me to register here http://www.pioneer.eu/uk/content/press/news/hdreg.html which I've done (even though I'm not a Sky subscriber).
I'm prepared to pay for a new HDCP board if that's what it takes, my display is wall mounted and it wouldn't be trivial to replace it as the Pioneer has a special cable (not HDMI) buried in the plaster to it
