If anything, Windows 7 has been shipped ahead of schedule. However, if you take the view that Windows 7 is what Vista *should* have been, then it's 2 years late

I have Windows 7 RTM* running on my main PC, an HTPC in the lounge, a high-end laptop and a netbook. It's running well on all of these devices and I'm very impressed with it.

*I have a Technet subscription, so I've had the release version for a couple of months.

Mine was.

Arrived on Monday from PC World.

Yes... PC World!

That's what I thought - both sentences.

Good luck with Windows 7 - at least the Humax upgrade will have been tested before it gets released

I would imagine several thousand times as many people have been testing W7 as have tested the Foxsat. It works very nicely.

And MS do manage to bring out updates to a reasonable schedule.

Yes, a few hundred megs worth of updates for W7 already
Most of my trouble stems from trying to use AHCI - when will MS/Intel figure that one out properly . Also had a few unexplained total freezes (not BSODs) .
MS are the bane of my working life, but I can't work without them I do so enjoy the times I actually get to work with a real OS.

Oops! It was the beta and RTM versins that were delayed.

However, some vendors are emailing customers stating that "due to unexpected volumns", there will be a delay in processing their order. Now, whether this is a one off with one supplier or, MS failing to get enough 'out there' I don't know. Also, 'the unexpected volumns' must have been a real surprise.

Also, it has to be recognised that MS is a tad bigger than Humax. It's probably got, hmm, about three or four people, doing uprades.

Well I got my shrink wrap W7 Pro yesterday and a couple of W7 home premiums today.

Vendors talking about 'unexpected volumes' at this stage are almost certainly lying. They will only be dealing with pre-orders at the moment so they can't really be 'unexpected'.

Unless, of course, people suddenly started pre-ordering this week.

And Back on Topic!


Just reading an article on a Grundig freesat update in "The Register" and it also stated that the Humax update was scheduled for "Mid November". Doesn't say whether its for the HDR or standard box though.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/10...d_freesat_fix/

See last sentence.


Graham.

C'mon, Graham, keep up; this was reported in post #115

Rgds.


Les.

Silly me!


Must have been hiding in all that Windows 7 stuff.


Graham.

But which November ?????

At what time will the update be available in new boxes off the shelves do you think? I don't have a box yet. I have been waiting for all these issues to be resolved , and I don't like buying first generation kit for that reason

Below is a pdf of the dutch version of this humax hdr in english ,although its cable hdr , it looks like most of the firmware update has been written long ago it has ftp transfer to a pc to store recordings etc.

http://www.humaxdigital.com/global/p...011909_low.pdf

Nice bit of investigation there

Now there is even less of an excuse not to enable FTP functionality. The HDR software is quite clearly spawned from the same code base as the dutch cable model and as such the code which handles the FTP functionality should be easy to implement/transfer if its already working

Further thought - I wonder if the dutch cable model records after suffering a power cut

It does look quite familiar. Interesting that it also formats the USB device, a fairly obvious feature for such a device. Yes please, can we have similar on the Foxsat (plus all the other fixes of course).

Anyone spotted a DS equivalent for the Dutch model, and if they have similar complaints. As we know, just because it's in the user guide does not mean it actually works. Maybe it will be made to work in the next release

Here the product similar yes?

http://www.humaxdigital.com/global/p..._ihdr5050c.asp

If you go to the ihdr5050c manual it shows this a another product that proves they can enable FTP, in fact there is an option to enable or disable this function (page GB43).

This surely means it is extremely easy for them to implement FTP if HUMAX wish to. I wonder then why it isn't that on the list so far of enhancements at the HUMMY site? We have waited long enough - so it would be nice to have it listed as an enhancement .

Patrick

In the immortal words of Homer Simpson, "Doh", Just realised this is the product Richard referred to earlier!! At least the reference page has been posted now though now... ironically a "GB" page number!!

Patrick

Here is a dutch forum and they say if you translate it into english, that FTP works great.

http://www.cardwriter-forum.nl/digit...5050c-5443.htm