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A few days HDR experience
I’ve now had my Foxsat HDR for a few days and have a good deal of personal experience with it over the weekend to add to the vicarious experience I’ve enjoyed these past couple of months on this forum.
It is an amazing machine with excellent picture quality in both SD and HD. I wouldn’t hesitate about recommending it, even with the known bugs and unwanted features that I was fully expecting. They may be annoying, sometimes very annoying, but they don’t prevent it being very easy to use for the vast majority of the features that will normally be used. And it will do much more than that. It’s going to transform our use of television. However, from the number of programmes I have in the schedule, it’s likely to be doing more recording than playback! But that’s part of the transformation. We’ll probably let it collect a number of programmes that we might be interested in. We’ll watch a few of them and sample most of the rest before dumping them. I’ll need to develop a personal discipline for managing programme storage, when they are deleted and which get kept. The need for that is no criticism of the HDR; it derives from the volume of programmes that can be stored and the potential for clutter that creates. Fortunately, the HDR’s folders will help a lot and I find the file management features easy to use and logical. |
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If you tell me you don't work for the FreeSat marketing department, I won't believe you
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Recording more than you watch is a clear symptom of neverHadAPVRBeforeIsm, don't worry, its not serious - it tends to clear itself up once you start deleting recordings that you haven't watched.
Goes to show - 99.5% of people on this forum are previous PVR users, they've been exposed to excellent products matured over the last few years. This makes them a bloody difficult bunch to please. |
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Recording more than you watch is a clear symptom of neverHadAPVRBeforeIsm, don't worry, its not serious - it tends to clear itself up once you start deleting recordings that you haven't watched.
Goes to show - 99.5% of people on this forum are previous PVR users, they've been exposed to excellent products matured over the last few years. This makes them a bloody difficult bunch to please. , despite 3 pvrs and loads of back up files on various HDD's still have to eventually bite the bullet and send some to the great recycling bin Sad I know but always was a bit of a hoarder as my dear lady wife will testify ![]() Unless of course it's the latest corrie, east enders, emmerdale that got binned |
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I’ve now had my Foxsat HDR for a few days and have a good deal of personal experience with it over the weekend to add to the vicarious experience I’ve enjoyed these past couple of months on this forum.
It is an amazing machine with excellent picture quality in both SD and HD. I wouldn’t hesitate about recommending it, even with the known bugs and unwanted features that I was fully expecting. They may be annoying, sometimes very annoying, but they don’t prevent it being very easy to use for the vast majority of the features that will normally be used. And it will do much more than that. It’s going to transform our use of television. However, from the number of programmes I have in the schedule, it’s likely to be doing more recording than playback! But that’s part of the transformation. We’ll probably let it collect a number of programmes that we might be interested in. We’ll watch a few of them and sample most of the rest before dumping them. I’ll need to develop a personal discipline for managing programme storage, when they are deleted and which get kept. The need for that is no criticism of the HDR; it derives from the volume of programmes that can be stored and the potential for clutter that creates. Fortunately, the HDR’s folders will help a lot and I find the file management features easy to use and logical. |
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If you tell me you don't work for the FreeSat marketing department, I won't believe you
![]() More seriously, if you look back through my posting record, you'll see that I have been quite critical of freesat at times and have had one or two goes at Bob_Cat (who works for Humax). I was just redressing the balance. |
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Recording more than you watch is a clear symptom of neverHadAPVRBeforeIsm, don't worry, its not serious - it tends to clear itself up once you start deleting recordings that you haven't watched.
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The one feature i find great is the ability to make your own play list and is one thing i wish our sky box could do.Last sat night not much on just make your own list and play it back super.
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I’ve now had my Foxsat HDR for a few days and have a good deal of personal experience with it over the weekend to add to the vicarious experience I’ve enjoyed these past couple of months on this forum.
It is an amazing machine with excellent picture quality in both SD and HD. I wouldn’t hesitate about recommending it, even with the known bugs and unwanted features that I was fully expecting. They may be annoying, sometimes very annoying, but they don’t prevent it being very easy to use for the vast majority of the features that will normally be used. And it will do much more than that. It’s going to transform our use of television. However, from the number of programmes I have in the schedule, it’s likely to be doing more recording than playback! But that’s part of the transformation. We’ll probably let it collect a number of programmes that we might be interested in. We’ll watch a few of them and sample most of the rest before dumping them. I’ll need to develop a personal discipline for managing programme storage, when they are deleted and which get kept. The need for that is no criticism of the HDR; it derives from the volume of programmes that can be stored and the potential for clutter that creates. Fortunately, the HDR’s folders will help a lot and I find the file management features easy to use and logical.
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, despite 3 pvrs and loads of back up files on various HDD's still have to eventually bite the bullet and send some to the great recycling bin
Sad I know but always was a bit of a hoarder as my dear lady wife will testify 