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We got our PVR this weekend, and we love it. I've never seen our Bravia's pictures look so good in both SD and HD, even better than the inbuilt tuner. The colours look rich and natural. Everything looks gorgeous.
We are so happy that we won't have to use our awful Topfield PVR anymore, and will be using the Humax from now on. The only thing we miss from the Topfield is the skip buttons with different skip times for each button (and one skip back button), but the Humax is so good, we can live with that. The recorded programmes start right at the beginning, whereas we had to pad with the Topfield. The series link works perfectly too. The unit is very quiet. We live in a very quiet house and even the clock ticking can be blooming annoying, but we can barely hear the Humax. It does everything it should do and we are very happy with it, although it's probably a little overpriced. |
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Thanks Graham
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We got our PVR this weekend, and we love it. I've never seen our Bravia's pictures look so good in both SD and HD, even better than the inbuilt tuner. The colours look rich and natural. Everything looks gorgeous.
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The recorded programmes start right at the beginning, whereas we had to pad with the Topfield. The series link works perfectly too.
Just to prepare you for some disappointments, don't expect this to last. It won't be the HDR's fault when it fails. Recordings starting and ending correctly relies on timely information being transmitted by the broadcaster. BBC are good at this. Other broadcasters can have there moments. In the past week I've had a recording from ITV3 cut short four minutes from the end of the programme. It looked as if they simply signalled the start and end of programme at the scheduled time not the actual time. Similarly for series link. I have ITV's Wild At Heart set to series record in HD. Last night I noticed that the recording schedule had not updated to next week's programme. A little investigation showed that next weeks programme is not identified as be part of a series in the EPG, nor is it identified as being available in HD (although it says it is in the information).
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I have a BRAVIA KDL-40X2000 TV and agree that the pictures delivered by the Humax PVR are excellent.
Just one irritation - when I initially turn on the TV I always have to change the source to HDMI. Is there any way to set this source as a default? |
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I have a BRAVIA KDL-40X2000 TV and agree that the pictures delivered by the Humax PVR are excellent.
Just one irritation - when I initially turn on the TV I always have to change the source to HDMI. Is there any way to set this source as a default? |
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I have a sony and it seems sonys dont communicate well with the Humax so there is nothing we can do about it. Its manual switching and turning off and on for us.
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I have a sony and it seems sonys dont communicate well with the Humax so there is nothing we can do about it. Its manual switching and turning off and on for us.
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I have a BRAVIA KDL-40X2000 TV and agree that the pictures delivered by the Humax PVR are excellent.
Just one irritation - when I initially turn on the TV I always have to change the source to HDMI. Is there any way to set this source as a default? |
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First impressions on the whole are positive.
1) It worked straight out of the box and it updated itself without problem. 2) On a mate's Sony LCD (@1080i) there were no major differences with his existing Grundig $ky SD box. The artefacts were just different! 3) BBC HD & LUXE picture excellent. 4) Really like the blue display! Not universally liked in this forum, but just what I need! ![]() 5) Handy having the red button stuff on BBC 1. Have only seen it on Freeview before! On the knit picking side 1) Poor build quality / design. The top cover does not sit flush with the plastic front piece, there is a sort of ripple along the front edge of the cover. The red warning sticker was not stuck on straight. 2) Switching between Freesat and non-Freesat mode is a pain. 3) No sealing sticker on the back. Hope this does not give a problem if I need to make a warranty claim in the future! Handy if I want to put another hard drive inside though.
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1) Poor build quality / design. The top cover does not sit flush with the plastic front piece, there is a sort of ripple along the front edge of the cover. The red warning sticker was not stuck on straight.
2) Switching between Freesat and non-Freesat mode is a pain. 3) No sealing sticker on the back. Hope this does not give a problem if I need to make a warranty claim in the future! Handy if I want to put another hard drive inside though. ![]() |
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The only thing we miss from the Topfield is the skip buttons with different skip times for each button (and one skip back button), but the Humax is so good, we can live with that.
I'm sure I read somewhere there was a user definable jump forward and back? |
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Is there not an option to do this?
I'm sure I read somewhere there was a user definable jump forward and back? )
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I have had my Humax since xmas and love it. Both HD SD are perfect via my Tosh with HDMI.I output sound via Spdif to my YSP ( i hate wires all over the place and I am hearing impaired so cannot detect certain frequencies.But I know all the audio buffs will cringe at the thought of a sound projector) and the quality is very good. I have a very few glitchs mainly with remote and once when the led stayed on red for a few days evn when switched on ( corrected itself) So to sum up I can recommend the Humax. I am wondering what to add next any ideas and no not a 7.1 system I really like my Yammy
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The stickers on the bottom.
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The sticker on the 'bottom' on mine is the serial number and product type. There is no security sticker that I can obsere. Hence my concern about the warranty.
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Looks like you ain't got one then. It's normally stuck on the side and the bottom
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Yes, you can (as explained in the top post of this page
)One word on build quality, mine is fine. I also love the way the front panel display shows what your watching on playback of a recording! I have to agree on the EPG front, features wise it's miles better than sky. I'm also puzzled why sky haven't implemented watching a third channel when two are recording? |
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I'm also puzzled why sky haven't implemented watching a third channel when two are recording? I think the best way of doing it is allowing it but not advertising the fact a 3rd channel can be watched just like Humax have done. |
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True, I suppose the technical support lines at sky would be inundated with simpletons.
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I also love the way the front panel display shows what your watching on playback of a recording!
It wonderful that Humax have taken their duties under the disabilities act so seriously and catered for Alzheimer's sufferers who cannot remember which programme the are watching for the whole of its duration. (And can't remember that if you press 'info' it will tell you all aboput it.) |
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What red sticker isn't on straight....I don't have one? Don't have a security one either.
Also, I'm using scart for better pic quality but someone here said to switch the humax to original but when I try original, 720, etc etc on the Humax, I can't see any difference on the SD picture quality at all....can anyone else see any difference? |
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What red sticker isn't on straight....I don't have one? Don't have a security one either.
Also, I'm using scart for better pic quality but someone here said to switch the humax to original but when I try original, 720, etc etc on the Humax, I can't see any difference on the SD picture quality at all....can anyone else see any difference? The scaler only works on hdmi. |
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Doh....I'm not that daft Graham! Of course I'm doing this on HDMI.....can't see any difference on any settings, they all look same to me
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