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Humax Foxsat Freesat+ HDR & 9300t - Can they live together! |
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Humax Foxsat Freesat+ HDR & 9300t - Can they live together!
Hi,
After a great deal of searching I finally have a Humax Foxsat Freesat+ HDR and am delighted with it! Thankfully my TopUp.TV Thomson box has finally died and as the Foxsat is so good I'm thinking of replacing it with a Humax 9300t. Always like to have as many options as possible. The only thing thats holding me back is the thought that as both boxes would be from Humax the IR codes from the remotes would be the same and thus I'd be controlling 'both' devices unintentionally. Does anyone have such a setup, does this prove to be a problem? Thanks in advance Simon |
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Hi,
After a great deal of searching I finally have a Humax Foxsat Freesat+ HDR and am delighted with it! Thankfully my TopUp.TV Thomson box has finally died and as the Foxsat is so good I'm thinking of replacing it with a Humax 9300t. Always like to have as many options as possible. The only thing thats holding me back is the thought that as both boxes would be from Humax the IR codes from the remotes would be the same and thus I'd be controlling 'both' devices unintentionally. Does anyone have such a setup, does this prove to be a problem? Thanks in advance Simon |
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The Humax satellite and freeview boxes remotes don't conflict
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Same here the 9300t goes on top of the Humax Freesat PVR and no problems with the remote controlling them seperatately. they 'match' each other in looks as well.
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Thanks everyone, that puts my mind at rest.
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Same here the 9300t goes on top of the Humax Freesat PVR .
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I have the Humax HDR and Humax 9200 living together without any problems. I can use the HDR remote on the 9200 though
The only annoying thing I dont like about setup is I have to go into av menu to switch to the HDR as it wont automatically switch to it when I switch it on unlike the 9200 |
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The only annoying thing I dont like about setup is I have to go into av menu to switch to the HDR as it wont automatically switch to it when I switch it on unlike the 9200
I have a Sony Bravia TV. It switches on SCART, but not HDMI. I have my HDR connected to it by both SCART and HDMI. That works well enough for SD channels if I'm lazy and for other members of the family. Normally, I will use the AV menu to switch to HDMI, though. There's plenty of time while the HDR boots! This configuration is NOT recommended for people who might never bother switching to HDMI. They are likely to complain that there's no point in having HD. If they are observant, they may even complain that it's worse than SD. And, watched through SCART, they would be right as it will use composite video with HD rather than RGB for copy protection reasons. |
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Slightly off topic, but like you I have the HDR connected to a Bravia TV and have noticed that the picture quality is slightly better over SCART than HDMI. I have checked that the HDR is outputting 576i, so the TV rather than the HDR is upscaling in both cases. Have you noticed the same difference with your setup?
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Slightly off topic, but like you I have the HDR connected to a Bravia TV and have noticed that the picture quality is slightly better over SCART than HDMI. I have checked that the HDR is outputting 576i, so the TV rather than the HDR is upscaling in both cases. Have you noticed the same difference with your setup?
A lot depends on what you are used to. After a while you get used to something and treat that as "right". Unless there are some very obvious defects, you may perceive as worse something that is actually slightly better if measured in purely objective terms. |
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Slightly off topic, but like you I have the HDR connected to a Bravia TV and have noticed that the picture quality is slightly better over SCART than HDMI. I have checked that the HDR is outputting 576i, so the TV rather than the HDR is upscaling in both cases. Have you noticed the same difference with your setup?
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Thanks for the replies. I find the scart picture slightly sharper, but the difference is barely noticeable.
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