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Regular readers of my fascinating missives will know that, annoyed by C4
HD leaving Freesat I vowed to add Freeview to my living room equipment. I bought a Humax FVP-5000T 1TB receiver and because I'm incapacitated Paul installed it for me. This was three days ago and so far I'm very impressed by the receiver. Very fast to respond, very user friendly, really good clear graphics. I haven't found any programming oddities. Of course we downloaded new software. I miss the Freesat box's front panel display though. The new box feeds the TV via HDMI 1. The Humax Freesat box and a secondhand FTA 13E box feed HDMI2 via an automatic switch. Annoyingly the two Humaxes share the same remote handset codes. However I intend to use the Freesat box only when I want to watch different BBC and ITV regions, and I won't routinely be using it for recording, so it is switched off on the rear panel. The 13E box is a curious beast. It is a Zgemma H.2S. It came to us from a customer who had been sold it by someone running the Sky scam. It is very small but appears to be good quality and well specified. The on-screen help is remarkably comprehensive. The menus are labyrinthine and allow literally hundreds of options, almost all of which I do not understand. However I found a very good video about it on YouTube. My main use for the box is Swiss Classic Radio, but I do like to have a browse though the TV channels now and then. We watched a Moroccan HD channel the other night, for quite a long time. I was astonished at the picture quality during a home-grown drama. It was significantly better than UK HD. There seemed to be more colour shades available. Fine differences in colour were visible. How can this be I wonder? Bill |
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On 05/03/2018 08:36, Bill Wright wrote:
I bought a Humax FVP-5000T 1TB receiver and because I'm incapacitated Paul installed it for me. This was three days ago and so far I'm very impressed by the receiver. Annoyingly the two Humaxes share the same remote handset codes. Some Humaxes have an option to change the codes they respond to. I don't know if either of yours fit that category (only one needs to). It would be worth checking in the user manuals, but don't expect the facility to be indexed so you might have to read through. Jim |
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On 05/03/2018 11:13, Martin wrote:
Some Humaxes have an option to change the codes they respond to. I don't know if either of yours fit that category (only one needs to). It would be worth checking in the user manuals, but don't expect the facility to be indexed so you might have to read through. See https://support.icetv.com.au/hc/en-u...PVRs-in-1-room Yes it worked. Thank you.Shocking that I used to sell Humax and I didn't know! Bill |
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[Snip] However I found a very good video about it on YouTube. My main use for the box is Swiss Classic Radio, Bill Did you know thre's also a Suisse Radio Classique? Same music, but with the announcements in French rather than German. -- from KT24 in Surrey, England |
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On 05/03/18 08:36, Bill Wright wrote:
.. We watched a Moroccan HD channel the other night, for quite a long time. I was astonished at the picture quality during a home-grown drama. It was significantly better than UK HD. There seemed to be more colour shades available. Fine differences in colour were visible. How can this be I wonder? That's because it is de rigueur for any drama on British TV to be made in a cellar at midnight, using a broken bulb for lighting. I'll bet the Moroccan station even made the basic mistake of making speech clear, too. -- Jeff |
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On 05/03/2018 08:36, Bill Wright wrote:
Regular readers of my fascinating missives will know that, annoyed by C4 HD leaving Freesat I vowed to add Freeview to my living room equipment. I bought a Humax FVP-5000T 1TB receiver and because I'm incapacitated Paul installed it for me. This was three days ago and so far I'm very impressed by the receiver. Very fast to respond, very user friendly, really good clear graphics. I haven't found any programming oddities. Of course we downloaded new software. I miss the Freesat box's front panel display though. The new box feeds the TV via HDMI 1. The Humax Freesat box and a secondhand FTA 13E box feed HDMI2 via an automatic switch. Annoyingly the two Humaxes share the same remote handset codes. However I intend to use the Freesat box only when I want to watch different BBC and ITV regions, and I won't routinely be using it for recording, so it is switched off on the rear panel. The 13E box is a curious beast. It is a Zgemma H.2S. It came to us from a customer who had been sold it by someone running the Sky scam. It is very small but appears to be good quality and well specified. The on-screen help is remarkably comprehensive. The menus are labyrinthine and allow literally hundreds of options, almost all of which I do not understand. However I found a very good video about it on YouTube. My main use for the box is Swiss Classic Radio, but I do like to have a browse though the TV channels now and then. We watched a Moroccan HD channel the other night, for quite a long time. I was astonished at the picture quality during a home-grown drama. It was significantly better than UK HD. There seemed to be more colour shades available. Fine differences in colour were visible. How can this be I wonder? Bill Compared to the Humax Fox T2, which I've had for several years, the FVP-5000 is nowhere near as good. The response to the remote is very slow and the user interface rubbish. I've yet to find a way to check my recording schedule with less than SIX key presses - Fox T2 just two, and just one when scheduling recordings from the guide just to make sure I've got them all. It's also got a very noisy hard drive. The 5000 is now relegated to hot spare if the Fox T2 fails. Phil M |
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On 05/03/2018 13:51, charles wrote:
Did you know thre's also a Suisse Radio Classique? Same music, but with the announcements in French rather than German. Yes. Bill |
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On 05/03/2018 19:48, Phil M wrote:
Compared to the Humax Fox T2, which I've had for several years, the FVP-5000 is nowhere near as good.Â* The response to the remote is very slow Mine is very fast and the user interface rubbish. I think it's the best interface I've ever encountered. It's also got a very noisy hard drive. Mine is so quiet I can't hear it in a silent room. Bill |
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On 05/03/2018 08:36, Bill Wright wrote:
I bought a Humax FVP-5000T 1TB receiver and because I'm incapacitated Paul installed it for me. This was three days ago and so far I'm very impressed by the receiver. Very fast to respond, very user friendly, really good clear graphics. I haven't found any programming oddities. Of course we downloaded new software. I miss the Freesat box's front panel display though. Thanks for your recommendation. We're thinking about getting a new video recorder to replace one that must be nearly 10 years old and won't do HD and has an annoying bug besides. But I'm bemused by the fact that the Humax models seem to come in two flavours: one which will do Freview but not Freesat, and the other Freesat but not Freeview. I have a TV that will receive both and we use both systems when necessary since, as you say, some channels are on and not the other. Also it's nice to have a bit of redundancy. Can there be some technical reason that Humax doesn't produce a single box with both Freesat and Freeview tuners, or is it simply laziness on their part? That also seems unlikely, for the same reasons that most companies nowadays produce consumer products that e.g. cope with 120v and 240v mains - it's just easier to have one model that suits the whole world. -- Clive Page |
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On 06/03/2018 10:55, Martin wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:10:25 +0000, Clive Page wrote: On 05/03/2018 08:36, Bill Wright wrote: I bought a Humax FVP-5000T 1TB receiver and because I'm incapacitated Paul installed it for me. This was three days ago and so far I'm very impressed by the receiver. Very fast to respond, very user friendly, really good clear graphics. I haven't found any programming oddities. Of course we downloaded new software. I miss the Freesat box's front panel display though. The thing I find missing on current Humax PVRs is some way of locating quickly something you have recorded once the 1TB starts to get full. Thanks for your recommendation. We're thinking about getting a new video recorder to replace one that must be nearly 10 years old and won't do HD and has an annoying bug besides. But I'm bemused by the fact that the Humax models seem to come in two flavours: one which will do Freview but not Freesat, and the other Freesat but not Freeview. I have a TV that will receive both and we use both systems when necessary since, as you say, some channels are on and not the other. Also it's nice to have a bit of redundancy. Can there be some technical reason that Humax doesn't produce a single box with both Freesat and Freeview tuners, or is it simply laziness on their part? That also seems unlikely, for the same reasons that most companies nowadays produce consumer products that e.g. cope with 120v and 240v mains - it's just easier to have one model that suits the whole world. Which programmes are on Freeview that are not on Freesat, and are worth watching? C4 HD, it would seem. :-) |
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