On 26/02/2021 21:23, Chris Green wrote:
Steve Walker wrote:
On 26/02/2021 17:04, Gordy wrote:
On 25/02/2021 20:10, GB wrote:
The Humax remote stopped working, and I was just about to throw it
away and buy another when I thought I would google the problem. Who
would have thought that you can reboot a remote control?

Maybe, you guys all knew that, but it surprised me.

I find Humax to make good kit which always seems to have one massive
design flaw which never gets fixed.

We have a Humax (FVP-4000T) that we no longer use. It could have been a
very good system, except that it had bugs and poor design choices:

It was slow - often resulting in us pressing buttons numerous times and
then shooting too far and selecting the wrong thing.

It was non-intuitive - when deleting a number of items, it would
sometimes move the focus to the item above after deletion and sometime
to the item below, making deleting rapidly a slow and careful progress
... and there was no way to turn off confirming each one in turn. Okay,
you could select a number, but it is far simpler when deleting 4 or 5 to
just keep hitting the individual delete.

The box locked up randomly, missing recording and requiring a power restart.

The associated H3 streaming box was 50/50 over whether it could connect
when turned on - often requiring both boxes to be rebooted ... not good
when the main box is mid-recording.

When scrolling through the list of recordings, you could not read the
description of the programme unless you selected it and then you had to
back up to continue down the list - other boxes simply display the
description of whatever programme on the list you are currently on.

It was an okay box, that with better software, particularly the user
interface, could have been great.

So what's so much better that allowed you to ditch the Humax?

I agree about many of its deficiencies but I've yet to see anything
that's a whole lot better.

We switched to open, Linux based satellite receivers, running OpenVix -
very handy as they can share a single disk, allowing them all to play
recordings that another box made and even to use each other's tuners if
their own are busy. There are still a few niggles and catch-up has
almost stopped working - but the TVs can do that bit themselves. I must
look for a replacement add-on for that.