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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
mr deo wrote:

My t-101's are still dead.. They told me in like Feb that they are
waiting
for a firmware broadcast slot to open so they can update
everyone.........

How do they expect that to work, if you can't tune in to any service
with it ?

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Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

http://www.paras.org.uk/

The problem with these boxes is just that it's unable to use the data
provided to put the video and audio streams to the correct station
assigments (in fact, some recent changes has seen e4+1 picking up a
different audio feed)..
All you would need to do is tune to a station that's broadcast from the
proper mux and you should get the update.

In message , Brian Gaff
wrote
A lot of the off air stuff needs to be paid for and they are at the mercy of
the third party channel operators of course, whereas if they get the boxes
back they can sort them in minutes I imagine. Its a pity nobody puts a way
to connect these boxes to a computer so you could update the software from
the companys web sites.

Some boxes allow this - but then the firmware on the company's web site
may not be the best one to install :(
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Alan
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"Doctor D" wrote in message
o.uk...

Humax sell a TV?..

Yes, but don't buy one.

Dreadful.

Bill

In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

"Doctor D" wrote in message
o.uk...

Humax sell a TV?..

Yes, but don't buy one.

Dreadful.

Interesting. I bought mine because of the 'good' name and that it was
available in the size I wanted - 24". It wasn't cheap.
It's normally used as a monitor being fed from the Toppy next door so I
can wander from living room to kitchen while cooking etc without the sound
delays you get from separate FreeView tuners. But when I use it as an
ordinary FreeView set it's fine too. Picture is as good as any LCD I've
seen. Don't use the internal speakers. Only real niggle is it doesn't have
a fixed audio line out on phonos - you have to use the headphone socket.
But the quality from that is ok.

Bill

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*Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

We have dealt with hundreds of Humax TVs. (They have now stopped
making them)
The trouble was that there was little continuity. The good models were
superb with excellent sound and a picture with fewer digital artefacts
and fuzz than almost any other. Some of the 26" and 32" models were
incredibly solid and well put together. My own set is a 32" single
tuner with integrated PVR. The 40" had better sound than any other TV
I have ever heard, and a decent picture and built-in hard drive but
awful, unreliable and often unusable software.. The older bad models
had less than good picturers, were quirky and generally odd but
excellently built!!
The more recent 19" and 22" sets with the seperate speaker under the
screen generally gave better results than most other makes and some
had integrated DAB radio or a plug-in mini hard drive which also
worked well. Like most smaller screen sets, the vertical viewing angle
was not good but the same basic model without the larger speaker had
painfully awful sound with no bass whatsoever.

We have found Humax service to be very good and guarantee service to
be very eficient. USUALLY!

But its all just personal opinion.......!

Interestingly, JVC now make two models (32" and 26") which have
integrated PVR hard drives and almost exactly the same menus and
operating system as the Humax Freeview PVRs and they seem to work very
well, especially for older people who appreciate the all-in-one
arrangement with one handset.

"widgitt" wrote in message
...

Interestingly, JVC now make two models (32" and 26") which have
integrated PVR hard drives and almost exactly the same menus and
operating system as the Humax Freeview PVRs

The model number of my Humax TV is LGB-22DZT... I wonder what the 'LG' bit
stands for.. It's difficult to tell who makes what nowadays i.e. on the
rear display area of a JVC flat screen TV I have, the name 'Samsung' is
prominently stamped in a couple of places.