Slow Humax PVR 9200

On Sunday, May 30th, 2010 at 20:35:46h +0100, Charles declared:

they only have 525/60 at home

Really? More like 720p / 1080i.

From

http://www.japaninc.COM/mgz_august_2008_hdtv

QUOTE

“The public and private sector cooperation has been such that
ordinary Japanese people don’t necessarily think of HDTV as
anything special,� says NHK engineer Kenji Terada, noting that
93% of Japanese households already receive HDTV broadcast signals ...

UNQUOTE

amd can't check problems with 625/50 broadcasts very easily.

Yes, they must consider that other countries are still stuck in the
dark ages of SD television.

BTW what has this Japanese problem go to do with Humax, who are a
corporation based in the Republic of Korea?

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

Well, most of these are on the Hummy forums, but off the top of my head
these are ones I have suffered from at some time, most common or
irritating ones first:

1) Missing the start of virtually every programme and occasionally the
end, despite claiming to have an "Accurate Record" feature.

I don't have "Accurate Record" set, and (not for the first time)
have returned home from a week away, only to find that one
programme did not terminate, it simply kept recording until the
disk was filled, thus missing all subsequent ones.

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

On Sat, 29 May 2010 18:06:13 +0100, "Steve Thackery"
wrote:


"Scott" wrote in message
.. .

Trustworthy to my mind includes dealing with the problem within an
appropriate timescale and keeping customers up to date. Humax have
done neither.

OK, so it's just about how we define "trustworthy", then. Regardless of
that, I agree with you that they should have given out more information and
progress reports.

It's not possible for us to say whether it took "too long" to fix. After
all, we've no idea how difficult the problem was.

Nothing on the DTG website for engineering downloads. Nothing on the
Humax website. The 'Latest News' even includes an item from 30 June
2009. How difficult is it at least to pretend to have some interest
in customers? They are clearly more interested in developing new
product in the hope of extracting more money from customers.

Scott wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2010 20:02:01 +0100, remove y
wrote:

In message , Paul Ratcliffe
writes
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:54:03 +0100, Paul S wrote:

Mainly because of the crap way they have dealt with the 9200 I am
unlikely to buy any further Humax products

Seriously you guys!

Humax produced this PVR many years ago and while they are of course
going to
support current products first they are at least continuing to work
on the
code for the 9200.

They continue to sell it as Manager's specials.

Frankly they should have been taken to court for marketing a
seriously
deficient product - pity some one did not have the time to prepare
the
case and have the money to back it up - they are taking us for mugs.

Red Tops hope you are on the case

I see that Pace / Philips have now brought out a Freeview HD PVR
http://www.pace.com/corporate/mediah...m.asp?id=11011

Any thoughts whether Pace are likely to be more trustworthy in
providing support in years to come?

I did a google today for info on the pace/philips pvr. There already
appears to be a growing list of faults appearing on the avforums for it.
I've decided to stick with my hummy for a bit longer. Better the devil
you know. Once there are more HD pvrs I might look again.

Graham

In message ,
Graham writes
Scott wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2010 20:02:01 +0100, remove y
wrote:

In message , Paul Ratcliffe
writes
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:54:03 +0100, Paul S wrote:

Mainly because of the crap way they have dealt with the 9200 I am
unlikely to buy any further Humax products

Seriously you guys!

Humax produced this PVR many years ago and while they are of course
going to
support current products first they are at least continuing to work
on the
code for the 9200.

They continue to sell it as Manager's specials.

Frankly they should have been taken to court for marketing a
seriously
deficient product - pity some one did not have the time to prepare
the
case and have the money to back it up - they are taking us for mugs.

Red Tops hope you are on the case

I see that Pace / Philips have now brought out a Freeview HD PVR
http://www.pace.com/corporate/mediah...m.asp?id=11011

Any thoughts whether Pace are likely to be more trustworthy in
providing support in years to come?

I did a google today for info on the pace/philips pvr. There already
appears to be a growing list of faults appearing on the avforums for it.
I've decided to stick with my hummy for a bit longer. Better the devil
you know. Once there are more HD pvrs I might look again.

Graham
In case anyone wants it, the version 23 beta is available here,

http://downloads.hummy.org.uk/index....loads&view=fol
der&Itemid=4
--
Ian

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:28:02 +0100, Ian
wrote:

In message ,
Graham writes
Scott wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2010 20:02:01 +0100, remove y
wrote:

In message , Paul Ratcliffe
writes
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:54:03 +0100, Paul S wrote:

Mainly because of the crap way they have dealt with the 9200 I am
unlikely to buy any further Humax products

Seriously you guys!

Humax produced this PVR many years ago and while they are of course
going to
support current products first they are at least continuing to work
on the
code for the 9200.

They continue to sell it as Manager's specials.

Frankly they should have been taken to court for marketing a
seriously
deficient product - pity some one did not have the time to prepare
the
case and have the money to back it up - they are taking us for mugs.

Red Tops hope you are on the case

I see that Pace / Philips have now brought out a Freeview HD PVR
http://www.pace.com/corporate/mediah...m.asp?id=11011

Any thoughts whether Pace are likely to be more trustworthy in
providing support in years to come?

I did a google today for info on the pace/philips pvr. There already
appears to be a growing list of faults appearing on the avforums for it.
I've decided to stick with my hummy for a bit longer. Better the devil
you know. Once there are more HD pvrs I might look again.

Graham
In case anyone wants it, the version 23 beta is available here,

http://downloads.hummy.org.uk/index....loads&view=fol
der&Itemid=4

If you look at another thread you will see that the final version is
due for release on Wednesday ... allegedly.

"Scott" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:28:02 +0100, Ian
wrote:

In message ,
Graham writes
Scott wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2010 20:02:01 +0100, remove y
wrote:

In message , Paul Ratcliffe
writes
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:54:03 +0100, Paul S wrote:

Mainly because of the crap way they have dealt with the 9200 I am
unlikely to buy any further Humax products

Seriously you guys!

Humax produced this PVR many years ago and while they are of course
going to
support current products first they are at least continuing to work
on the
code for the 9200.

They continue to sell it as Manager's specials.

Frankly they should have been taken to court for marketing a
seriously
deficient product - pity some one did not have the time to prepare
the
case and have the money to back it up - they are taking us for mugs.

Red Tops hope you are on the case

I see that Pace / Philips have now brought out a Freeview HD PVR
http://www.pace.com/corporate/mediah...m.asp?id=11011

Any thoughts whether Pace are likely to be more trustworthy in
providing support in years to come?

I did a google today for info on the pace/philips pvr. There already
appears to be a growing list of faults appearing on the avforums for it.
I've decided to stick with my hummy for a bit longer. Better the devil
you know. Once there are more HD pvrs I might look again.

Graham
In case anyone wants it, the version 23 beta is available here,

http://downloads.hummy.org.uk/index....loads&view=fol
der&Itemid=4

If you look at another thread you will see that the final version is
due for release on Wednesday ... allegedly.

See http://www.dtg.org.uk/industry/download_schedule.php if you need
convincing!

V

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:28:02 +0100, Ian wrote:

In case anyone wants it, the version 23 beta is available here,

http://downloads.hummy.org.uk/index....loads&view=fol
der&Itemid=4

Only two weeks late then.

I think the 21 beta from April was better in terms of remote response
time.
That was as good as I've ever seen it whereas the current one is back
to how it was before last September i.e. quite variable up to about a
second, when pressing pause before the video stops.

We have two Humax boxes, because my wife knew someone who had one and showed her haw to work it. They are both the most unutterably unfit rubbish. Even 5 Watts on any frequency from my Amateur Radio transmitter destroys the received picture. The permitted 400 W ? One's mind boggles. All five TV receivers are immune, as they should be by law. With the TV antenna passing through the Humax junk, even if it's switched off, the TV connected is unusable. All customary filters, ferrite applications and so on are to no avail.

Attempts to communicate with the makers are useless, it's like trying to deal with Micro$oft. A different PVR - with far better facilities - generates no EMC problems.

In article ,
() wrote:

Attempts to communicate with the makers are useless, it's like
trying to deal with Micro$oft. A different PVR - with far better
facilities - generates no EMC problems.

back to the place you bought them, and "not fit for purpose"

I had this with a Combine Harvester once...

5 watts from the radio in the cab would knock the GPS out.

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