Recent content by ajm600

You are absolutely right. I spoke to humax, and there is a piece of software in the hb1000s not present in the hdr1000s which allows the recording etc to a usb hard drive. The tech advised me to buy an hb1000s and stick the hard drive into that. Think I'll do just that. Thought people would...

I forgot to thank everyone who tried to help from the beginning. A big thank you!!!

An update on my original post. A new HDD did not solve the problem. I called Humax, and after a few questions they came to the conclusion that the situation was non-recoverable, declared the HDR 1000s dead, and offered a refurb for £120. I then removed the disc drive and discovered that the...

After a couple of months of relatively smooth running, my (ebay purchased) 1000s came up with a message that I need to format the hard drive. One of the bits of advice that I had been given during an earlier forum session was that the time had come to change the hard drive. So got one on ebay...

I said "time will tell", and it has told. As I was afraid it would. The dreaded "time shift buffer" message is back, and even doing the recording>buffer trick which worked before does nothing. I shall probably have to resell the HDR 1000S on ebay and reinstall my old Sony freeview recorder. Are...

Thanks for your comment. I can only hope that you are right. Time will tell. In any case, I had an additional problem (didn't want to overload my original query) whereby my single LNB, split to my Freesat TV and the Humax was showing a bad signal to either one or the other depending on which...

Txs Tarmac. The pause was not working since last night. I did as you suggested and checked the settings. My recording buffer was ON. I changed it to OFF - no joy. So I changed it back to ON and, hey presto, the pause worked! Coincidence? Who knows? What on earth is going on!?

I have read all of the above, and hope that this thread is still alive! My problem with pause and rewind - which results in the "time shift buffer" message - is that it is intermittent. Sometimes all is OK and sometimes not. I have both reset to factory settings and formatted the disc - neither...