Recent content by Ben Shepherd

For what it's worth, I didn't have any water in the cable either. It just stopped working, apparently for no reason.

I finally got round to trying my Humax box on another aerial. It didn't work. So presumably that means my tuner is dead. If so, is there anything I can do about it, or does the box have to go in the bin?

The factory reset didn't help. Next week I'll try the box with a different aerial.

Thanks to both of you for your help. I'll try these suggestions and let you know how it goes.

Would be worth a try, unless that's going to delete my recordings.

But my TV tuning is not affected - whether I go through the box or connect the aerial cable directly to the TV, it still picks up Freeview just fine. So surely it can't be a problem with the cable? I probably won't replace the cable now anyway, as I plan to move house this year (hopefully). But...

Hmm, interesting - I hadn't thought about that. I unplugged it yesterday and opened up the box, naively hoping I could spot the problem. There wasn't any obvious water damage though, and the aerial cable seemed pretty dry. (Although it could probably do with replacing anyway - the copper is very...

Hi, I have a Humax PVR-9150T Freeview recorder box, which I bought in late 2009 and has been working perfectly ever since. But last week, it suddenly lost signal and wouldn't show any Freeview channels. There's nothing wrong with the aerial - the signal goes through to my digital TV, which is...