Recent content by chas

Thanks Black Hole, I’ve previously installed the CF, both links will be very useful though

Hi again guys, I just wanted to firstly say a big thanks for your advice, it has been very much appreciated and I also wanted to let you know how things have worked out, since you took the time to help out a "newbie" with minor tech abilities. The replacement HDD has arrived for my old Fox T2...

Got it from Sainsbugs on special offer after some Euro football competition and used some vouchers we had a few years ago, I know why it was on offer now. If it wasn’t for the cost of replacing the windows, the TV would have gone through them by now

No desire to copy from one to the other, with a 4 tuner box in the lounge, I can’t see a need. The “benefits” of the Fox in the kitchen diner would be transforming a very slow TV in the kitchen diner to one that doesn’t make me feel that I’ve lost part of my life waiting for a response (if you...

Yes thanks Trev, am on with that & expecting a new hard drive being delivered today/tomorrow and hopefully will have “old faithful” up and running again. The prospect of having the Fox with the kitchen diner TV (which is a Sony with the slowest processor I have ever seen in a TV) that would...

That’s interesting, it’s made me look back over the last 2 weeks of ownership of the 5000T and I think the last programmes we watched before switching off and going to bed and having the problem the next evening, were either on Netflix or recording and not live TV, I wonder if the inability to...

That’s part of my purchasing dilemma, I like the fact that the 5000T has 3 tuners, easy EPG search for programmes to record (the Manhattan & Panasonic can’t fulfil both of these) but a bit frustrated by the speed of reaction of the UI and I also think I’ve been spoiled by 8 years of almost...

Thank you Martin, honest, straightforward and experienced advice, just what I was looking for. I’ll do some more research with your thoughts in mind, in the meantime I’ll whizz the 5000T back to Curry’s, if I can get anyone to answer the phone that is !

Thanks guys, very much appreciated. I was kind of at that stage last night but I suppose I just needed someone with more technical expertise than me to confirm it. One further question, is the 5000T now the best Humax model available as new, in your opinions, or should I look for a better more...

The LED is dull red as in standby not recording. Once I unplug and plug in again, the box boots up, shows the Humax logo on screen, LED shows blue then goes back to standby and dull red, TV screen blank, then I can use the remote successfully to boot up and LED goes to blue and all is well after...

Thank you “Black Hole”, very gentle, admittedly I hadn’t found this so will give it a read, I guess my title wasn’t explicit enough so have edited it to help direct any advice that anyone may be able to offer. I’m ok with replacing the Fox HDD (have already tried CF), it’s the 5000T that is...

Hi all, I’m a new member so please be gentle ! Although not as technically capable as most on here, I’ve owned a Fox T2 for 8 years and until recently it has been superb, now I have a HDD problem with the Fox that after reading many posts on this forum and talking to Humax customer care, have...