Recent content by Lefteris

Is there somewhere to sell working Humax equipment. I gather it is quite specialist and has its fans. I need to investigate exactly what we have which includes previous models I guess he kept for spare parts. Sadly my husband 'Lefteris' died before last Christmas. I can play the thousands of...

Tony - I take your point - I usually leave the tuner on ch 100 Freeview, since I was once advised to use a channel with the least amount of changes throughout the day, so as not to upset recording of other channels. First time anyone's highlighted this possible reason, so I will investigate...

Both are the SD channels, so they are one each on the two PSB Channels/MUXes - I set the padding in Settings directly on the box, and I have always had Multimode set, though I infrequently use the facility to enable AR. With regard to Tony's question, I seldom use the Humax to watch TV live, so...

Thanks BH for your comprehensive reply, and I have to say, I know all that - the last thing I will try is a complete factory reset to see if the annecdotal evidence is correct. I have been using my Humax recorders for some years with the Custom Software which has always proved to be excellent -...

Because certainly in the past and to some extent on the lesser channels today, the signals required for AR were/are not always accurate and sometimes not there at all. Padding has the drawback that if programme times get changed too much, you'll miss the prog, but on the whole it is more reliable

Well BH, you could be right, as it's true that the 'apparent' problems can be worked around by not setting recordings that I now know will not work properly - however, the results are real, and my Dad always taught me to try and fix problems ! Out of interest, since these HDR-FOX T2's are...

Last night I recorded two programmes - 1 on Ch4 8:30pm till 10:20pm and 1 on BBC2 10:00pm till 10:45pm - they both recorded fine, the 2nd one starting correctly at 9:58pm as per the manual padding. So it appears it's only when one programme finishes and the 2nd one starts at the identical time...

One reason I thought the second box was OK is that Thursday I recorded two programmes from the same MUX with finish and start times the same (ie 10pm) and they were both OK !

Yes, further update - I was thinking my other HDR-2 was OK, but yesterday I recorded 2 programmes from different MUXes one finished at 9pm the other started at 9pm (this box is still on Manual Padding) and the second prog did not start until the first one's finish padding had ended. Trying to...

Yes and what is more curious, it only started happening sometime in the last 2 or 3 months - not sure exactly when because I was on holiday. I know we had a brief power cut while we were away, and the other HDR2-T froze, and our central heating controller did a wobbly, but this HDR re-booted...

I can confirm that I was only recording two programmes in every instance - the HDR2-T can only record two programmes at once, and I always check the filename as I copy them from the HDR2-T using an FTP utility. As you rightly say, the filename shows the exact start and stop time of the...

I already did it with padding - it's what started this current part of the thread. Every time, the second programme would not start until the first one's padding time had ended, thus truncating the start of the second programme by up to 5 mins. BTW I agree about ITV - hardly anything worth...

Anyway, back to the tests - I have done two more - one with three programmes of half an hour each running one after the after on different channels but using AR. All three started recording on time but ITN News - the last of the three - finished a few seconds early (no reason apparent but maybe...

You could be right prpr - fortunately I only ever worked in small companies where the beans counted me !

Yes I've realised I should stick to the main channels to do these kind of tests - it's just so frustrating when systems don't do what you feel they should. Why does everybody cut corners and make do with second best these days ? Sorry, time for a beer !