Recent content by Owen Smith

Also known as the JFDI option, copyright my previous boss.

Your first post! Great to hear you fixed your HDR Fox T2.

Thanks. Available models keep changing all the time. And I'm using 3 HDMI ports at present on mine.

My parents' 24" bedroom TV has not been replaced. And I can't replace it, last few times I looked no-one sells a 24"TV with a 1920 x 1080 panel any more. I use a 32" TV myself because I can't fit anything bigger in, and I'd have similar issues in that 32" has gone from being a popular 1080p size...

Then that model should have been illegal to sell in the UK. Regulatory enforcement would have made Sony update the design, but Ofcom are as useless as a chocolate teapot.

DVB-T2 was available when I bought my parents' 24" 1920 x 1080p TV. I bought a brand new end of line HD Fox T2 to go with it.

I'm talking about the standard. It says fuses other than 3A or 13A should be black. I can't control how the standard is implemented. You people really like to create an argument out of nothing. It's no wonder newcomers are driven away from hummy.tv. Do you have nothing better to do?

That looks black to me, everything printed on it is black.

Tell me about it. I bought a 1920 x 1080 24" Sony TV for my parents' bedroom about 15 years ago. Full HD panel but those bastards at Sony only put a DVB-T tuner in it. Outrageous, and it should have been banned by Ofcom regulations. So I had to get an HD Fox T2 as an add on tuner for it, there...

Ah that makes sense technically. But given the average or even fairly well informed consumer has no clue about DVB-T or DVB-T2 maybe not the best marketing plan.

No I have no clue. It's just part of the name "HDR Fox T2" to me. I'm sorry to be so ill educated. But you could have stated in your posting what it actually means. Now I await enlightenment in equal parts torment and anticipation.

You can never pass up the opportunity to have a dig at someone. I hadn't read the entire thread from top to bottom before I posted my first reply. Give people a break!

Wow, 1A and 2A in 13A plug size do exist: https://www.morvantrading.co.uk/why-are-uk-plugs-fused/ And I'm pretty sure the official colour for any rating other than 3A and 13A is black, not grey.

Interestingly the original intent was clearly for 3A on light loads and 13A on heavy loads, since 3A fuses are red and 13A fuses brown for easy identification. All other ratings are black, which covers 5A, 7A and 10A for 13A plugs. 1A isn't a rating I have ever seen for 13A plugs, and for shaver...

The fuse is to protect the cable, not the HDR Fox T2. I find 3A and 13A very rare these days and the common sizes are 5A and 10A, so I must be buying different gear to you. The cable is probably 0.75mm2 flex and 5A is fine for that. It's 3A for 0.5mm2 flex if I remember correctly. EDIT: the...