Recent content by Owen Smith

Another thing in favour of the HDR Fox T2 is we have diagnosed two of the common hardware faults, know what symptoms they cause, and how to fix them if you can use a soldering iron. On top of that using the custom firmware you can run fixdisk on the box itself, no need to remove the drive and...

I suggest a used HDR Fox T2. They may be old, but they are HD and have HDMI video output, and unlike all other Humax devices we have the custom firmware allowing auto decryption of recordings etc. Also being the first HD model from Humax they're probably closer in interface to the 9150T than...

No, recordings are always encrypted when made. But you can in the web UI configure to auto decrypt the entire hard disc which is what I have set up. So they are made encrypted and then decrypted in background while the HDR Fox T2 is doing other things. I believe this is on the Opt+ menu in the...

"It's a small change, what could possibly go wrong?" should strike fear in the heart of every software engineer.

That sounds like 3 tuners in use to me, assuming STV, C4 and 5+1 are all on different multiplexes. It would have been on C4 already waiting for the signals to do accurate recording.

My parents had long standing friends (now dead) with surname Sidebottom. Like the related name Longbottom this causes sniggering even in the UK, but a "bottom" is a field which is where the name comes from. Related to tits as birds, there are shags and boobies.

Unfortunately it has always been like this on this forum. It's part of the reason for my only intermittent use of it over the years.

When I worked for a Canadian company they were astonished that there is a town in the UK called Maidenhead.

Bear in mind how few of us are active on this site now. 10 years ago it was so busy I couldn't keep up.

Titbit not titibit, and it's been titbit in British English for a couple of centuries or more. Language changes, and as is often the case with language and spelling the American version is older and more original. Colonials don't like to change things, whereas the mother country moves on. Look...

Like I said, explicit foolproof step by step instructions are difficult and time consuming to write. And something will inevitably be different on a different PC.

Bluetit, coaltit, long tailed tit, all UK small birds. Presumably because tit meant small or tiny at the time, hence titbit (and it rhymes better than tidbit).

I'm going to steal that.

I get the feeling you spent a lot of time thinking it was an HDMI sync issue and working to resolve that, when unfortunately that was wasted effort as that wasn't the problem at all. Asking here would probably have revealed that sooner.

@jalba Your choice. There are definitely still options.