Recent content by Owen Smith

I tun two HDR Fox T2s. I record the same things on both boxes. One of them has AR enabled and the other uses padding.

I don't have any near Cambridge and have no problems so far. Receiving Sandy Heath, plus Maddingley for the local mux.

Yes but a filter from 700MHz up will attenuate at 800MHz more strongly than the old one. These filters don't have cliff edge vertical roll offs, even if we'd like them to.

It's an Android based device, unrelated to the HDR Fox T2 firmware. Lots of new firmware and more of it gives plenty of opportunity for more bugs to be written. The act of writing code is the act of writing bugs, they're inevitable.

There's no other way, we don't get to re-compile the Humax firmware on the box.

I don't believe there is any information to suggest one is more reliable than the other. There aren't many vertical RF connectors HDR Fox T2s around, it was a late variant. I have one and it's a pain, if you use custom firmware to reboot it in software it can't receive any channels after the...

At that price you can't really go wrong. And you only need the main board, the rest of the replacement becomes spares or your old one does. I suggest buying the same variant though ie if you have horizontal RF connectors get one the same and ditto if you have vertical RF connectors. The power...

Time for a second hand HDR Fox T2 off ebay I would suggest. You can swap your hard disc into it provided you decrypt all the recordings first, or transplant the encryption key (it can be set in the web UI). Custom firmware install from USB stick, fix-flash-packages, correct all your settings and...

I had a Humax DTR-1000T YouView box indeed I was one of the triallists, and that did not create folders for series recordings it just produced a great long list of all your recordings. I have been told, clearly incorrectly, that all YouView boxes work that way to this day. I've certainly seen...

Each to his own, personally I hate the Youview UI with a passion. No folders for series recordings is utter madness, which seems to have infected a lot of subsequent products. The HDR Fox T2 is far from perfect, but it comes the closest for me especially with the custom firmware.

You know Freeview is waning in popularity when the soft porn services start leaving.

Some switched mode power supplies produce very high pitched whining noises that annoy me even when they are working as expected. No-one else I know can hear them, yet all my hearing above 11kHz is gone. It's odd.

The fan is not on all the time. With default Humax firmware the fan only comes on when the box gets very hot. You can use the "fan" custom firmware package to run the fan all the time at a configured speed, but even that does not run the fan in standby. If this happens in standby, it is neither...

Sometimes you get lucky and have a combination that works, sometimes you don't. I have CEC disabled on my TV, AV amp and other devices to avoid any faffing about. And it's eARC, not eARK.

All manufacturers have a long history of ARC, eARC and CEC connectivity issues. The basic problem is CEC is poorly specified resulting in every manufacture implementing it differently. ARC requires CEC hence has the same issues. That said, the HDR Fox T2 playing audio out of HDMI is about as...