Recent content by SilverRose

Really? See below! Thank you for the insult ("something" indeed). Since I had to register to post anything on this site, I thought I'd do it properly and add an avatar - you know, BASIC use of the internet! I came here because I want to keep using my HDR-FOX (which was recommended to me...

1: No, I have 0 friends (life circumstances). We will be enquiring of someone from the IT department of where my mother used to work. 2. Because my only knowledge of PVRs is the Humax, and I don't like what I'm hearing about the Aura (plus we have no need for and do not want a Smart product).

I had actually come back on here to say I will be finding someone who understands these things to look at the firmware for us (probably a former colleague who specialised in IT). I can follow instructions / guidelines, and am aware of risks, but have no wish to start dabbling in the...

Thank you. I'm sure the step-by-step seems easy to most of you, but at the mention of "install the custom firmware and access the HDR-FOX from a computer using Telnet" I become stressed, because that sort of computer-related stuff is completely beyond me and just makes me panic that it will...

Firmware just feels too complex to me - I find dealing with anything like this very stressful, as I really do not understand the technological stuff, and connecting the HDR-FOX to a computer is absolutely beyond me. So to me, just replacing the HDD seems far more straightforward, as it is a...

Sorry, I should have said that I already tried both restoring factory default, and reformating the disk.

Thank you - as said, I'm an absolute novice at this! It appears we are on 1.03.12 I'm at a loss on firmware - the custom ones seem to relate to if you connect the Humax to the internet (sorry if I've misunderstood that), which we don't, so no need for anything releating to iPlayer.

Thank you for the excellent info. However, not having any experience with this sort of thing, I would appreciate a little clarification: Our HDR-FOX has had a couple of glitches for a while - for a few years it has sometimes 'crashed' when asked to move a file or folder (freeze, reboot with...