Well we got a warranty replacement a few weeks ago.
Interestingly all the stuff it took several days to copy off the hummy to a USB drive went back onto the new one overnight. Strangely asymmetric.
Bit dubious about the new box too unfortunately. Nothing like the previous one's disk...
When I do a manual tune (needed because we pick up triple copies from 3 transmitters on auto) the only way it finds any HD is if I change some other setting in the manual tune screen from DVB-T to DVB-T2. Took me a while to figure this out and I remember thinking it was distinctly non-obvious...
In the interests of not losing a ton of stuff (OK I'd probably never have got round to watching most of it:)), last night I started copying my ailing hummy's 1TB disc (about 600GByte used, all SD content) to a freshly FAT32 formatted 1TB USB drive (Hitachi "Simple Drive") plugged in the front...
After the TV retune up here, for some reason the HD channels weren't available immediately and I didn't miss them so never bothered retuning again to pick them up (improvement in image quality is pretty negligible IMHO, and not worth the huge increase in file size); so I only have SD stuff...
Thanks; sounds like I'd better get onto hummy support (bank holiday today though).
If they do send a new box, am I going to be able to play any programmes FTP-ed off the old one and restored to the new one ?
Would love to know what the outcome of this was as we have had a couple of episodes of similar behaviour.
The first time, a few months after we'd got the box, it started exhibiting the noisy clicking and flaky recordings which seemed to be due to the box crashing (or perhaps "locking up" would...
Well we got a warranty replacement a few weeks ago.
Interestingly all the stuff it took several days to copy off the hummy to a USB drive went back onto the new one overnight. Strangely asymmetric.
Bit dubious about the new box too unfortunately. Nothing like the previous one's disk...
When I do a manual tune (needed because we pick up triple copies from 3 transmitters on auto) the only way it finds any HD is if I change some other setting in the manual tune screen from DVB-T to DVB-T2. Took me a while to figure this out and I remember thinking it was distinctly non-obvious...
In the interests of not losing a ton of stuff (OK I'd probably never have got round to watching most of it:)), last night I started copying my ailing hummy's 1TB disc (about 600GByte used, all SD content) to a freshly FAT32 formatted 1TB USB drive (Hitachi "Simple Drive") plugged in the front...
After the TV retune up here, for some reason the HD channels weren't available immediately and I didn't miss them so never bothered retuning again to pick them up (improvement in image quality is pretty negligible IMHO, and not worth the huge increase in file size); so I only have SD stuff...
Thanks; sounds like I'd better get onto hummy support (bank holiday today though).
If they do send a new box, am I going to be able to play any programmes FTP-ed off the old one and restored to the new one ?
Would love to know what the outcome of this was as we have had a couple of episodes of similar behaviour.
The first time, a few months after we'd got the box, it started exhibiting the noisy clicking and flaky recordings which seemed to be due to the box crashing (or perhaps "locking up" would...
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