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Wallace
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The only difference is the extra 500GB.
FWIW, I am not too keen on the Seagate HDD's. especially the 1TB fitted in the Hummy. I have also had bad experiences with them failing in my PC. I much prefer WD. Personal preference, I know, but just thought I would add my tuppence worth.
I recently purchased a brand new 1TB HDR T2 for JL. It is only 2 weeks old and has 88 reallocated sectors on it. Admittedly its not increased in a week, but still a poor show. I have also noticed that others with the 1TB model have issues which I believe can be attributed with the HDD.
My advice is get a graded or new 500GB from Humax. You can fit a new HDD yourself easy as pie, and remove the orange filter at the same time! Doing all this would invalidate your warranty though.
FWIW, I am not too keen on the Seagate HDD's. especially the 1TB fitted in the Hummy. I have also had bad experiences with them failing in my PC. I much prefer WD. Personal preference, I know, but just thought I would add my tuppence worth.
I recently purchased a brand new 1TB HDR T2 for JL. It is only 2 weeks old and has 88 reallocated sectors on it. Admittedly its not increased in a week, but still a poor show. I have also noticed that others with the 1TB model have issues which I believe can be attributed with the HDD.
My advice is get a graded or new 500GB from Humax. You can fit a new HDD yourself easy as pie, and remove the orange filter at the same time! Doing all this would invalidate your warranty though.
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AlastairK
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Cheers, if I'm about as much as I was in my Toppy days you'll be sick of the sight of me
Black Hole
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That depends whether you use South Park language!
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AlastairK
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I'm playing catch up here but is this confirmed? It is conceivable that some of the newer boxes have different components (most likely the tuners) that would require updated firmware but the only case I remember reading was for a user that tried to load a CFW based on 1.02.32 onto a box which was previously running 1.03.06 without downgrading to official 1.02.32 first. I'm sure I've seen at least one report of a successful downgrade too.
Wallace
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As far as I am concerned yes. It's not bricked my box but I do get very random 'no signal or this program is scrambled' message. Others have also reported issues that appear to be tuner related after a downgrade to 1.02.32. I personally can't be more specific and I am waiting for 1.03.06 or greater before I use the box any more as I don't want to risk doing something I might regret.
Black Hole
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That was not my reading of it. Somebody tried installing .32 on a .06 machine and bricked it, then got a replacement and did the same thing.
Ezra Pound
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AlastairK
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Not a happy bunny, got my graded HDR Fox-T2 500Gb t'was brilliant, the EPG is much better than an old Hummy I have, easy set up, good looking unit etc. Then I watched a recorded programme, lots of pixelating and jumping. Not to be discouraged I tried a few other recordings but alas the same problem.
Read up on here and came to the conclusion that it was probably a Hard Drive issue so contacted Humax Direct in order to return it and get a refund, after the 3rd e-mail I got a response offering either a pre-paid returns label which could be e-mailed to me or a courier collection, I replied that the e-mailed pre-paid returns label suited me fine, after 5 further e-mails I'm still awaiting my returns label or, for that matter, any contact whatsoever.
Read up on here and came to the conclusion that it was probably a Hard Drive issue so contacted Humax Direct in order to return it and get a refund, after the 3rd e-mail I got a response offering either a pre-paid returns label which could be e-mailed to me or a courier collection, I replied that the e-mailed pre-paid returns label suited me fine, after 5 further e-mails I'm still awaiting my returns label or, for that matter, any contact whatsoever.