I've had two HDR Fox T2s, a third at my parents and a fourth at my aunts in heavy use since the early 2010s. Two of them needed bad blocks on the hard disc fixing after many years of use, but that can happen on any device. And at least with the custom firmware on the HDR Fox T2 we have the tools to do it, unlike most Freeview recorders. Other than that they've been very reliable.
What happens if you disconnect from the internet? In theory shouldn't "live" then attempt to use the aerial. Do pause etc. work then?
" You can't watch live TV on freeview, only record it."
That is unacceptable if it is the only way, the least they could have done is have a disable internet access button on the remote.
I'm not saying it's acceptable. What I'm trying to work out whether it is possible to watch live through the aerial or not. Based on my not very good understanding of Freely I thought the box may revert to aerial if the internet is not available.
I was not disagreeing with what you said and I expect you are correct. I seem to remember reading somewhere where it said if you did not need freely or have internet access you could just leave it unconnected and just use it like a Freeview PVR, I cannot find where that was said now but that now reads like "we told you so" if anyone complains about it not being viewable live unless you do. It just all seems to be deceptive tactics by Humax to make this product appear to be something that it is not and I find that un acceptable
Are you saying that Freely are responsible for Humax making a product that does not allow OTA live viewing unless it is disconnected from the internet? Freely TV's do not need to be disconnected for Freeview channels to be watched live.
Same thing happened with the awful Humax Youview boxes, I was one of the trialists for the first one that was in an HDR Fox T2 style case. Humax were stuck using the dreadful user interface specified by Youview whether they liked it or not.
If so then any Freeview/Freely hybrid was destined to be a failure, it is no wonder Manhattan did not bother and instead released a stand alone Freely product. Maybe even Humax know it is a dud as at the bottom of their Aura EZ page there is ....................................
Probably not. I suppose they have to implement certain features and restrict others to be certified as Freely. They are responsible for not making it perfectly clear what users can and can't do, and for the poor manual that Richer Sounds has on the website.
Ah, thanks. I meant YouView not Freetime.
Humax Direct have always offered refurbs (when available).
Always the case, and due to commercial pressures. Management want it done, engineers are never happy.
That's almost as bad as trying to navigate the old Aura's recordings from VLC to play things that have recorded but are not playable (ITV4!). As an example, not from ITV4 - try making sense of which episode "New__Mock_The_Week_TLC_012_5796" is and when it was recorded. You can't (you can, it was either last Sunday or the one before
) - 5796 appears to be a number indicating the entry in the schedule list. No date/time.