Are you still having that issue? I am not sure I have since the fix was released but if so it was only once or twice and certainly not for many many months.
Humax FHR-6000T Will this need its own listing in the forum? ( Now named the Aura EZ 4K Freely Recorder)
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I had one a long while back and it did give me a few probs. I’m going to put my faith in Humax for an update then maybe I might have to go back to the old Fox.
EEPhil
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For a while this month I was recording Boon on ITV4 (yes I know it's also on Rewind TV) but I've got bored with it. (Only watching because later series were filmed in Notts). There were two showings of the same episode. One was blank most times, the other was okay. The blank one could be watched using VLC rather than the built in player.
Owen Smith
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If you had come here we could probably have resolved your HDR Fox T2 problems or at least diagnosed it as a bad box needing replacement.
My parents' HDR Fox T2 had basically a bad hard disc from new, I was running custom firmware fixdisk several times a year to keep it working until I swapped the disc. If fixdisk had been available while the box was under warranty I could have made a warranty claim.
Thanks, but I am always hopeful that Humax can release a decent reliable Freeview recorder. Surely it can’t be that difficult to do? It’s not like going to the moon is it? What are these guys paid for? If they can’t do their job they should be sacked imo.
Owen Smith
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The HDR Fox T2 was the closest Humax ever came to a decent reliable Freeview recorder. Things have got worse since then in my opinion.
Management want results faster and faster to release before the competition, so the engineers don't get chance to do their jobs properly these days.
Maybe it was confined to ITV4 as that is a channel I never record and cannot remember the last time I even watched anything there.
EEPhil
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Maybe, but it's that old D3&4 problem that was supposed to have been fixed.
You might be right that it was the pinnacle of Humax products, but as I remember the old Fox had a major problem with subtitles synchronisation which meant that if you were watching an American language programme for example you had to keep rewinding after any break in dialogue to understand what was going on. Not good. And it didn’t have four recording channels or updated apps. I’m hoping that after 10 years or so Humax have got their act together.
You can live in hope.I’m hoping that after 10 years or so Humax have got their act together.
Do I detect a decline in your usual unwavering optimism there Brian ?You can live in hope.
I think it will be improved, but I also don’t think it will ever be as good as people were hoping it would be.Do I detect a decline in your usual unwavering optimism there Brian ?
EEPhil
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If only.Just my opinion but I think they should have concentrated on getting the issues on the Aura sorted out, that would have improved their declining reputation rather than put out another sub par product to replace it, they then could have done as Manhattan has and put out a separate Freely box that existing Aura owners could buy and maybe bundle the 2 boxes together at a discounted rate for new users maybe even with a remote control that operated both that could also be sold to existing users who wanted to add Freely.I think it will be improved, but I also don’t think it will ever be as good as people were hoping it would be.
They ARE doing a lot of work on the Aura.
They HAVE discontinued the Aura
Owen Smith
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I never use subtitles (except for burnt in ones eg Astrid in Paris, scandi noir series) so wouldn't know. But why would a programme in American be a problem anyway, yours and my English are fine and American is pretty close to that.
I have two HDR Fox T2s so can record four channels. Apps are a waste of time in a low volume box like this, within a few years they will all have stopped working. The likes of Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Youtube will lose interest rapidly in keeping their Apps running on this sort of box. I bought an Apple TV 4K for running Apps, similar boxes are available from Roku, Amazon and others.
Quite the opposite. The drive to lower costs, competition from cheap Chinese competitors, and wanting stuff released earlier has all lead to a lowering of standards.I’m hoping that after 10 years or so Humax have got their act together.
EEPhil
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I was going to post "Which Aura?" before you commented. Perhaps Martin has inside information that Humax ARE working to update the Freeview Aura. It needs to be a good job, they've been working on it for a long time
EEPhil
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There are problems that occur with videos and subtitles downloaded from the internet*.
I wouldn't expect the same to be true of recordings made on the device. If there are problems surely they'd be for any country not just American ones.
I think someone (was it Martin?) reported problems with subtitles on recording (and maybe live) - but I don't think that was dependent on the source country.
* Video might be 24 or ~30fps but the subtitles 25fps or vice-versa.
I find it difficult to understand American actors’ dialogue. They tend to mumble and the speech is often obscured by the soundtrack.
Working subtitles should not be a problem. I know my mother has subtitles turned on permanently on her Humax 5000T. I think that was the peak Humax, even if it said a recording had a problem it still usually played, and subtitles were spot on.