Humax FHR-6000T Will this need its own listing in the forum? ( Now named the Aura EZ 4K Freely Recorder)

StvJam said:
I find it difficult to understand American actors’ dialogue. They tend to mumble and
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There have been many complaints about this in BBC series. There's the odd one or two UK regional accents I have problems with. Less so with other English speaking countries.
 
EEPhil said:
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
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Exactly, my point was it should have been fixed before it was discontinued and replaced by a product that lacks much of what people wanted from the original Aura. It was by no means obsolete it just did not work well.
 
StvJam said:
It’s like King Canute. Basically people who want to record Freeview are running out of options and are eventually going to be drowned by the relentless waves.
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You are being the King Canute, who was actually demonstrating to his subjects that such things are unstoppable.
 
Owen Smith said:
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.
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Except that there is no Chinese competition in this particular market sector as far as I know.
 
I started reading this thread from its start but by the end it went off somewhere...

How can one record Freely, when it is encrypted and Freely control who gets the decryption keys? The whole idea is to prevent recording and thus advert skipping, so presumably a recorder maker will never get the key.

What Humax are now talking about is a combined Freeview and Freely box which has the usual Freeview functionality but for Freely it is just a converter to HDMI.

Now once you get anything to HDMI you can break it out (at the video card level) and record it. I believe Netflix is routinely recorded with "HDMI splitting", but since there are software (Windows) players then the key(s) will eventually leak. But Humax could not do this else they would not be able to sell it on the High Street.
 
peterh337 said:
I started reading this thread from its start but by the end it went off somewhere...

How can one record Freely, when it is encrypted and Freely control who gets the decryption keys? The whole idea is to prevent recording and thus advert skipping, so presumably a recorder maker will never get the key.

What Humax are now talking about is a combined Freeview and Freely box which has the usual Freeview functionality but for Freely it is just a converter to HDMI.

Now once you get anything to HDMI you can break it out (at the video card level) and record it. I believe Netflix is routinely recorded with "HDMI splitting", but since there are software (Windows) players then the key(s) will eventually leak. But Humax could not do this else they would not be able to sell it on the High Street.
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You really should read more before posting, nobody thinks it records Freely. "has the usual Freeview functionality" It does not.
 

Aura EZ 4K Freely Recorder​

A Freely recorder by name only that you can record Freeview channels but not watch them live unless you disable Freely by disconnecting it from the internet and also lacks many of the features commonly found on previous Humax PVR's
 
Owen Smith said:
That's a problem with all TV these days, not just American actors.

So you're talking about recorded off air subtitles then, not downloaded extra files?
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No, I think Humax is very popular with pensioners, many of whom require subtitles to watch live TV and their recorded programmes. Probably this works fine with Freely, I don’t know as it doesn’t interest me.
I don’t want to waste my time watching adverts. BTW yesterday I was watching on YouTube a song Brilliant Trees by David Sylvian, a very gentle atmospheric song, and twice the song was interrupted by loud adverts for things I wasn’t ever going to buy in a thousand years. It totally ruined the ambiance tbf.
 
StvJam said:
Brilliant Trees by David Sylvian, a very gentle atmospheric song,
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Off topic but as the OP I will push my luck.

Good tune, I heard it the other day on Stereo Undergroud on Rewind actually I have just been watching 3 episodes and a fourth has just started, Well worth giving a series record if less commercial music of that era is to your liking, some Cocteau Twins, The Fall, Massive Attack to The Clash, Undertones, The Jam and no cheesy pop.
This is playing at the moment on the episode I am watching.
 
trog said:
Off topic but as the OP I will push my luck.

Good tune, I heard it the other day on Stereo Undergroud on Rewind actually I have just been watching 3 episodes and a fourth has just started, Well worth giving a series record if less commercial music of that era is to your liking, some Cocteau Twins, The Fall, Massive Attack to The Clash, Undertones, The Jam and no cheesy pop.
This is playing at the moment on the episode I am watching.
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Totally with you on that. That show is already on series record. The Fall is/was a favourite although I never saw them live. Check out The Fallen Women if they are ever in your area!
 
So what I read/heard was pretty well what the product does.

So it does output Freely to HDMI. Where is the final decryption being done? Is it in the TV? If in the TV then will it work with "old" TVs, say 10 years old?

Incidentally will there ever likely be a Freely PC viewer?
 
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