Hi Guys,
I just found this forum because I bought one of these boxes today and I was hoping I could get a bit of help with a few issues I've found so far. Overall I love what I've seen so far, very easy to set up and use (I come from Windows Media Center so anything seems simple). Anyway, here are my issues...
1) After auto-tuning the first channel I tested was BBC 1, which was a mess, completely distorted. BBC2 was the same an BBC News. Plenty of other channels worked fine though, including the HD channels, so I assumed that the auto-tuning hadn't worked (because my Aerial picked them up fine on Windows Media Center) but then I noticed that there were 3 copies of some channels. I had BBC1 on channel 860, BBC2 on 861 etc. and they had a perfect signal.
So, now I'm wondering if it's possible to swap channel 1 with channel 860 so I can have all the working channels together in the guide (as you can with windows). I read another thread about this and it seemed to only be possible with a lot of hacking. I put some of my favourite channels in my favourites but you don't sem to be able to reorder them either and there's no remote button to easily get to your favourites list.
2) I'm also wondering if having multiple copies of each channel will cause any problem with duplicate recordings and such?
3) I have a thin black bar down the right hand side of the tv and the channel logos are slightly chopped off on the left hand side, suggesting the whole picture has shifted about half an inch to the left. I can't adjust this on the TV (and no other source has this problem), so I'm wondering if it's possible to "horizontally shift" the picture on the Humax box. When I used Windows Media Center I could set overscan and position settings on the graphics card but I'm assuming the Humax box doesn't have the same level of control?
4) Is there a way to show the guide with your favourite channels on in. I know you can bring up the channel list and go right to show your favourite channels but that's fairly useless without being able to see what's on. Is that all the favourite list does?
5) Is it possible to sort your recordings by date? It seems to put your recordings in series folders then order them alphabetically, which isn't very helpful if you want to see what new recordings have happened since you last watched TV.
Any help with these issues would be really appreciated
Jon
I just found this forum because I bought one of these boxes today and I was hoping I could get a bit of help with a few issues I've found so far. Overall I love what I've seen so far, very easy to set up and use (I come from Windows Media Center so anything seems simple). Anyway, here are my issues...
1) After auto-tuning the first channel I tested was BBC 1, which was a mess, completely distorted. BBC2 was the same an BBC News. Plenty of other channels worked fine though, including the HD channels, so I assumed that the auto-tuning hadn't worked (because my Aerial picked them up fine on Windows Media Center) but then I noticed that there were 3 copies of some channels. I had BBC1 on channel 860, BBC2 on 861 etc. and they had a perfect signal.
So, now I'm wondering if it's possible to swap channel 1 with channel 860 so I can have all the working channels together in the guide (as you can with windows). I read another thread about this and it seemed to only be possible with a lot of hacking. I put some of my favourite channels in my favourites but you don't sem to be able to reorder them either and there's no remote button to easily get to your favourites list.
2) I'm also wondering if having multiple copies of each channel will cause any problem with duplicate recordings and such?
3) I have a thin black bar down the right hand side of the tv and the channel logos are slightly chopped off on the left hand side, suggesting the whole picture has shifted about half an inch to the left. I can't adjust this on the TV (and no other source has this problem), so I'm wondering if it's possible to "horizontally shift" the picture on the Humax box. When I used Windows Media Center I could set overscan and position settings on the graphics card but I'm assuming the Humax box doesn't have the same level of control?
4) Is there a way to show the guide with your favourite channels on in. I know you can bring up the channel list and go right to show your favourite channels but that's fairly useless without being able to see what's on. Is that all the favourite list does?
5) Is it possible to sort your recordings by date? It seems to put your recordings in series folders then order them alphabetically, which isn't very helpful if you want to see what new recordings have happened since you last watched TV.
Any help with these issues would be really appreciated
Jon