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RESUME PLAY/SERIES is the MOST important function of any video device, set top box, recorder, catch up service
Checkout the biggest organisations in the business Netflix, ITVhub, More4 and you will notice the main characteristic is not New Listings or Most Watched but RESUME PLAY/SERIES
Thats because people expect to be able to continue watching from where they left off without spending two hours fishing around for the right series, the right episode, the right time within the episode to continue
Any device that does not support RESUME PLAY/SERIES will not be selling this time next year
The 4000 series used to support this both for recordings and external media, but due to some college student getting their hands on the software this has been removed
For RESUME PLAY/SERIES to work effectively needs 3 rudimentary ingredients
Checkout the biggest organisations in the business Netflix, ITVhub, More4 and you will notice the main characteristic is not New Listings or Most Watched but RESUME PLAY/SERIES
Thats because people expect to be able to continue watching from where they left off without spending two hours fishing around for the right series, the right episode, the right time within the episode to continue
Any device that does not support RESUME PLAY/SERIES will not be selling this time next year
The 4000 series used to support this both for recordings and external media, but due to some college student getting their hands on the software this has been removed
For RESUME PLAY/SERIES to work effectively needs 3 rudimentary ingredients
- Store the "Watched Until Time" in a shortcut so it knows what time to resume playing (Humax rep says this is impossible but that used to work fine prior this last update)
- Create a RESUME menu showing recordings in order of Most Recently watched First (Same recordings, just a different order, 2 minute fix, worked fine prior the update until Humax removed the Recent menu)
- To Resume a Series the Episodes should be kept together (in a folder) and kept IN ORDER (Humax does not sort external media in order,
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