The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

ivyleaf

Pyxis We have a Humax one atm too but it's Freesat, which we got at a discount due to mr ivyleaf being disabled.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

So I'd just buy one ... come home ... remove my existing freeview box from its inline position ... put the new one in ... and Bob's Your Uncle?

My setup is currently:

Indoor aerial --> Freeview box --> Telly.

EDIT: Cor blimey, just googled Humax, looks like they cost almost as much as a whole new telly!

But worth it, otherwise I'd miss loads of good stuff!:D



Yes, you just plug the aerial lead into the box, connect the box to the TV, turn everything on, and it will guide you through the automatic set-up.
Easy-peasey.

Of course, it is dependent on your TV actually working! :whistle:


Edit.. I should clarify that it will still record stuff, even if your TV isn't working!

It might be something to consider if your current Freeview box goes belly-up, even if you don't want to get one yet.

The price varies depending on the number of hours you can record. There is a 300 hour one for £138.

Jackmydad

Another vote for the Humax. Very good. I think the biggest failing is in the channel's sometimes messing up the numbering of the programmes which tells the Humax what and when to record.
We've got an old HDR Fox T2, and I run unofficial firmware on it that gives things like a deleted file "bin" that hangs onto deleted stuff for a while, and a means to back up the schedule. Lots of other stuff as well. Most I don't need. From here https://hummy.tv/forum/

Pyxis

You might all be in time to see the 100-aircraft flypast on the TV at 1pm today.......100th Anniversary of the RAF.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

You might all be in time to see the 100-aircraft flypast on the TV at 1pm today.......100th Anniversary of the RAF.

That's the trouble with "the news" - I've seen more coverage about some boys in a cave the other side of the world than any planes in the air in my own country.

They might've had "a bit more interest" in it .... if they were more open about their archives/records. e.g. there's somebody's WW2 papers I want, you have to jump through hoops to get the information, not even knowing what you'll get ... and pay about £30 and wait for it to be sent back to you.

All I want to know is: what's there ... does it give a clue about date of birth, home address, relatives? I'm not really "interested" too much in dates served/where especially ... but I have a simple name of somebody and a service number and need more to find out who he was.

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

Another vote for the Humax. Very good. I think the biggest failing is in the channel's sometimes messing up the numbering of the programmes which tells the Humax what and when to record.
We've got an old HDR Fox T2, and I run unofficial firmware on it that gives things like a deleted file "bin" that hangs onto deleted stuff for a while, and a means to back up the schedule. Lots of other stuff as well. Most I don't need. From here https://hummy.tv/forum/

Two annoying things that the Humax doesn't do......

You can't 'mark' places on a recording that you might want to jump back to. I could do that on the old VCRs.
Plus, you can't manually override the recording settings, e.g. to set it to record something to start later, or finish earlier, than the scheduled time. I do occasionally want to do that.

They are relatively minor things, though.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

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Many years ago I had a boss.... lovely bloke (dead now). All a bit strange as his wife had left him and he had 3 sons... one he worked with, one visited at work occasionally (popped in for lunch with us at the works' canteen as he was in sales so was often in the huge building) and a 3rd son I believe that I never saw.

He had a ropey old VW camper that he/son would drive to/from work in together - and the entire back was filled with some kitchen units - which I think was a kitchen he intended to fit into his house. I worked for him for nearly 2 years and those kitchen units were always in there...

His home, where he lived with his son, was, it would appear by all accounts, a "work in progress" that never got progressed.

He had an obsession with recording - and he had 7 VCRs. Three types, two of each type and a 3rd of one. Every night he'd work out what he wanted to record and would set them all up to record stuff... all the stuff he ever recorded he documented/databased and stored on shelves. But he never got round to watching anything....

When he died there must've been half the house dedicated to shelves of old videos.

I think his intention was to video complete series in a run on single tapes.... but by the time a series had finished he simply never had the time to sit and watch it.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

When he died there must've been half the house dedicated to shelves of old videos.

I think his intention was to video complete series in a run on single tapes.... but by the time a series had finished he simply never had the time to sit and watch it.

Don't knock that habit. If it weren't for people like him, an awful lot of very classic programmes would have been lost for ever!

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Don't knock that habit. If it weren't for people like him, an awful lot of very classic programmes would have been lost for ever!

I bet his sons just did two tip runs... first to empty the camper of the kitchen units .... next to load it with old tapes. I doubt they even bothered to bring the camper home ...

Jackmydad

Pyxis wrote: »

Two annoying things that the Humax doesn't do......

You can't 'mark' places on a recording that you might want to jump back to. I could do that on the old VCRs.
Plus, you can't manually override the recording settings, e.g. to set it to record something to start later, or finish earlier, than the scheduled time. I do occasionally want to do that.

They are relatively minor things, though.

I think you can change the time on ours, but it's not something we do. Whether that's down to the custom firmware or not I don't know.
Worth having for the schedule backup. Our's crashed the other day and the schedule had gone!
Replaced with the auto backup.

The "mark" thing is annoying.
The best video recorder we had was one we inherited, A Grundig video 2000 (IIRC) Much, much better than VHS. System never caught on though.