Humax DTR-T1000 YouView Digital TV Recorder

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desertcart.co.uk Review Introducing the Humax YouView DTR-T1000The new Humax YouView box is a twin-tuner recorder offering an easy to use TV service with over 70 digital channels and integrated seven day catch up from across BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD and Demand 5, subscription free. All in one box. The seven day scroll back guide Scroll Back Guide The seven day scroll back guide brings together a whole week of catch up from across the BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD and Demand 5. Simply scroll back through the TV guide and select your favourite show. That’s all there is too it.On Demand Choose from thousands of TV programmes, series and films. All ready to watch when you are.More Episodes Whether you’re watching a show on live TV, a recording or just browsing on demand, with the press of a button you can find and watch all related episodes. Search across all of YouView’s content Search Search across all of YouView’s content using a remote control. Simply type in the first few letters of the programme. You can also filter searches by type, e.g TV, radio, music video.High Definition Brighter, sharper pictures and sound. YouView supports full HD. Connect the DTR-T1000 to your HD ready TV and enjoy BBC One HD, BBC HD, ITV1 HD (STV HD in Scotland) and Channel 4 HD (Clirlun in Wales), all subscription free. The box will also upscale standard definition programs, making sure every image looks as extraordinary as possible. Plus, when making a recording you will prompted if an HD version of a programme. Record, pause, and rewind live TV Record, Pause, Rewind Record one show while watching another or record two shows while watching a third from the on demand library or the hard disk drive. The HDR-T1000 boasts a built-in 500GB hard disk drive that can store up to 300 SD hours of TV programmes - that’s more than enough for over 150 films. You can also pause and rewind live TV.Series Recording When selecting an episode of a series for recording, you will be given the option to record the whole series.Please see below for additional recording features.Extraordinarily Simple To enjoy the full YouView experience you need good digital TV coverage and a minimum broadband speed of 3Mb/s. There’s a clever little app to check both of these at youview.comEasy Set Up Connect your box in 3 simple steps: Connect the box to the existing TV aerial.Connect to the TV using the HDMI cable supplied.Connect to the router using the Ethernet cable supplied. Please note, if your TV is more than two metres away from your route, you’ll need to connect using a longer Ethernet cable or powerline adapters (not supplied).Chase Play There’s no need to wait until the programme you are recording has finished before you can start to watch it. With chase play you can start watching from the beginning even while the rest of the programme is being recorded.Accurate Recording There’s no need to worry about missing a recording if the programme schedule changes, like a football match going into extra time or a breaking news flash. Schedule tracking starts recording your programme only when it starts being broadcast, so your recordings are always accurate.Split Recording Split recording lets you record two-part programmes with a break in the middle, so you don’t miss the second half.Smart Recording Alerts you in an instant if a clash occurs when you try to record a programme and suggests an alternative time to catch the show if it’s repeated or being shown on another channel.Note: The above features are available on channels where the correct and accurate data is being broadcast. Some channels may not support all of the Freeview+ HD services.More InformationFor further information please go to youview.com. Review: Good Product but flaky and poor support from Humax - I bought this box at the beginning of September and was very happy with the features, ease of use and functionality. However it did lock up a couple of times causing me to loose the program that I happened to be recording. Then last week when switching it on the message "Boot fail, Invalid signature" came up on the screen and the unit refused to boot. I emailed Humax support immediately and when they failed to respond, phoned them. Humax Support asked me to fill in an exchange document and email it back to them with proof of purchase, which again I did immediately. In the form (which I returned a week ago) is a preferred exchange date and I had set that day to today. Two days ago I received a reply to my original email informing me that the item would have to be exchanged. I replied (immediately) to tell them that I had already filled in and returned the required documents. The next day I received a reply asking for my postcode, I sent the postcode straight back. Today, the day of the exchange, I received an email informing me that they had no record of receiving the exchange documents and could I resend them. I appreciate that emails do go missing but what I find really annoying is the slow response time from Humax Support. I had to arrange for someone to be available to make the exchange and will now have to do so again with no guarantee that it will actually take place. This could have been avoided if the support team responded within a reasonable time. So, in conclusion, early days for the product with obvious glitches in the hardware and software, but promising for the future if Humax get their act together. My advice give them 6 months to iron out the crinkles. 30.11.2012 UPDATE I have now received an assured exchange date from Humax 28.12.2012 UPDATE I have had a new unit from Humax for a number of weeks now it has frozen twice but otherwise is running smoothly. Review: This really ought to be better... - As a few others have said, when this box works, it is brilliant. I had one for over a year with no problems whatsoever - intuitive & attractive interface, fast access to On Demand and simple ways to record programmes or whole series. However, after a year and a bit it began to misbehave. Freezing, recording only parts of programmes, refusing to pause or rewind - and not always allowing resets etc. to be performed, and basically wasting hours of my life while I tried to figure it out. Eventually, in email conversation with Humax, they agreed to replace it, which I was impressed with. I got a replacement towards the end of July and it was fine for a month or so, but now has also started doing strange things. It froze on one channel, then the picture broke up and disappeared. It also refused to allow a reset to take place (error message), so the only option was to turn it off for a long time and hope it might come back to life. It did at first, and said it needed to retune - but after successfully doing this, froze at the '100%' screen, went blank, and now will not come on again after turning it off - not even the orange light. This is incredibly poor for something that cost over £200. I'm afraid the online forums are full of people complaining about this sort of problem, and really I'm astonished that they're still selling them. Clearly there are some major things that need ironing out. The fact that I've had two dodgy ones in a row shows you the likelihood of getting a good one! It's such a shame, because I really thought it was great at first - I'm sure it could be.