Comments on: Humax PVR-9150T Freeview+ Recorder

By: Humax PVR-9150T Freeview+ Recorder (Review 2) - seenit.co.uk

Humax PVR-9150T Freeview+ Recorder (Review 2) - seenit.co.uk — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:01:12 +0000

[...] so my first experience with this model wasn’t great but I was sufficiently impressed with what I did see that I vowed [...]

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:02:50 +0000

The answer from Humax is that the issue seems to be a faulty hard drive so they’ve arranged to swap it for a new box.

In an effort for fairness we plan to conduct a second review of the model when we get this.

By: Martin P

Martin P — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:56:32 +0000

Shame – def one to take back to the shop, hopefully its just temporary first batch gremlins

By: wideband

wideband — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:38:12 +0000

You do not have to activate the time bar to skip forward/back in the EPG.

Use the FF/RWD buttons for a 2 Hour jump, or the Instant Replay/Commercial skip buttons for 24 Hour jump.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:28:59 +0000

Mark, just as you made your comment we updated the review to report that the box had started to work again.

Now, normally I’d keep an item like this running for a few days before publishing a review BUT these have been causing a lot of excitement on a number of sites and forums and it seemed inherently unfair not to say anything when people are potentially going to be buying them over the weekend.

IMO real end users people will make their decision based on how the box performs in the first few hours and a problem like this would see most consumers racing the box back to their local store.

By: Mark C

Mark C — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:17:42 +0000

Speaking as someone who works in the industry, Humax do have a generally good reputation but it sounds like you were very unlucky and got a duff product.

It may be a one off fault, but I can think of another PVR by a different manufacturer that is known to be an absolute avoid at all costs effort.