I also had to cope with somebody of the older generation who defaulted to turning everything off - my solution was to put covers over switches and cover up pilot lights so that nothing looked on. To be honest we have tried leaving the box connected to mains power and this has resolved the problem for us.

The Humax can still be manually programmed (channel, date, time, repeating), or indeed a Freeview+ event changed to become a manual event. Schedule' for Record; The use of this term does make sense because the button/menu takes you to what can be an (easily set-up) extensive schedule of recordings.The Humax is very quiet in use and the onboard digital tuner produces a better picture than our old Thomson unit. So, hopefully the problems are all associated with a dodgy software update which will be sorted at some stage (soon please Humax). They also say that it worked straight out of the box and pulled in all the available digital channels. Seriously though, cheers for this, and yes I have the requisite piles of phono leads to dig one out from! The time is set properly, there do not appear to be any problems with reception when I am watching from the PVR, and this has only started happening recently.

The remote is reasonable, perhaps a little on the cheap side from an appearance point of view, but seems reliable enough in its function. The machine is still under guarantee, so if it is a fault I might get a new machine or a cash refund. This choice does render a couple of other options null and void but just read the instructions and make your choice. It is not the biggest of drives, but for those looking to record on an ad hoc basis this is more than adequate, giving you about 100 hours of television recording. Some mention that the recording quality is excellent and indistinguishable from a live broadcast, while others say that it failed to record successfully on occasion, and that the first unit was faulty.

Recorded programs on the hard drive are all fine, but upcoming shows preprogrammed ready to record are lost. You can pause live telly so say you want to make a cuppa you press pause, come back in say 10 minutes and press play to resume the recorded live telly so you didnt miss a bit of it. If you use the Freeview+ 8-day option on the TUTV PVRs then this is the same as that used by the Humax so will have the same characteristics.

Ummm, Gran, the word is 'Reservation' now, not record (the word that you and millions of others are used to) and to Reserve a program, you press the OK button not the record button. I'll check out the DigitalSpy link which clemenzina provided, and also see if an OTA update tomorrow will help ( http://www. To be honest my 9200T and Panny HDD/DVD-R also utilise the optical connection, but its really only the DVD player bit that makes proper use of it for 5. They mention that it freezes constantly, does not keep recorded, and the screen break up when playing back a recorded.

It takes a little while to get use to the features on the remote so it is worth taking the time to read through the manual and play with the settings a little to see what they do. I am seriously considering taking it back as I am so fed up of waiting for the update software which they keep promising and not being able to provide a date for when they are being broadcasted. Barclays will shut at least another 77 bank branches throughout 2024 and 2025 after announcing 20 more closures. He has strong opinions on the latest TV technology, Hi-Fi and Blu-ray/media players, and likes nothing better than to crank up his ludicrously powerful home theatre system to binge-watch TV shows.