Concerned that recording one show will stop you from watching another? No need to worry – the built-in twin digital tuner on this Humax model allows you to watch that dancing finale with your friends, while recording that family favourite to watch later on. You can even record an entire series at just the touch of a button, where new episodes will be automatically recorded as soon as they become available. But it’s more than just a PVR – with BBC iPlayer and YouTube on board you get a wealth of free video content at your fingertips, plus the wide range of supported media formats makes it an excellent entertainment hub for your DLNA and USB devices. Suggest you look in the forum and the FAQs for the HDR-1800T for the implications of that and other associated details. Surfing channels is easy – you can view the channel list, set up Favourite lists to weed out channels you never watch or browse programmes in the terrific electronic programme guide. what are my options for transferring the files themselves rather than streaming to my PC and recording them (again)? I am quite capable of fitting a bigger hard disk – I used to build PC’s!

http://XXX.XXX.X.XXX:9000/web/media/92.TS?WMContentFeatures=DLNA.ORG_PN=MPEG_TS_SD_JP_MPEG1_L2_T;DLNA.ORG_OP=01;DLNA.ORG_CI=0;DLNA.ORG_FLAGS=01100000000000000000000000000000&WMHME=1&WMDuration=17890000000&WMQ=1&WMHMETitle=VABoAGUAIABCAGkAZwAgAEIAYQBuAGcAIABUAGgAZQBvAHIAeQBfADIAMAAyADAAMQAyADIAMQBfADEAOAAzADAALgB0AHMA What would be the maximum size disk the Humax could work with, internally or via USB port? Any particular type or form factor needed? New TV Guide Surf & Scan Banner When watching TV press, the ‘OK’ button a banner appears at the bottom of the screen displaying programme information. Press either the up or down arrows around the OK button to scroll up and down the channel list displayed on the left hand side of the screen, if you then press ‘OK’ again the programme synopsis will be displayed in a larger pop up panel. This provides the option to record the programme or series or set a reminder!

Recordings Galore

With the Ethernet port rigged up to your router, you can also stream your own content from DLNA servers on the same network as the HDR-1800T. The unit supports an impressive range of formats including MKV, AVCHD, AVI, DivX, WMV, XviD, MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV and JPEG. Pause and rewind live TV, record two programmes at once and record entire series at the touch of a button. The 500GB hard drive holds up to 300 hours of recordings, smartly organised into categories and series. Before you copy the HD recordings to the USB Flash, or USB HDD, then you could use a 3rd party piece of software called foxy to tweak one of the recording's internal flags. If you did this then the HD programmes would also be decrypted on USB copy. Details about foxy can be found on another Humax forum called hummy.tv. If you were to attach a USB flash drive or a USB external HDD then you could copy recordings to the drive using the functions on the HDR-1800T. Any standard or Radio recordings will be very slow to export to the drive as the HDR-1800T will decrypt the copy. If you use FTP directly to a PC the transfer will be a lot faster but none of the recordings will be decrypted. Through the Humax TV Portal you can directly access BBC iPlayer to catch up on those programmes that you might have missed. Looking for additional entertainment then watch YouTube or listen to internet radio, additional apps are also available to enhance your viewing pleasure.

Although the HDR-1800T is like a computer it only has two drivers for wi-fi dongles and so you will need to try them out to see if they work. When we compare free-to-view TV services Freeview Play, YouView and the Freesat, — the Freesat satellite television service has the advantage of offering more channels, including HD ones. The key difference, though, is that Freesat is delivered through satellite, not an aerial. Both the .Ts and .Tts files played almost instantaneously in VLC. I would think that VLC would mean more to yourselves because a lot of it is meaningless to me, so I kept with all the defaults. Is open source and available for loads of platforms (but not 9 3/4). More info - https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ I use two pieces of software ie Windows Media Player and/or VLC (great bit of kit - deserves a serious look at). is probably just the wrong side of the digital cliff. Sometimes old or physically damaged cable can cause odd effects too.Step up to the 1TB HDR-2000T and recording time increases to 250 hours of HD and 600 hours of SD, plus it comes with a wireless dongle in the box and adds BBC News, BBC Live TV App, when installed on a mobile device and paired with the FVP-5000T when in the home, provides a multi-room solution for viewing TV in another room. I would expect that you've got a donkey's years old group A aerial from the analogue days, connected with dubious cable. This was fine for that and for most of the digital muxes given the high power that CP has. The trouble is that channels 55 and 56, which are COM7 and COM8, are well outside the response of such an aerial, which typically covers 21-37.

Like FiestaOwner, I too have a HDR-2000T, the only differences to the 1800 being that it has a 500GB (a few can have a 1TB one, rare though) hard disk rather than the 350GB one on the 1800, and it also has a USB 2 port if you want to upload video or photos for storage (which I used, though just to see if it worked). All recordings on the HDR-1800T are encrypted and in their encrypted state can only be played by the HDDR-1800T that recorded them.Yes. And that is the preferred method by some as the radio and standard definition recordings will be decrypted on copy (and also the HD ones if you use foxy on each one of then you want decrypted). The ultimate subscription-free TV experience: the T3-R perfectly combines over 85 Freeview channels with on demand TV from BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, My5, UKTV Play and more. Pause live TV to answer the door or make a cup of coffee then return to where you left off. No more missing that vital moment or dialogue. With the 320GB hard drive you can record and store up to 80 hours in HD of your favourite programmes. The fascia is minimally adorned with a few stylised buttons controlling power, volume and channel changing. A sliver of light peeps out from below the central ridge, glowing red when recording or blue when watching live TV. There’s no LED readout – everything you need to know is displayed onscreen. If you want to make a recording, just highlight it in the programme grid and hit OK. A dialogue box asks if you’d like to record the whole series, the whole programme or set a reminder. Easy peasy. If a recording conflicts with others, onscreen dialogue boxes let you select which one to cancel.