I think as a general overview Humax have lacked a certain focus and ultimate quality control for a while. Im not sure what year they lost the plot but I sense its been a bit up and down for them
When I saw the 8000T, even with its 40gb hard drive I thought this is a company that means business. It was a quality product that shook up a market full of plastic rubbish with slow channel change times and software glitches like freezing.
The 9000 series seemed to have software update issues, fan always on,fan noise issues and clock failure issues.
I sense than a period when it was going well(perhaps the Fox) but they crowded the product range with DTR vs HDR prefixes...youview and freesat. It just got a bit confusing as to what the latest freeview model was and who they were allowing to put branding on them. I think there was a 1000 a 1010 etc and various fascias for very similar models.
Then they started building to a price to compete with others in the battle to lower prices. The HDR 2000T is flawed but looked more inspiring on the shelf than a very plastic looking Panasonic with tiny function leds in the corner. A fair point is that there was little else in the price area that looked tempting. However its not hard to add a three colour led and some extra care in presentation
I dont know how the crowded transmission and British transmission standards complicates matters, if at all.
Having owned a 8000T and briefly a 9200 I relied on some brand loyalty
Ok this is just my viewpoint and I missed generations and was then shocked by the hard drive noise in the Humax economy model.
The 4000 designer series doesnt inspire me. Im just looking for them to launch a rock solid, quiet, standard looking box that does what it says on the box and gets rave reviews 
I will certainly be looking to pay more than bargain basement to get what Im looking for
Best wishes
| Sun 4 Jun 2017 15:45:56
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