Well, my replacement box now appears to have failed (the original having suffered the terminal hard drive issue 18 months ago). The new box started playing up a month or so ago, at first occasionally it wouldn't come out of standby and required a power cycle to boot, then this began to happen more frequently, a return to factory setting didn't help and now the box won't power on at all, no red indicator light although the ethernet cable socket light is showing, so power is getting to it.
I'm pretty disappointed in Humax to be honest, to have 2 boxes fail in 4 years does smack of unreliability and were it not for the Richer Sounds extended warranty i'd be £500 out of pocket. If Richer Sounds agree to replace this one does anyone know if newer units are more reliable or are Humax shipping the same old boxes?
Based on my experience I would not recommend Humax 1000s.