It was the Auras 4 tuners and high capacity that attracted me. So how many tuners does the Manhatten have? I found that to be the major limitation of the HDR Fox T2.
Humax can simply sort all their problems out by the old maxim of business: "LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS ..."
The Manhattan T3-R has only two - so it is just like the Fox T2 in that respect.
But I now find with Freeview Play that 2 tuners is not such a significant limitation, especially for BBC programs. A small number of them are even in UHD!
The Manhattan will be delivered today, so within a few days I will post an initial report.
Yes its all very disappointing will try to change mine after the Xmas period has calmed down. Tried everything under the sun par installing a new log periodic aerial and amplifier. "Havenview" in another thread put his finger on the problem when he found if you rebooted on a SD channel which was breaking up ,it wood come good with 100% quality and then if you changed channel it would break up again.
I ignored all the bad reviews thinking they would have sorted it by now buying a £50 off one from Humax Direct.
All my other kit works fine!
BJ321 - 2 hours ago »
It was the Auras 4 tuners and high capacity that attracted me. So how many tuners does the Manhatten have? I found that to be the major limitation of the HDR Fox T2.
Humax can simply sort all their problems out by the old maxim of business: "LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS ..."
The aura has 3 tuners, and the Manhattan T3-R has 2 tuners.
Yes I realised there are only 3 tuners in the Aura - so to clarify what I meant: You can record 3 channels and watch a 4th if the multiplexes allow it.
Well my aura is going back to John Lewis for exchange
pixelation problems terrible volume dropouts when watching live and recorded tv,
Have done all the usual things cable changes endless factory resets,
will report about new box in due course
Yes I would urge anyone having problems get the box changed via retailer or Humax as I did. Do not waste any more time trying to get it right!
https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/fragmented-picturelack-of-signal
bobspark - 1 hour ago »
Yes I would urge anyone having problems get the box changed via retailer or Humax as I did. Do not waste any more time trying to get it right!
https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/fragmented-picturelack-of-signal
I think that advice is a bit extreme. The symptoms can also be caused by incorrect tuning or cable/amplifier faults. If they have been ruled out then I agree that the supplier should be contacted.
I don't know if this will help anyone, but this is my experience.
I bought an Aura from Humax, connected it into my existing system Auto tuned and got pixelation and drop outs on all channels. Signal strength varied from 0 to 100% and quality was all over the place. Manual tuning gave no improvement
Refitting the T2, I got a rock steady 50 to 65% signal and 199% quality with perfect picture.
Before repacking the Aura for return. I increased the aerial signal (via my aerial distributor) such that the T2 registered 85 to 95% signal, then replaced the Aura. Rock steady picture on all channels, both the signal strength and quality 100% across the board.
Conclusion: Aura's tuners are significantly less sensitive than the T2, but the reported signal strength is higher.
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