This was very helpful. I'd found number 8 intuitively... "Page up/down - as usual for Humax use the CH up/down key." But although it was in the FAQs, I had totally missed... "9. In guide, as stated in para 7, initial display is now and next, press right arrow and then you can use << >> for 2 hour skips, again as per the FAQ mentioned in last para."
What a relief, I used to dread the arrival of the forthcoming week's TV listing as it took me so long to enter everything. So thanks for a reminder of that answer.
I have a question about something else that I may have missed, but I'll mention something that I was asked in a PM in case this rings a bell with Barry or anybody. I had said that I was going to put the box at the back of the cupboard until it was fixed with as/w patch, but I keep popping up and am obviously using the 400T. I get asked why if I went back to my "old" box - why not just use that for, say 6months before getting the 400T out again.
The answer is that I have two "old" boxes that are currently connected and usable (a couple of much older ones are at the back of the cupboard. One is the FOXSAT-HDR. I currently have a dish problem there, nothing to do with Humax , but I have parked that for the time being.
The reason I bought the 400T was to replace the "FOX-T2" which until a year or so ago was the best box I'd ever had. Then things went wrong.
(I will apologise in advance for referring to another box on the wrong forum and want to flame me, but I think it is fair as Humax would want to know details like this. So thanks to all who managed to control their flaming desires).
So question number one, the FOX-T2 reached a point where the sub-titles were out of sync by 10-20 seconds. In other words you had to say that the box no longer had usable subtitles. Anybody else; anybody know of a solution. (Of course I had done all the usual stop it, wind back a bit etc.)
I apologise for that deviation from the norm. and can now get back to the 400T.
I, as have many of us, found the two red/blue lights misleading and Barry has done his best to explain that "mistake" in the box's design. ( Also I think many of us would have liked a front panel?)
I, like many others on the forum have found that if it is evening and the red light is on and you think that is because it is recording, well, just go to the pub or to bed. It is most unlikely that you can switch on the box.
BTW, you can read all the previous suggested solutions regarding HDMI cables but these seem to be red-herring. I have replaced my HDMI with a scart, no HDMI anywhere and all the problems are the same?
Thanks for your patience - the final problem.
I had finally learnt that if I wanted to use the box at time "x" then it must not be recording at time "x".
I changed my "plan" to just going in each day to an "empty" box switch on, get the blue light, set the programmes to be recorded.
This worked for about a week.
Over the last week I have got up, the box would either have a red light or a light so faint that I couldn't see it.
I would switch on via the remote and a blue light would appear.
I was then able to watch, say, BBC1 (or anything else) on the TV.
However, if I changed the source to "the box" I would only get a blank screen (plus 2-3 seconds confirming that my source was the box.)
For the first few days my frustration led to the usual method of removing the plug to force a hard re-boot.
Later, I thought what will happen if I leave it for a day or more.
The answer is nothing.
I'd really be interested to hear if anybody has answers or similar problems.
I hesitate to offend Barry yet again, but in my opinion ths box IS a dog and was released before full QC had been completed.
This is very sad. I have never looked at any box other than Humax in the past but I think my my next one is likely to be a Panasonic.
Thanks everybody for taking the time to read this.
| Sun 27 Dec 2015 11:45:53
#4 |
