Harters - 12 hours ago »
AJ - 13 hours ago »
Harters - 12 hours ago »
I just hope and pray that Humax listen to all of these complaints and start making a decent PVR again. If they are not going to use the coloured buttons, just take them away from the remote as they are a constant reminder how how useful they used to be!
....I refuse to believe most of these could not be resolved in one sweep.
In saying that there are some great features of the box and I couldn’t say I have experienced all bugs mentioned here by people. I am also comforted in that there has been a software update which I am hoping will bring more improvements!
You may be lucky as you have the 5000, but spare a thought for us poor early adopters of the relatively short lived 4000 as I think the chance of any useful updates for us is very slim.
I feel pretty let down by the 4000 to be honest. Its a treat when we go to bed and use the far superior 'old' HDR-FOX T2 which we have in the bedroom. The only major advantages of the 4000 in our case is the extra tuner, all the online features I want to use are on the NowTV box which cost less than £15 and is super slick and fast!
As for NOW-TV could be down to the reduced resolution 1280 x 720 (720p), guessing the NOW TV box outputs 720p25). Considering the ill advised postings when HD was 1440 x 1080 but backed by a much higher bitrate there may be nothing wrong with that,
I don't have a Now TV source but suspect that the picture quality suffers.
Basically 1920 x 1080 interlaced at 25 fps (Full HD 1080i, or in the case of most Freeview-HD content 1080p25) is pretty much the same as 1280 x 720 at 50 fps (720P50). The enhanced true frame rate more than compensates for most content depending entirely on your TV/Monitor.
I assume you don't have a large screen TV in your bedroom. If you had the limitations of 720P25 may well be much more obvious.
If you were to watch a NOW TV box on a large screen TV at the sort of distance from the TV where the extra pixels make a noticeable difference you may well have a different opinion.
4K (especially HDR) is great. But only if you can accommodate a very large TV to see the enhanced resolution (and extra brightness and colour depth from HDR). If you watch a Full-HD TV too far away you will not appreciate the extra pixels.
In respect of the 5000T software in terms of the main features, picture quality and recording reliability I don't think you are missing very much.
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