The Toppy really benefited from the open API that allowed anyone to create a TAP (or Topfield Application Program) so TAPs like MyStuff were developed by users who were willing to spend the time honing the Toppy user interface to as close to perfection as it could get. Humax are understandably devoting just the resources to provide a PVR that does the job and is competitive in it's target market, which it is.
My user interface gripes with the Humax (compared with my Toppy) are as follows:
1. If when changing channel via the EPG, you happen to select a programme that hasn't yet started, you're prompted to choose whether you want to record it or record the series - imho, it should just change channel and if you then decide you want to record the selected programme, then you press the record button and then the recording options should pop up.
2. When playing back a recording you're prompted to choose whether you want to resume from where you last played it, or play it from the start. A smarter way to handle this would be for the recording to play from where last stopped if the OK button was used to select the recording to playback, or play it from the start if the PLAY button was pressed to select the recording to playback.
3. When selecting a programme in the EPG, the bottom line displays the programme name and a bunch of icons which indicate whether it's HD, has subtitles and other stuff. It'd be better and more sensible if instead the details of the programme were displayed rather than those icons.
4. It's not possible to customise the EPG display so that the size of the text can be increased or the number of items displayed in one page of the EPG decreased - this would those whose eyesight isn't so great.
5. There's no external display or indication that the unit is recording and what channel is selected, though that's a minor gripe as I'm sure providing such a display would increase the physical size of this attractive and compact unit.
| Tue 23 Jan 2018 9:15:03
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