In my view, the manual which comes with this excellent device rather lets it down. What do others think?
The first problem is that it is printed in greyscale, which makes the screen shots very difficult to read, and totally unrepresentative of the real thing. Even if Humax need to control their costs by using black and white for the hard copy (which is a bit penny-pinching for a machine costing over 200 quid) surely it wouldn't be too much to ask for there to be a colour version on-line which users could download if they so wished?
The second problem is that it lacks any sort of introduction which explains the basic concepts. The instructions assume that you fully understand what it can do, and the circumstances under which you might want to use each feature. For many new users, this is not the case!
The third problem is that the manual doesn't keep in step with firmware updates. The manual which came with my machine was clearly written for an earlier version of the firmware, and failed to mention new features such as the FTP interface. I appreciate that making frequent updates to a physical book isn't easy, but there might at least have been an addendum - but nothing! Failing that, one might reasonably expect to find an updated manual on-line - but again, the one which can be downloaded is the same (out of date) one which came with my machine.
If any of the senior members of this forum have the ear of Humax, and feel that these are valid gripes, maybe something can be done about it. The machine itself is the best thing since sliced bread - it's just a pity about the manual.
WT
- certainly had an estate whose manual was for the saloon and one whose manual for the radio was for the generic version not the one with touchscreen sat-nav etc.
