Hello!
New on the forum. I've just replaced my Sky+ with a 1010s, and liking it so far on the whole.
It seems ok so far but I have to say that I'm already missing some Sky+ functions (even though I think the Sky interface is tired and unintuitive in many places, and I surely don't miss the subscription costs!):
Features that should be added, IMO (if anyone from Humax is reading...:)
1. Play button to resume playback of last recording from where you left off (seems very obviously useful and should surely be added!). I note other forum users have said this also.
2. Shortcuts to 'Humax' media section on the remote or perhaps even allowing the user to assign shortcuts to the 4 coloured buttons that appear to do nothing most of the time. This would mitigate some of the lengthy navigation steps that I have to go through a lot (e.g. navigating to films on DLNA media server on my network takes ages, often just to go back to the movie that was the last one played (see point above!)
A few features that are advertised that don't work - I couldn't copy files off a USB stick onto the box - I got a spinner that said 'copying' and it stayed there for several hours. Nothing happened.
DLNA playback seems pretty picky about sound formats - it's probably the least capable media renderer that I've encountered.
The website at myhumax.net, which is very poor, claims that there are a load of apps that should be compatible with the 1010s and available for the UK but there's no apparent way to install any of them. Eh? Not really an app store is it. No way to erase the crud default apps off the box either. Daily Star?! This whole section seems like a poorly conceived afterthought.
Feel free to shoot me down I'm looking forwards to future software updates that might make this an even better product.
Nick