Victor Delta - 5 minutes ago »
But surely the ever growing number of integrated Freeview TVs also require OTA updates...?
Why? The Freeview specs aren't changing. Once the bugs are sorted out in a TV manufacturer's platform, they're not likely to need further updates.
You have more faith in software than I do.
Victor Delta - 1 hour ago »
You have more faith in software than I do.
I write software for a living, I know how buggy it often is. I was just trying to suggest why there are so few updates as you have spotted.
My TV is about 8 years old. I've never updated the software in it, and I'm not sure if Sony have ever issued any. It still receives Freeview SD.
Unless protocols change, existing bugs generally remain dormant. It's only when something new arrives that they're supposed to be able to handle that you find out they don't. If the way the broadcasters use Freeview remains the same then the exposed bug rate will be low.
For example, when Freeview HD started switching between 50i and 25p, the sound on some Sony TVs glitched on the transition. Sony had to issue a software update. If the change to the broadcasts hadn't happened, the bug would have remained dormant. Another example was the introduction of a second HD mux, some set top boxes couldn't handle that.
The rate of change in how Freeview is broadcast is slowing down, and the rate of newly exposed bugs has gone down with it. There are still bugs, but they are ones that don't get triggered.
Many thanks for that. So the DTG website probably does still work, but there are very few updates to show now.
Le's hope the Humax one we are all waiting for comes along soon.
The DTG website definitely still works. It was only a couple of months ago that an update for the HDR-FOX T2 was distributed over the air. Humax don't seem keen on providing downloadable copies of their software these days, so the update the HDR-2000T is aching for will almost certainly be OTA and will be preannounced on the DTG website. When an update is confirmed, Barry will probably give us a heads-up on this website.
Does anyone have a HDR-1800T yet? I wonder if RF loopthrough is enabled on the units that are shipping now?
I have to wonder given the amount of time this issue has been outstanding whether Humax are able to implement a fix? There can be no excuse for leaving consumers in the lurch like this. I have removed the 2000T from my current wish list until this problem is resolved.
I've already stated in post #2 that a fix has been engineered for the 2000T, however, as always, the engineers have been looking at 'other stuff' as well.
Barry - 1 hour ago »
I've already stated in post #2 that a fix has been engineered for the 2000T, however, as always, the engineers have been looking at 'other stuff' as well.
Maybe an explanation as to how this fundamental flaw got through in the first place would be welcome.
Given the seriousness of this fault for the way most homes have their TV set up, it beggars belief that Humax are being so tardy in releasing a fix. This is absolutely vital functionality, and lack of it is almost certainly losing Humax sales and resulting in returns for a refund. Every household I know, every single one, has a setup that expects RF loop through to work. It's only off by default to meet EU 0.5W standby regulations, which is pointless since everyone turns on RF passthrough. If 0.5W is the mandatory standby current, then it needs to be met with RF passthrough enabled (which would remove it as an option, and good riddance since everyone turns it on).
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