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Marius

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uk1 - 1 hour ago »
At the moment it feels very backward and sort of rustic and retro compared with Youview ...

Thanks for the reply.

Your comments inspired me to check out the Humax DTR-T2000 500GB YouView box. It has the essential "Skip forward/backward button" and all the other features I need.

Everyone seemed well pleased with it until March 2017 when the morons ruined that too with a retrograde change of interface that generated a collective howl of rage in the YouView forums with comments like:

https://community.youview.com/youview/discussion/7366729/youview-next-gen-first-impressions/p9

"Have joined this forum just to add my voice. I ABSOLUTELY HATE THE NEW INTERFACE. I want to be able to list my recorded programs as text, NOT images, and I want to be able to sort them alphabetically so I can find all X-Files together, etc. It used to be so quick and easy".

And:

"How they have the gall to call the latest firmware an upgrade is beyond me. They takeaway major functionality, make things more difficult to navigate, Did they give the job to the work experience person? Whoever is responsible for this travesty should be fired".

And:

"Just received this unexpected, unwanted, bloody awful "update". Tried to navigate the cluttered and hard-to-read myview recorded programmes and turned the wretched thing off after failing to find something that was there yesterday. Will be looking for alternatives to this rubbish".

The members of this forum were similarly unimpressed:

https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/t2000-sudden-menu-style-change

Backwards, backwards backwards...

So is the YouView interface still an unmitigated disaster or have they fixed it since then?

Like the poster above, I certainly want to "be able to list my recorded programs as text, NOT images".

And can I use a DTR-T2000 with it being connected to the internet?

Ah, why is it all so complicated?

| Wed 8 Nov 2017 3:43:09 #161 |
Barry

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A few misconceptions being posted here so some corrections...

You do not have to press multiple buttons to use the skip function, press the arrow key corresponding to the direction of skip required displays the timeline, continual presses will skip the duration user has set.

Paging up and down in guide is by pressing the CH up/down button, as is paging in other areas.

| Wed 8 Nov 2017 8:00:48 #162 |
Harters

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Barry - 27 minutes ago » Paging up and down in guide is by pressing the CH up/down button, as is paging in other areas.

Yes that is correct using the channel up/down key, but you used to be able to nudge the guide up one line at a time using the central arrow key, now when you get to the top instead of just nudging up to the next channel it will display the whole page, therefore acting just the same way as the channel up/down key.

This really annoying trait was introduced in the update after they made the major change to the guide.

Basically if you are watching ITV, go into the guide which will have ITV at the top, then press the up arrow key, instead of showing the next channel BBC2 at the top of the guide, it moves up a whole page and puts BBC2 at the bottom.

The only way around this is to type 101 whilst in the guide and this will put BBC1 at the top whilst remaining on ITV, so more button presses

| Wed 8 Nov 2017 8:35:38 #163 |
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Just received shiny new 2TB FVP-5000T. Set up was a breeze.

I have added the 4000T device to my Harmony remote and a watch FVP-5000T activity. Just tested it and it succesfully changed from watching HDR-1000S to FVP-5000T. The remote menu button functions as the Freeview Play button.

The FVP-5000T device has not yet made it into the Harmony Device database.

The harmony combined with it's hub, does seem to be a much superior control to the supplied RM-L08 which is very directional and seems to have limited range.

As others have said it's not as snappy as Humax boxes like the HDR-1000S and HDR-FOX-T2. No idea if the response is improved from the 4000T former model which I guess would be down to the newer software.

One tip I have already found is that the Harmony favourites are handy to quickly select a channel when in the epg. eg Pressing BBC 1 HD jumps to 101 near instantly wherever you are in the epg.

Will post more when I have used the box for a while.

| Wed 8 Nov 2017 9:57:03 #164 |
Barry

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Skip forward/back is by using the left/right arrow keys around the central OK button.

| Wed 8 Nov 2017 10:12:45 #165 |
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Just tried this on my new 5000T. Default forward skip is set to 120 seconds (Most ads are 4 minutes).

3 presses of right arrow key skips forwards 4 minutes which is identical to my HDR-1000S except for the one extra key push. Repeating using the the left key quickly corrects any overshoot.

| Wed 8 Nov 2017 10:15:12 #166 |
uk1

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Barry/Graham, thanks for the correction and that is so much better! Skipping away happily!

Is there a way of seeing graphically or numerically how much of the drive has been taken and remains eg 85% used 15% remaining? I haven't found it yet.

Also is there a way of forcing guide if some channels have no programme info? Turning it on and off seems to help but I wondered if there was a more elegant way.

I do prefer the the way that in guide if you are on a page that starts with say ch 0101 and you land on 0101 then 0101 remains the top line rather than forces the line above in view ie 0000. I use to find that irritating in Youview but Freeview seems better.

(Barry? Thanks for deleting duplicate posts)

| Wed 8 Nov 2017 10:39:48 #167 |
Barry

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Sorry about the duplicate posts, we appear to be having a few server issues which I have raised with our hosts.

Re HDD space top left of recordings page indicates space remaining in Hours for SD or HD.

For % indication:

Settings
PVR Settings
Storage
Internal HDD

| Wed 8 Nov 2017 10:49:49 #168 |
uk1

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Thanks Barry, I thought the dupes was me ......

I'm very impressed with the "search all" function within Freeview Explore. For example 'Father Ted" brings up,all the series neatly laid out. I suspect that this is going to be very useful app. And also the genres within It are good. There seems to be a personality split with it being called Freeview Explore but once in it is called Freeview Play.

| Wed 8 Nov 2017 11:04:02 #169 |
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No way of forcing the guide to populate faster. It's delivered serially so a complete load from scratch takes approx 5 minutes. Would normally only be first boot of the day. Set a power on timer at say 07:00 and power off at say 07:15 should ensure when you boot the box later the epg is complete.

| Wed 8 Nov 2017 11:49:40 #170 |