I currently have both a 2000t and a Fox-T2 in my house and so can directly compare the two. My Fox-T2 shows an average signal strength of 50% on all MUXs whereas the 2000t shows an average of 33% and I've had a couple of signal breakups. Humax are clearly using less sensitive tuners, probably to save money.
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| Mon 13 Jan 2014 16:36:12 #11 |
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moo - 3 hours ago »
I currently have both a 2000t and a Fox-T2 in my house and so can directly compare the two. My Fox-T2 shows an average signal strength of 50% on all MUXs whereas the 2000t shows an average of 33% and I've had a couple of signal breakups. Humax are clearly using less sensitive tuners, probably to save money.I think you're placing too much trust in the 50% and 33% actually meaning something absolute. It could mean that when the Fox-T2 says 100% the 2000T is simply at 66% with the same signal strength, but they rescaled it so that higher signal levels can be discerned.
You can only compare percentages on identical hardware with identical software.
| Mon 13 Jan 2014 20:09:46 #12 | -
moo - 5 hours ago »
Humax are clearly using less sensitive tunersI agree.
But not because of the metre readings for the reason that Owen gave.http://myhumax.org/forum/topic/hdr-2000t-poor-signal-strength/page/2#post-23224
| Mon 13 Jan 2014 21:46:52 #13 | -
Owen Smith - 1 hour ago »
I think you're placing too much trust in the 50% and 33% actually meaning something absolute. It could mean that when the Fox-T2 says 100% the 2000T is simply at 66% with the same signal strength, but they rescaled it so that higher signal levels can be discerned.
You can only compare percentages on identical hardware with identical software.Well I don't believe that, as the Fox-H2 has never had issues with signal breakup and has worked flawlessly. The 2000t works most of the time but 20% of the recordings always say loss of signal and I've seen it break up on live TV a few times too.
There were also reports of the very latest Fox-T2 models having a different less sensitive tuner than the older models so it would make sense that the two share hardware.
| Mon 13 Jan 2014 22:06:28 #14 | -
I'm happy to accept hard evidence that the new tuners are less sensitive as given in the quoted post by someone else. But the signal strength meters mean nothing, it's an arbitrary nunber not comparable on different models.
| Mon 13 Jan 2014 22:12:18 #15 |
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