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    joby1

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    I have just bought a Humax hb freesat 1000s , and I brought back a lot of video transferred to my Seagate portable storage device , will I be able to play these through my Humax box without formatting , like I do on the TV , if I do need to format it will I lose the stored video when I unformat , also can I record to a memory stick , Joe

    | Thu 16 Apr 2015 11:26:47 #1 |
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    The HB-1000S will not record to a memory stick only a USB hard-drive (unpowered recommended).

    A hard-drive can be attached in a number of ways - one as a dedicated device (recording, playback, buffer functions) or as a USB device for playback. I have not verified the playback only mode except with a memory stick. In the first mode I imagine, from the warning message, it is rendered unusable (without reformatting) by other devices.

    The HB-1000S can also play back a range of video formats as a DLNA client - this may be the way to go if your "Seagate portable storage device" is a DLNA server.

    | Thu 16 Apr 2015 12:41:06 #2 |
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    I tried to format my hard drive , but it keeps asking to put a pin number in , as i don't have a pin i cant put one in , there is no pin number in the instructions , so how do i get a pin

    | Fri 17 Apr 2015 15:28:14 #3 |
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    joby1 - 10 minutes ago  » 
    I tried to format my hard drive , but it keeps asking to put a pin number in , as i don't have a pin i cant put one in , there is no pin number in the instructions , so how do i get a pin

    Default PIN for Humax boxes is 0000 (four zeros).

    | Fri 17 Apr 2015 15:38:58 #4 |
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    thanks graham

    | Fri 17 Apr 2015 17:01:59 #5 |
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    joby1 - 2 hours ago  » 
    thanks graham

    No problem, that's why this forum exists

    It clearly worked

    Surprised the info wasn't in the documentation (it should have been).

    For future reference for other kit, if the default isn't 0000, guess what its probably 1234

    | Fri 17 Apr 2015 19:52:22 #6 |

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