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stevek – 46 minutes ago »
Had Humax record Box for about a year now.
Record failed, this is happening often with no real pattern at all.
Please start by telling us which model of Humax box you have?
PatrickYARM – 3 hours ago »
The Sony SVR HDT500 has several HD TV broadcast recordings (also backed-up to ext Harddrive) but we know Sony no longer make PVRs any and are trying to future-proof the “collection”. I presume the Sony files are encrypted.
I don’t know anything about the SVR HDT500 but a quick Google found a review which certainly backed up your suggestion that recordings are encrypted. You need to find a Sony forum to ask if there is anyway of removing the encryption; if there is then I would be confident that they could be made to play on a Humax.
PatrickYARM – 2 hours ago »
I can play recordings on the Humax via the network and obviously on the Humax directly. I am trying to “save” my many HD recordings from a Sony SVR HTR500 to play them in the future (when the HTR500 dies).
But that is different to the problem you were describing. Are the recordings made by the Sony encrypted? What format are they in? If they are not encrypted then it should be possible but it may mean doing some work to reencode them if the Humax won’t accept the current format.
Andy_K – 10 minutes ago »
Sutton Coldfield – 45km, bearing 216
Derby- 6km, bearing 241
OK I don’t know enough about aerials (or your setup) to comment about whether 25 degree difference would be a problem. My advice is wait and see if somebody else here has some suggestions otherwise you will probably need to talk to an aerial installer and see what they advise.
Andy_K – 48 seconds ago »
Before your last reply I went into ‘Manual Search’ and looked at channel 48’s details as it appears to be already tuned to that. The details are Ch 48, Freq 690000, DVB T and 8MHz but the strange thing is that the strength and quality levels appear to ‘pulse’? For a second or so they report Strength – 52%, Quality – 70%, then both go to 0, then Strength rises to 52%, Quality rises to 100% and both go back to 0 etc.
Could this be why it’s intermittently available?
That isn’t good. You won’t get far with Signal quality that isn’t consistently 100%. What is the bearing of the Sutton Coldfield and Derby Transmitters from your home? This is given on the Digital UK web page you have looked at previously for each transmitter.
scriabin – 21 minutes ago »
I contacted Humax who advised that the problem is known about (a resistor on the MB – whether that’s the whole truth is uncertain as that’s what their representative was told to say).
Can you offer any other help?
“No”.
Try ringing again and telling the agent that you believe there is an offer of a refurbished box for £55 for people affected by this specific problem.
Andy_K – 1 hour ago »
I can see where you have taken the 48,51 and 52 for the Derby list for BBC A, D3&4 and BBCB HD respectively but the corresponding multiplexes for Sutton Coldfield using my post code are 43, 46 and 40+ and therefore different to the numbers you have quoted. Is this because you have used a different postcode?
No those are the duplicate channels from Sutton Coldfield and you don’t want duplicates or you will be in a world of pain.
I can’t find ‘Signal Detection’
It looks to me as though Signal Test may be the FVP-4000T equivalent of signal detection.
but I can find ‘Manual Channel Search’ which requires the following 5 things to be set, ‘Channel’, ‘Frequency’, ‘Transmission’ (DVB-T or DVB-T2), ‘Bandwidth’ and ‘Network Search’ (Set on or off).
Can I use the manual channel search to search the Derby channel’s and what settings should I use?
The general procedure is described in a rather ancient FAQ for the HDR-FOX T2 https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/transmitters#post-2336 but I am not sure how to delete all multiplexes before starting but that is certainly what you want to do before manual tuning. Maybe when you have done it you could write a FAQ for the FVP-4000T.
Andy_K – 26 minutes ago »
Having entered my details it shows that the transmitter we are aligned with (Sutton Coldfield) at good reception in every category whilst east of here (Waltham) has variable reception for BBC B HD, ARQ A and COM7 HD and good in the other categories.
Interestingly there is a transmitter in Derby, where we live, and the website says ‘The Derby transmitter supplies additional regional services to viewers of Sutton Coldfield). I presume that this is why we can receive intermittent East Midlands BBC, although BBC A, D3&4, and BBC B HD are all rated as variable.
Normally being tuned to more than one transmitter is a bad idea but maybe in this case it would work. Is there anybody else on the Forum who uses (or has tried) the combination of Sutton Coldfield and Derby?.
Does this suggest that a re-alignment to Waltham would lead to too many compromises?
I think it suggests that trying the combination of Sutton Coldfield and Derby is the most likely option but Waltham doesn’t look impossible to me (using a random Derby post code).
The first thing you need to do is understand which multiplexes your box is tuned to; I don’t have an FVP-4000T but try looking under Signal Detection. I think the correct list would be 48, 51, 52 (from Derby) and 39, 42, 45 from Sutton Coldfield (plus possibly 33 and 35 which carry the COM7 and COM8 multiplexes but are transmitted at lower power than other multiplexes and hence may be more difficult to receive). You may need to manually tune to get this set of multiplexes.
Andy_K – 1 hour ago »
We live at the western edge of the East Midlands area and 90% of the aerials in our area are positioned to the west midlands transmitter, including ours which is about 15 years old. After watching East Midlands local programmes on cable I was pleasantly surprised to see an east midlands option when I first tuned the box which I selected.On the first day, much to my surprise and delight, we received perfect bbc local news on channel 1.
Since then however we can only tune in to that channel at about 10% of the times we select it, the other 90% of the time we get the message ‘The receiver is not receiving a signal or the signal is too weak’
At the risk of stating the obvious, if the aerial is pointing at the West Midlands transmitter, it is hardly surprising that reception from the East Midlands transmitter is marginal. To determine what ought to be possible with a properly aligned aerial I suggest using the DigitalUK Coverage Checker at http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/coveragechecker/main/index/dummy/NA/yes
Come back and ask questions if you need help in interpreting the data. If it looks as though reasonable reception is possible from the East Midlands transmitter then realigning the aerial yourself or paying someone to do it would be my advice.
Stephenesque – 1 minute ago »
On the very rare occasions that the end is missing, which happens more with instant recordings than with scheduled, I’ve always been able to find it on catch-up.
Instant recordings aren’t covered by accurate recording on other Hunmax products.
SteveP – 23 minutes ago »
Did accurate recordings have the same issue?
Accurate recordings didn’t suffer from this issue. I am also surprised you have had problems with accurate recording as our experience on several different Humax boxes is that it works very well (although not perfect but then sadly nothing in life is). I should add the caveat that accurate recordings will only work properly if the box is tuned to a single transmitter; it it is receiving from more than one transmitter all bets are off.
SteveP – 1 hour ago »
I’ve got manual padding configured. I found with accurate recording enabled some channels were transmitting less than accurate info, and over-running recordings were sometimes getting the endings chopped off.
I don’t know about the FVP-4000T but certainly on some of the earlier Humax boxes the use of padding resulted in failure to update the EPG if the box only came out of standby to make recordings. I think the bug was fixed in a software update. I wonder if this is the same sort of bug rearing its head again. Maybe Barry knows?
SteveP – 18 minutes ago »
I therefore assumed that the EPG hadn’t updated as it couldn’t access the Internet, or receive over the air updates as the periodic recordings it made weren’t long enough for it to receive an update.
Do you use manually specified padding or accurate recording?
PatrickYARM – 27 minutes ago »
(a) I have FTPd (transferred) the four Humax files for one TV programme to a Folder on my laptop ie. the .TS, .HMT, .THM, .NTS files
I suspect that will be the problem. All content on the HDR2000T is stored in encrypted form and FTPing will not remove encryption. For SD recordings you can remove the encryption by copying the recording to attached USB storage. Removal of encryption from HD content is a subject that is not allowed by Forum rules.
smiffy12 – 53 minutes ago »
I’ve never been a great fan of Seagate so have purchased a WD Red 2TB drive.
That may not be the best choice but time will tell. The problem with drives not deigned for PVR usage is that as they age and sectors emerge that need mapping out, the drive will try to preserve the data by making multiple read attempts. This can result in stuttery play back. But it should be OK most of the time.
