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grahamlthompson – 12 hours ago »
Rather think your post is the one that’s biassed.
You are talking nonsense. I was trying to bring balance to the debate. I own both both boxes; do you? The main disadvantage of the HDR-FOX T2 at this point in time is that you cannot buy a new one. The main source is the reconditioned items offered by Humax Direct. They do benefit from a one year warranty but some of the problems that have been reported by users include hard drives with over 2500 reallocated disk sectors or a disk with over 5000 power on hours.
If users want the benefits of the custom firmware then they should buy an HDR-FOX T2 at this time (it isn’t impossible that the custom firmware will appear on the HDR-2000T in the future but there are no guarantees). If they want a reliable PVR that will perform well from the moment that it is taken out of the packaging then they should consider a new HDR-2000T or a reconditioned HDR-FOX T2.
mailing – 9 hours ago »
So the HDR-2000T only has iPlayer and no other catch-up services (ie, no ITV Player, no 4OD, etc)?
Correct.
But it does allow transferring recorded programmes to a PC?
It is the same as the HDR-FOX T2 (with standard firmware) in this respect ie SD recordings can be decrypted by copying to an attached USB hard drive and played on a PC. HD recordings can only be decoded by using a utility called Foxy to fool the HDR-2000T into treating them as SD.
Does the HDR-Fox-2 have an internal HDD or does it just use an external HDD?
Internal.
In which case, can it record two programmes simultaneously?
Yes it can.
grahamlthompson – 52 minutes ago »
The current HDR2000T loses some capability compared to the HDR FOX T2.
I do wish that people would be balanced and point out that the HDR-2000T also gains some useful capability compared to the HDR-FOX T2 (IPTV Channels mostly work, write to NTFS formatted USB drives, better scrolling performance through the guide).
grant_whittaker – 1 hour ago »
I have done this with my Windows 7 Ultimate machine – the “Convert to MBR” option is greyed out! (How annoying!)
I might just buy a 2TB drive and keep this 3TB unit for backups to the computers?
Unless anyone has any ideas?
Have you deleted the existing partitions?
grant_whittaker – 13 hours ago »
Do we know if there will be an OTA update that will fix this problem at all?
There have been no suggestions that I can remember that this situation will be improved but I have no inside knowledge. The HDR-FOX T2 is semi obsolete so I wouldn’t expect too many more software updates and I think there are more pressing problems that the majority would like to see fixed. Maybe Barry can comment?
JohnB47 – 13 hours ago »
Well, that’s a nuisance. The guy from Humax suggested I do it the Humax (ie quick) way, so I wonder if that would really have cleared my skipping problem up?
There are three varieties of what people call the skipping problem. Doing a “Humax” format will help with one of them.
If I find a way to connect it up to a PC and do a full format (I only have a ‘family’ laptop myself and don’t want to start messing with that), is there any particular type of format that’s required?
You would need a USB to SATA adapter that can be purchased on eBay for less than £10. It doesn’t matter what format you use providing it is a “full” format that examines each sector on the drive.
Edit: Sorry, but are you saying that, having done a full format, the Humax still wouldn’t be able to work with it if the format finds anything wrong? Or is it just if it finds bad blocks (ie a major problem?).
Doing a PC based format will be helpful if the hard drive has spare sectors available to map out any marginal sectors that are found by the format. The problem comes when the finite supply of spare sectors has been exhausted. You can determine this by looking for bad blocks after a format or using a utility to read the SMART status information from the drive.
cerclebois – 4 hours ago »
If not the fan, then what else to do, could it be?
The only other obvious possibility is the hard disk drive.
JohnB47 – 41 minutes ago »
One seconds work can’t have done that surely?
Correct. The Humax format is equivalent to a Windows quick format. It just writes a blank file system to the drive hence the speed. The only way to do a full format is to attach the drive to a PC and do a full format which will examine the disk in the way you suggest. At the end of the format use chkdsk to see if any bad blocks are reported. If they are the hard drive is at the end of its life in the Humax because (as far as I know) the Humax file system cannot cope with bad blocks.
bw78007 – 31 minutes ago »
can anyone help I have a 9300t just weeks old latest sofware 2012 but when i record or watch BBC channels I get a bad picture and sound the signal quality is all over the place dosent happen all the time but it only happens on channel 50 I get my signal from winter hill
First thing to try is a manual tune using Link to Biggles manual tuning instructions
grant_whittaker – 5 minutes ago »
Thank you – what is an “MBR” type partition and how would I do that?
MBR partitions are the original partition type used by Windows but they are limited to 2TB. What operating system is the computer you will use running? On Windows 7 go into disk management, bring up help, type MBR and amongst the topics is how to change GUID (also known as GPT) partitioned disk into an MBR partitioned disk.
grant_whittaker – 22 seconds ago »
Got an external Hard Drive for birthday which I have connected to the T2.
It doesn’t seem to recognise it at all??
It’s currently formatted as NTFS – will re-formatting it to FAT32 help?
As far as I know the largest drive that the HDR-FOX T2 has been reported to see is 2TB which would suggest that the kernel doesn’t have support for GPT partitions. It should work if formatted as 2TB using an MBR style partition but obviously you are wasting 1TB. Some of the later Humax boxes do support 3TB drives so >2TB support might conceivably arrive as a software update.
aks100 – 23 minutes ago »
All these boxes are Linux based it appears, but my old PVR-9200 takes about 15 seconds from off/standby to display the channel picture, and about 12 seconds to silence when turning off again.
I have just timed our HDR-FOX T2 running 1.03.12 and it takes about 22 seconds to boot from standby to display of a picture. I would expect some difference between different makes and models of TV due to different HDMI implementations.
psinclair1969 – 1 hour ago »
I think you are right. I’ve checked my box and the firmware update to FHTCP 1.03.12 on 7th Feb 2014. Which is around the time this problems started occurring.
You are looking at the software release date not the OTA which occurred 2-28th February. The one thing that does somewhat improve performance (but doesn’t restore it to anything like its original performance) is to trim down the number of recordings in the schedule by deleting series that have finished. Go into the Guide, press the yellow button and scroll down to the bottom of the list and delete any recordings where you know the series has finished by pressing the blue button. In our case we went from forty scheduled recordings, twenty of which were for series that had finished. This made a very noticeable improvement to the performance.
m5rcc – 1 hour ago »
I can’t use Humaxcheck because the Humax is not recognised by the laptop at all as it just stalls as soon as it loads the loader.
You misunderstand; to use humaxcheck you must connect the drive to a PC not via the USB port on the Humax.
The easy way to see if it is worth spending more time on this is to disconnect the hard drive and power up the Humax without the drive. It should function as a non recording set top box and demonstrate that the problem is with the content of the hard drive.
m5rcc – 29 minutes ago »
With the first solution, I am unable to select any of the menu options, such as installation.
With the second option, neither inserting the aerial on reboot nor holding standby on bootup does anything.
Inserting the aerial? The idea is to boot it up with the aerial removed because corrupt EPG data causes the box to freeze when it starts attempting to update the EPG. Doing a reset before inserting the aerial clears the corrupt data.
Just gives the impression its completely bricked, although the loader does load…
Have you tried the solution using humaxcheck? The alternative is to take the drive out and use a disk wiping utility to erase all the data and then let the 9200 format it again.
