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grahamlthompson – 16 seconds ago »
Hogweed – 13 hours ago »
Having played with it for a few days now, this machine feels raw, buggy, and generally on the market a year too soon, as I’ve observed others saying elsewhere.
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The HDR1000S launched late 2012 (I can’t remember the exact date), so how can it possibly be launched 12 months too early.
The white 1010S made it to the market a few weeks after, though it was announced around the same time as the 1000S.
There was a few issues when Freesat updated Freetime to the latest Showcase equipped model. These mostly seem to have been related to problems with Freesat servers and not the box itself.
Mine dates from launch, it’s always worked very well. It’s been used with two Sony TV’s and my Current Panasonic TV and 3 AV recievers (Denon, Sony and my Current Yamaha), without any HDMI handshake issues. I would look at your TV (Have you checked if a firmware upgrade is available ?).
grahamlthompson
The HDR1000S launched late 2012 (I can’t remember the exact date), so how can it possibly be launched 12 months too early.
There was a few issues when Freesat updated Freetime to the latest Showcase equipped model. These mostly seem to have been related to problems with Freesat servers and not the box itself.
Mine dates from launch, it’s always worked very well. It’s been used with two Sony TV’s and my Current Panasonic TV and 3 AV recievers (Denon, Sony and my Current Yamaha), without any HDMI handshake issues. I would look at your TV (Have you checked if a firmware upgrade is available ?).
I do apologise for the lack of precision in what I said – what I meant was that the machine seems to me to be in an immature state; and I have read comments to that effect elsewhere, so I’m not alone in my opinion.
Although I know very little about AV equipment, I work in IT, and am used to dealing with software which has been released months or years before it’s in any fit state to be used by its target population; so what I meant to do was express my perception that that applies to this machine.
I don’t want to get into a debate about it – as an everyday user of these things, that’s how it feels to me; your experience is different. I could get into detail about all the different things which make it feel this way to me – such as the menu graphics, which are more reminiscent of a 1980’s Spectrum computer than of a modern device etc – but what would be the point? You think it’s good, I don’t.
The SKY box which it replaced is fast, easy, intuitive, bug-free, and doesn’t require multiple button presses to perform tasks which should need only one – the only reason I got rid of it is that I don’t want to pay SKY a subscription just to be able to record free channels.
As regards “looking at my TV”, I’m really not sure what you mean – everything else works fine with it (SKY box, LG Blu-Ray player, Sony receiver, Philips Freeview PVR) – so I’m more inclined to look at the thing which doesn’t work!
The user interface is freesat’s design, Humax wrote it to their specification.
Quote:As regards “looking at my TV”, I’m really not sure what you mean – everything else works fine with it (SKY box, LG Blu-Ray player, Sony receiver, Philips Freeview PVR) – so I’m more inclined to look at the thing which doesn’t work!Looking at it from a wider perspective, most users aren’t reporting this problem, which makes it more likely to be something to do with the environment rather than the Humax box.
Is HDMI-CEC turned on? If so, it might be worth turning it off and see if that makes a difference. Samsung call it Anynet. Permanently off, on my Samsung TV.(Edit. Apologies to Repassac, who already suggested this.)JamesBIs HDMI-CEC turned on? If so, it might be worth turning it off and see if that makes a difference. Samsung call it Anynet. Permanently off, on my Samsung TV.[/s] (Edit. Apologies to Repassac, who already suggested this.)
Yes, but well worth reminding me, as I hadn’t got round to it yet 😳
Looks like my humble telly (Samsung UE40EH5000) hasn’t got that. Tempting fate I know, but the Humax hasn’t misbehaved since I set the output to 1080p, as suggested above. Fingers crossed…
The setting may well be in some obscure place. One way to tell is to manually put the TV in standby. If the Humax also goes into standby then it’s got it.
I never liked the Auto output resolution – the Humax has an excellent upscaler – let it do the work rather than the TV.
Hogweed – 1 hour ago »
Looks like my humble telly (Samsung UE40EH5000) hasn’t got that. Tempting fate I know, but the Humax hasn’t misbehaved since I set the output to 1080p, as suggested above. Fingers crossed…
On my ES5500 it’s Menu -> System -> Anynet.
JamesB – 39 minutes ago »
Hogweed – 1 hour ago »
Looks like my humble telly (Samsung UE40EH5000) hasn’t got that. Tempting fate I know, but the Humax hasn’t misbehaved since I set the output to 1080p, as suggested above. Fingers crossed…
On my ES5500 it’s Menu -> System -> Anynet.
There’s a thread somewhere that if I remember correctly was a Samsung TV), that had no way of disabling CEC. The poster in the end bought one of the HDMI adaptors that disables the CEC contacts. I did have a look at the OP’s TV manual, despite it clearly having some advanced features it makes no mention of CEC control at all.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lindy-HDMI-Less-Female-Adapter/dp/B00DL48KVI
If It’s not implemented on the TV, wouldn’t that effectively disable it?
JamesB – 15 minutes ago »
If It’s not implemented on the TV, wouldn’t that effectively disable it?
The TV in question had CEC, just no way of turning it off. Turning off the TV turned of the Freetime box. As there’s no way of turning it off on the freetime box the adaptor sorted it out.
grahamlthompson – 3 minutes ago »
JamesB – 15 minutes ago »
If It’s not implemented on the TV, wouldn’t that effectively disable it?
The TV in question had CEC, just no way of turning it off. Turning off the TV turned of the Freetime box. As there’s no way of turning it off on the freetime box the adaptor sorted it out.
That’s diabolical.
JamesB – 1 minute ago »
grahamlthompson – 3 minutes ago »
JamesB – 15 minutes ago »
If It’s not implemented on the TV, wouldn’t that effectively disable it?
The TV in question had CEC, just no way of turning it off. Turning off the TV turned of the Freetime box. As there’s no way of turning it off on the freetime box the adaptor sorted it out.
That’s diabolical.
I will see if I can find the relevant thread.
Well now. If I turn the telly off – or on again – with its own remote, the amp goes dead for a few seconds, then carries on (as it’s getting its signal from the Humax, then to the speakers, it doesn’t need the telly to make a noise).
That would seem to indicate that there’s some sort of control going from the TV to the amp, though not on from there to the Humax…?
I suggest you have a look at the receiver manual (pp48-49) in the light of Graham’s post about the CEC possibly being permanently enabled. You may need to change a setting on the receiver.
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