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Hello fellow Humax owners
I’m seriously considering replacing my brilliant but ageing 9200T as it hangs too often now after several years.
I looked at the FVP-4000T and was almost on the point of clicking BUY when I read that the EPG does not support the “i” button which shows the program synopsis, description of episode etc that you get on the 9200T (and every TV’s EPG I’ve ever used!).
Surely this can’t be true? The chap who reported this apparently phoned Humax who said this as true but I’d like independent conformation.
Anyone know for certain as this is a show stopper for me.
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Whilst there is no i button you can use the OK button for synopsis whilst browsing the EPG.
Thanks for the welcome – and the informative reply!
What about when a program is being shown (either live, delayed or recorded) can the program synopsis be accessed then too?
Your answer may well determine whether I finally click that BUY button (no pressure)!
Live press OK for mini guide then OK again for synopsis.
Paused, only via guide and OK
Delayed in playback, via OK
Recorded, you can view the synopsis in the timers list, when playing back the only way to read synopsis is via the recorded programmes list.
That sounds pretty straightforward (if a little different to the 9200T). Thank you very much for your very detailed answer (again).
Well, I’ve reserved one from my local store and will pick up a 1TB Mocha version on Sunday (we hope, I don’t always have the utmost faith in these large warehouse type box-shifters but we will see).
Since I posted here I’ve read a few online articles and the expectation is that there will be a few OTA updates to get the menu/EPG a bit quicker and no doubt some other improvements too – but it’s early days yet, it seems, for Freeview Play. It seems that I’ve finally got to the bleeding edge of technology, amazing.
Now to research a TV to do this new digibox justice! MY TV is only HD-ready not even full HD (it made no difference when the 9200T did not support HD channels umpteen years ago – October 2010 to be precise).
Aresby – 2 hours ago »
Now to research a TV to do this new digibox justice! MY TV is only HD-ready not even full HD (it made no difference when the 9200T did not support HD channels umpteen years ago – October 2010 to be precise).
If your current TV is capable of 1080i you should get a good sharp picture on the HD channels: the HD channels are mostly in 1080i anyway, with selected programmes in 1080p. I would see how it looks first. Unless you are looking for an excuse, of course 😉
Ha ha! No I’m not looking for an excuse although we do have some minor issues with our current LG TV giving some green speckles on a couple of channels (you have to look closely).
But I’m pretty sure our TV does 1080i or 720p (is that the definition of HD ready perhaps?) so we’ll get the digibox today and just see how it looks first.
That said, I’ve just looked at a few websites and unless you want all bells and whistles (incl 4K) you can get a 48″ full HD TV for well under £500.
But we’ll check out the results of the digibox first.
Just a follow up posting here.
Got my Mocha FVP-4000T today and it’s transformed the quality of the TV picture when compared to the 9200T over SCART. Even SD is better!
Just basking in the glow of my first HD program…
Aresby – 9 hours ago »
Ha ha! No I’m not looking for an excuse although we do have some minor issues with our current LG TV giving some green speckles on a couple of channels (you have to look closely).
But I’m pretty sure our TV does 1080i or 720p (is that the definition of HD ready perhaps?) so we’ll get the digibox today and just see how it looks first.
That said, I’ve just looked at a few websites and unless you want all bells and whistles (incl 4K) you can get a 48″ full HD TV for well under £500.
But we’ll check out the results of the digibox first.
HD is defined as 720 lines or more. All HD broadcast sources use 1080 lines (iplayer HD is 720 lines).
All HD Ready displays have to be capable of displaying 1080i and 720p content. That does not mean they are capable of a 1:1 pixel display. Your TV (unless it’s an ancient plasma) will have 768 lines. This means when displaying 1080i content it has to scale down to 768 lines, and when given 720p to scale up to 768 lines.
Scaling down is much easier than scaling up because you have all real data to reduce the resolution. When scaling up you have to guess what’s missing.
A good HD Ready display will give a much better picture than a poor Full HD model. especially up to around 40″.
Do not be tempted to swap your TV for a cheap full HD supermarket set (usually made by Vestel).
If you feel you need a larger Full HD TV, get one from a major maker like Panasonic or Sony, and avoid the low end models. Even companies like Panasonic rebadge Vestels these days.
That is most enlightening.
Our current (ancient) LG 42PC1DV, HD-ready, Plasma TV certainly supports 720p (it’s what we have set for our CCTVs – we had to downscale the output as 1080p, the only other option, was not supported as it is not full HD).
On that basis I guess it must also support 1080i (we didn’t have to do anything to get the Digibox displayed correctly) so HD-ready it appears to be.
Compared to many of the new full HD sets we’ve looked at (from £299 – £800) there’s not an appreciable difference in our view. All the SMART stuff (apps, catch-up etc) is pretty much integrated into our new Digibox, not that we tend to use that anyway (well, we might the catch-up TV, now that it’s a near-seamless operation in the EPG).
We’ve put any plans on replacing our TV on hold whilst we consider what benefits it would give us.
And we will most certainly take into account your caveat about cheap full HD being inherently inferior to a branded HD-ready.
Thanks for the info, appreciated.
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