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With the 2000T the front panel LED has a number of functions. A red LED can either mean it is switched into standby or it is recording – bizarre; (blue is on) I read somewhere that you can tell when the 2000T is recording as the red light changes in intensity.
I’m sure the person that wrote that was possibly drunk at the time and just staring at the red light. I have checked this a number of times and the intensity does not appear to alter. I have even filmed it.
Can anyone else confirm this alleged behaviour?
The dim red light of standby stays dim red even when recording as long as it stays in standby. If the HDR-2000T is recording then switching on the HDR-2000T does brighten the red light.
Toggling between standby and on when it is recording does demonstrate the difference in intensity.
If you are not sure whether it is switched on or not and want to switch it on then use the ‘0’ button as that will switch it on if it was in standby and won’t do anything horrible if it’s not.
I will try it later when it’s recording the early evening news and report back.
It’s a pretty feeble indication though surely? I know they were building to a price point but I would have thought they could have run to some sort of recording indication that wouldn’t have increased costs.
Mind you they forget to include pass-through so goodness knows what sort of a day the designer was having when he had the 2000T on his drawing board. 🙄
1. I do not drink.
2. I did not allege, I stated my observations on this forum.
Pass through was not forgotten, there were hardware limitations which have been overcome with a software fix
Barry – 39 minutes ago »
1. I do not drink.
2. I did not allege, I stated my observations on this forum.
Pass through was not forgotten, there were hardware limitations which have been overcome with a software fix
Interesting read Barry. I take your point regarding pass-through. If you have followed a few of my posts on the subject you will note I am now using a splitter as I found I found the update less than perfect.
Luke was right about the two shades of Red. However, hand on heart if I was to miss seeing the switchover then I wouldn’t be able to tell what state the machine was in – barmy.
A trick I use to tell if the Humax is off or off & recording is to put a spare fibre optic cable into the SPDIF socket. This gives me an extra red light to tell me the machine is working (probably recording). Needless to say this wont work if you use the SPDIF for your audio connection or don’t have a spare cable. It isn’t 100% reliable – you still need to be able to see the difference between dim red and not-so-dim red.
EEPhil – 26 minutes ago » It isn’t 100% reliable – you still need to be able to see the difference between dim red and not-so-dim red.
Out of curiosity I sometimes have a USB LED plugged in
The USB LED light stays off in standby if power saving is turned off and the HDR-2000T has been in standby for at least 40 minutes before the next recording’s scheduled start time.
Is it the same with the optical out?
I have something similar though only as a consequence of running out of HDMI ports some time ago.
The 2000T is routed through a HDMI hub which has a tiny LED for each port. As the 2000T HDMI port becomes active I can see the LED light up behind the TVs glass stand (if I do a bit of nifty neck craning).
You do have to wonder why Humax couldn’t come up with something a bit more inventive though.
I’m amazed at the number of work arounds, all three valid and useful.
Shame that humax didn’t spend an extra penny (one pence) and put a tri-colour led in, whilst they were discussing ways to save money on a proper display or basic display such as they had in the previous FoxT2’s
I’d never have thought about spdif, although you’re not supposed to look into a fibre-optic cable though
Luke – 13 hours ago »
EEPhil – 26 minutes ago » It isn’t 100% reliable – you still need to be able to see the difference between dim red and not-so-dim red.
Out of curiosity I sometimes have a USB LED plugged in
The USB LED light stays off in standby if power saving is turned off and the HDR-2000T has been in standby for at least 40 minutes before the next recording’s scheduled start time.
Is it the same with the optical out?
I should have added that I normally have power saving ON.
From what I’ve seen the optical out behaves like your USB LED.
damian – 3 hours ago »
I’d never have thought about spdif, although you’re not supposed to look into a fibre-optic cable though
That could explain the trouble I’m having with my eyes!!!
Seriously, I would have thought the danger would be close up. But I suppose given the nature of the light it might be a problem from 2m away? Might have to look into some form of diffuser.
I know we are supposed to be in the era of saving money and most gadgets these days are classed as short lived consumables, which by the way I consider to be a huge waste of the earths resources.
However, I still fail to see why Humax could not come up with something very similar to my 1000s Freesat box.
That still has a display (of sorts) though you do need good eyes to spot that it is recording. Nevertheless it does still have a recording indicator.
Whether it is about saving money or satisfying content providers I do think generally the function of PVRs is not one of advancement.
It’s a shame they didn’t have a third LED colour for standby. On the HDR-FOX, standby is orange. Humax could fix this in the software though: they could make the display purple when recording by switching on both LEDs at the same time.
Purple is used when updating software.
Flashing to indicate downloading/programming, steady when complete.
Barry – 3 hours ago »
Purple is used when updating software.
Flashing to indicate downloading/programming, steady when complete.
Well given updates are as rare as hens teeth I would much prefer it if Humax used the purple both for record and updates.
This would be a huge improvement on dull red means off or slightly brighter dull red means recording. 😯
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