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I have just brought the FVP 5000T, whilst watching a recording how do you get the programme synopsis.
If you press the ok button it just gives you the title but doesn’t tell you what the programme is about.
The only way I can check is to press stop and go back to the maIn recording menu
On my old HDR 2000 T all you had to do was press I button and it told you all about what you were watching.
Does anyone have any ideas on this,????
Hi on my 5000t. The synopsis comes up every time you select your recording you want to watch when you press ok.
It’s on the right hand side of the screen that gives you the options.
I’ve found that if you want to see the synopsis when your part way through.
just stop, then arrow back, witch should take you back to the options screen. with it on.
then just select the option to play from your previous place on your
recording.
or if you want you can even Delete it if you want.
Why press a simple button once when you can press several….. welcome to the world of the 4000/5000 🙄
I love most of the new features on the 5000T especially the fact you can record up to four programmes at once, and the design of the box looks slick, but i cannot understand why they would remove some of the old features that worked, in my earlier thread i mentioned about the info button on the 2000T one press and it gives you all the information you need,so i have to agree with John 1,
on the 5000T it now takes three clicks to find out the same info,
I have now decided to keep my 2000T and use it as a second box purely because it works great.
come on Humax sort it out before someone takes your crown.
Hi Russel,
oddly the button I most miss is the button on the bottom right of the Hummy Youview RCs which is the delete button. So when you work down the list of recordings i miss just hitting one button to delete. I also miss the info button. You seem to have to make much more of a dommitment to the programme to simply see the info.You basically have to enter the record menu cycle just to get some basic programme info and then seek permsission to exit.
Some of the functions of the 5000t are really great. I’m not sure anyone else mentioned it, but the sound quality is good. The alternative reording o-tions when there are clashes or recorder overload are great. Freeview Explore/Play is really good,.
hi UK1
I,m glad i,m not the only one, once they sort out the few gremlins the 5000T has its gonna be a great little machine.
i am loving this forum, it gets very fruity at times.
it just goes to show how passionate we are about our Humax,s
I wonder if they will issue an in depth manual for the 5000T as the one that comes with it does,nt really do it justice.
I think Humax should stop taking bits out and improve on what they have. 💡
Russel,
I totally agree, with one small caveat and that is it is better if people post clinically and accurately what they experience instead of what sometimes seems like a desire to inaccurately talk up it’s function and speed and talk down others accurate recording of their excperiences to a point where you start to question accuracy of reporting. It isn’t helpful if you start to doubt and think the box is capapble of doing things and being faster when it may not be and you may therefore not have an intrinsically faulty box but instead a box like pretty much everyone else. I don’t know about you, but (for example) if I go into many of the menus and built in apps – in particular for example Freeview Play which I think is really great and I’m going to disciplain myself to go to, but I simlky find it difficult to believe that anyone else with a 4000 or 5000 has a machine that opens and populates programmes in Freeview Play in “one or two seconds”. If it’s six or seven or ten or twelve, say so, it doesn’t make it a bad box.
We all watch different stuff and most of what I record on terrestial is thankfully 101 to 106 with a bit of Travel and Food thrown in. So a four channel 2tb machine on paper is a dream machine as a Sky avoider.
I wish I wasn’t a numpty and could simply decide whether to live with and tolerate it’s nasty little habits and try to tell it who is boss or give up. To be fair it isn’t expensive for what it does and it does have a bit of an obstinate personality. Just like me.
Hi Russell,
I think you’ll find that most people on here give an accurate account of their own experiences, in their own environment.
Just because some of us are experiencing some problems that some others don’t it’s a shame they can’t seem to accept not everyone are necessarily
having the same problems as they are.
John, thanks – I think we all accept that and hopefully you can understand that what one person or several people finds an irritant can be posted without sanction by others in what seems a rather aggressive and disrespectful way. That is I think all that was being requested and nothing more – and that seems a good way for things to stay friendly and helpful.
All of us try to make sense of whether we have a faulty box or not and accurate reporting helps. When you have a moment could you just check how long it takes for your box to open up and populate “Freeview Play” as my one can take up to say twelve seconds or so.
Thanks.
Hi, I’m just going for my roast but if it’s any help,
On our box when we bring up the guide It is populated fully.
If it’s any help. before we got the 5000t We were using a Panasonic Freeview play machine. Now That one brought up the guide in the same way.
However, scrolling back into the play side it took for ever to populate it.
Now This may not be relevant, but the day before my 5000t arrived.
We had to do a retune as a message came up that our transmitter was
making some upgrades to the guide.
From that moment on the Freeview Play guide was populated from the go.
I don’t know if that was any Help for you, But I do Hope so.
John,
I’m not talking about populating the ordinary standard all programme guide as in “Guide”. Nor am I talking about simply opening the button Freeview Play. I’m just talking about the imedded Freeview Explore app which is then called Freeview Play when opened and has suggested programmes across all channels.
Perhaps other users can share whether when they open up > Freeview Play > FreeView Explore – is fully populated on opening with all of the suggested programmes across all the different channels as John says he is getting instantly on his.
I’m just puzzled as to how John has a box that appears capable of populating these programmes in advanced and as though waiting for it to be opened – or instantly on opening – as that seems completely different to my one.
Thanks.
uk1 – 3 minutes ago  »Â
John,
I’m not talking about populating the ordinary standard all programme guide as in “Guide”. Nor am I talking about simply opening the button Freeview Play. I’m just talking about the imedded Freeview Explore app which is then called Freeview Play when opened and has suggested programmes across all channels.
Perhaps other users can share whether when they open up > Freeview Play > FreeView Explore – is fully opulated on opening with all of the suggested programmes across all the different channels as John says he is getting instantly on his.
Thanks.
This depends on when you boot the box. The epg starts with no content after overnight housekeeping. It get’s populated on the first boot or presumably accurate recording and once populated stays populated (it’s buffered in NVRAM) and remains so until the next morning. Padding gives no time for the epg to populate as the box doesn’t have the 15 mins opportunity to refresh the epg that accurate recording gives you. A daily 15 mins power on/off timer at say 07:00 to 07:15 ensures you have a full epg.
I will boot my box tomorrow morning (it should have a full-epg as I don’t get up at 07:00
) and use a stopwatch to measure time to epg display. If the epg is starting from scratch it may take much longer depending on how long after the box is booted you press the FVP button as the box is busy getting the epg data. It’s like all computers different operations get a higher or lower priority in accessing the cpu. On a fully user programmed cpu like is used on a PC, the programmer is able to alter the priority by a system of interrupts.The Humax pvrs will obviously give priority to pvr operations like recording and playback and fit in say copying a recording to usb as and when they can steal cpu clock cycles to service A request like responding to the FVP play button. That’s why those who suggest using USB 3.0 don’t really understand how it all works. USB 3.0 would make no difference at all.
Basically you are likely to get the fastest response to the FVP button when the box is doing as little as possible. eg Not recording other than writing to the time shift buffer file.
You may all be right, without knowing what the box is actually doing is kind of key
Just booted up my box. So I’ll give it all just in case, so here goes’.
From power on press to screen up 6 seconds.
At that point the remote is frozen until the connected to network comes up.
This is 2 seconds later.(I’ve got it on Wi-Fi.) On pressing my Freeview play. button all is populated at that point.
I don’t know if this is any help .
john1 – 55 seconds ago  »Â
Just booted up my box. So I’ll give it all just in case, so here goes’.
From power on press to screen up 6 seconds.
At that point the remote is frozen until the connected to network comes up.
This is 2 seconds later.(I’ve got it on Wi-Fi.) On pressing my Freeview play. button all is populated at that point.
I don’t know if this is any help .
That’s a whole new variable, my box is hard wired, I don’t get a connected to network message as it must be much faster especially if you reserve a fixed address in the router address pool. And you now have how fast your WiFI router connection from your box location as well.
Pressing the FVP button doesn’t tell you all is populated. You may not have a full-epg at this point.
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