Michaelb121345 – 6 hours ago  » 

I have a PVR 9150T. On playback it frequently jumps over about 30 seconds of recording, If I rewind about 20 seconds I can play from there. Oddly it happens most often (but not always) when the programme switches from image to graphic content e.g. on Michael Portillo’s Great Railway Journeys (BBC2) when he shows the map with the moving line of his route. In some programmes it happens a lot, in others not at all. Any comments?

You have accurately stated the problem that Humax never fixed and are not likely to fix, the 9xx0 machines fell off their radar long ago. Yes if you can rewind to just after whatever caused the jump you can successfully play the bits you missed. As well as the things you mention my partner’s 9300 will annoyingly sometimes jump at the last few seconds of a programme, and sometimes it won’t. This problem was first noticed on the BBC3 programmes Family Guy and American Dad.

Many years ago a forum member noticed that if you switched soundtracks using the button under the slide with a loudspeaker and ? printed on then the jumping didn’t occur. I noticed that if you played the recording at anything other than normal speed (faster or slower) the jumping didn’t occur. This might suggest that the soundtrack was causing the problem but Humax never came up with a fix. When my partner gets totally fed up with it (she is very tolerant) we will fix the problem by buying a Panasonic.

EEPhil – 15 mins ago  » I think that was me. At the time I only had the jumping problem on BBC programmes. Other people mentioned it occurred elsewhere. More recently I noticed jumping on ITV. I have retired my 9150T and only use it to play some of the items still stored – and the games! More recent Humaxes don’t seem to have this problem but, as you can tell from this and other forums, there is plenty of debate about other problems.

Could well have been, I do remember it wasn’t me. I think it was on DS forum, not this one. : I use my 9200 in the same manner as you do your 9150. I like the 9xx0 user interface better than the Panasonic but the Panasonic is rock solid reliable at recording programmes which is all I want, and I guess most other people want to do.