I understand all that you say Graham, but I bought a Humax box and it came with miminal documentation. There is no explanation regarding the icons on the display, when they should be on, what they mean. In fact the support offered is definately sub standard.

Thank god for this forum.

My box will now only record if it is left switched on, it fails to record if left on standby regardless of programme selected. It has worked fine until a couple of weeks ago. But where is a manual to explain what all the parts are – that is a manefacturers job.

Thanks graham. I’ll check it out when I get home although I didn’t think the brochure I got with the box had that many pages !

I tried just now to download a manual from the Humax website and a manual for the HDR-1000S must be hiding under some obscure variation of HDR-1000S since I’ll be …… if I can see it.

Thanks for that Barry – yep thats the one I got with the box. But a simpleton like me might just possibly wonder, in a moment of idle speculation, why I couldn’t find it on the Humax site or even a link. The failure just seems so unprofessional, but what do I know.

But my complaint was not about the onscreen (TV) icons, but the little lights(icons) on the Humax box itself which I look at in puzzlement when it goes wrong (correction – does not do what I expect.)