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Had an email from Humax today claiming ‘Best PVR for 2018’ Just Got Better!
Hoping this was finally the news that all the bugs were fixed I clicked on the link only to find I could have £30 off.
I don’t know if What-HiFi were given a special version of the 5000T to test which was a bit quicker and reliable? Some pre-release firmware?
Humax should read a few of the reviews on the sale site, some make very interesting reading. Humax 5000T Sale Site
I got the same email – I like you was expecting great things until I opened it, and I don’t even own a 5000T.
I too received this email, and was interested in what the improvements were !I bought a 4000T just before they launched the 5000T.
On the 2nd day the power failed, they sent a 2nd hand one as replacement, so I ended up getting my money back.
Then bought a 5000T at Curry’s despite re factory setting and of course the updates, it still at times re boots so all recordings at the time is lost and freezes up with the same result.
Mick.
mickiow – 5 minutes ago »
I too received this email, and was interested in what the improvements were !I bought a 4000T just before they launched the 5000T.
On the 2nd day the power failed, they sent a 2nd hand one as replacement, so I ended up getting my money back.
Then bought a 5000T at Curry’s despite re factory setting and of course the updates, it still at times re boots so all recordings at the time is lost and freezes up with the same result.
Mick.
It takes a while after a boot for the recordings list to populate. If you leave it for 2 or 3 minutes so far on my box they have always returned. Not had any issues with the box rebooting when on.
I don’t know if it’s my imagination, but these particular units i.e. 4000T/5000T appear to have quite a few issues. I base this simply on the amount of posts on this forum reporting faults.
Yes Faust it does seem as if they do have a fair few issues but then I guess on a forum like this we’re all more likely to be looking for help with problems, than saying how amazing the kit is
I’ve had issues with mine but then equally there are good features and qualities to it also.
I find generally with everything new lately there seems to be something a bit iffy with it, seems like the modern way, I sound much older than my 33 years there don’t I?!
I bought my 5000 based on reviews and my old 9150 thinking it was going to be an excellent product, but I’ve been left wondering how the reviews
seem to have completely left out the glaring short-comings, you’d think with all of Humax’s experience the software would be well written, this feels like someones first attempt.
jaeger – 14 minutes ago » …you’d think with all of Humax’s experience the software would be well written, this feels like someones first attempt.
It may well be. The Freesat/Humax s/w for the 1000S was contracted out to a 3rd party by Freesat and took around 2 years to bed down and be stable. Although still a long way from perfect. The Freesat s/w was offered to the Digital TV Consortium for use in the FVP boxes, such as the 5000T, and was rejected in favour of again contracting out. Result is another mish-mash that appears to be worse than the past s/w releases. Given that Humax got into bed with this business model seems to have written their suicide note as a business.
Well said Pollensa. I once asked a techie chap to assist with some surround sound equipment set-up and when I told him I had a Humax 9300T he suggested that I had the “bees knees”. I fear that is the case no longer. My 4KT is OK but not as stable or easy to drive as the 9300T was. I miss the clock on the front. R-
jaeger – 1 hour ago »
I bought my 5000 based on reviews and my old 9150.
I had a 9300t, which I believe was very similar to the 9150. I loved it and assumed there would be a similar one (but more modern) now but there didn’t seem to be apart from the 2000t which had so many bad reviews I avoided it.
Christina2018 – 1 day ago »
jaeger – 1 hour ago »
I bought my 5000 based on reviews and my old 9150.
I had a 9300t, which I believe was very similar to the 9150. I loved it and assumed there would be a similar one (but more modern) now but there didn’t seem to be apart from the 2000t which had so many bad reviews I avoided it.
I have a 2000T in retirement. Definitely a product built by bean counters. My opinion, Humax’s dirty little secret.
Faust – 22 hours ago »
Christina2018 – 1 day ago »
jaeger – 1 hour ago »
I bought my 5000 based on reviews and my old 9150.
I had a 9300t, which I believe was very similar to the 9150. I loved it and assumed there would be a similar one (but more modern) now but there didn’t seem to be apart from the 2000t which had so many bad reviews I avoided it.
I have a 2000T in retirement. Definitely a product built by bean counters. My opinion, Humax’s dirty little secret.
I kept reading everyone was having problems with the sound- was that the same with you?
Christina2018 – 39 minutes ago »
I kept reading everyone was having problems with the sound- was that the same with you?
We used to have occasional problems with the sound but otherwise works OK for my partners requirements; the sound problem was fixed by the latest software update.
Christina2018 – 4 hours ago »
Faust – 22 hours ago »
Christina2018 – 1 day ago »
jaeger – 1 hour ago »
I bought my 5000 based on reviews and my old 9150.
I had a 9300t, which I believe was very similar to the 9150. I loved it and assumed there would be a similar one (but more modern) now but there didn’t seem to be apart from the 2000t which had so many bad reviews I avoided it.
I have a 2000T in retirement. Definitely a product built by bean counters. My opinion, Humax’s dirty little secret.
I kept reading everyone was having problems with the sound- was that the same with you?
I had a problem both with sound and picture when I first purchased it. Mine definitely didn’t like being connected via a HDMI hub. It also didn’t like its HDMI lead near any other cabling.
I tried connecting the HDMI lead directly to the TVs HDMI port and tidied up the cabling and this cured many of the issues with mine.
However, I believe the real permanent cure for our 2000T was to use a passive splitter rather than relying on the units pass-thru facility which has always been a bit iffy. The pass-thru was a firmware solution post production as Humax didn’t engineer one into the original units – more cost cutting.
I have had my 5000T for two days and to be honest I am not impressed. This replaced a 1800T but I feel that aspects of the 5000T are a backward step.
On the plus side it is compact and has three tuners.
But against that, the HDD is noisy, not massively so but in the bedroom at night it is noticeable and I have tinnitus.
Who decided that channel icons in the EPG was the way to go?
Changing channels is oh so slow, almost as though the box is thinking about what it needs to do. I delayed buying this box because I had seen complaints about this issue ages ago but I thought Humax would resolve it. But I should have remembered how long it took for Humax to issue a fix for the 1800T and the 2000T losing sound, an issue they had known about for a couple of years before finally resolving it.
I find the font used in the menus is not crisp and sharp.
So on the noisy HDD alone it is going back and I don’t think I want a replacement.
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