Hi All

I have just bought a DVR 1000 at a discount on Ebay and am beginning to realise why it was discounted. I received it today and it installed without a hitch.

So this is my “first impressions”

We have had a Humax PVR 9150 for a few years now and have been delighted with its ease of use and functionality. So we naturally opted for a second Humax thinking things would have moved forward over the years.The DVR 1000 T doe’s exactly what it says on the tin.

The problem is what it doe’s NOT say on the tin. There is no WiFi which is well noted on this and other forums, they have also dropped the Favourites function which is a real bind, with that, also missing is the ability to move channels up and down the channel list.

The old Humax ran four or five Favourite lists and allowed the channels to be sorted in any order so we were able to get BBC1,BBC2,BBC3 etc etc. Which made it easy to navigate especially for older members of the family.

We valued these functions and consider the product which costs over twice the price of the older unit to be a retrograde step, if I had researched it more thoroughly I would not have bought it because of these shortcomings and it is a great disappointment.

Having said all that that the modem link is great.

In my view the product is a backward step from the earlier units, I may be tempted to sell it probably at a loss. I would then wait until somebody gets it right or the next Humax provides these much needed services, I think the company have done their selves a disservice.

Any experts out there know if any chance of an upgrade to bring this flawed product up to scratch?

Sorry for the gripe but it really is a pity and you did ask for opinions.

Hi Chaser – welcome to the forum. You may be interested in the faq questions about the Youview box formulated from the launch box and contains details of the major changes since.

http://myhumax.org/forum/topic/salient-points-from-faqs

Hi All

Thanks for the replies to my rant.(which I now realise has been oft repeated)

Martin you are bang on about buying a HDR Fox T2. I got the same advise on the AV forum. If I had joined and read the comments on this and other forums I would not have made the error, it would have saved me a lot of money as well.

Thanks for the link Graham it’s a good read with a lot of common sense, I just read it a week too late.

In view of the many, many comments about the lack of facilities on this product is there any chance that this will be heard and acted upon by Humax? Or are they too big to bother?

Anybody have any opinions, guesses or inside knowledge?

A nice simple on line upgrade would be BRILL.

Thanks again

That said there are some shortcomings (actual and perceived) for which Youview have to rely on Humax to do something about.

As evidence just look over on the Youview forums where Youview representatives have stated this on various occasions.