Humax Freeview 160GB Twin Tuner

[DJEPSON]

Are these boxes as bad as the reviews on Amazon make out, my parents want one for Christmas, but alot of the reviews say they freeze quite often needing a reboot and because of the freezing miss program recording. My parents are overly technical so want something easy for them to operate

Thanks

Damian

 

[John Duncan]

I have the 9200 which has been more or less trouble-free...

 

[johnnyblue]

Same here. They do freeze occasionally, usually when you're trying to do too much too quickly ie: record 2 channels and delete a recording all at the same time. This usually only happens when the hdd gets below 20% free space.Otherwise it very very rarely freezes, although when the hdd is below 10% it forgets to record stuff, which is very annoying.Even so it still freezes a lot less than other pvrs and it is otherwise fantastic, with a brilliant picture that's far better than any other freeview tuner I've seen.My in-laws have had 2 other pvrs and both have been way more trouble than our Humax and the picture's been dire by comparison.Personally I wouldn't buy any other make.

 

[DJEPSON]

Would it be better to stump up the bit extra and get the 320GB and are they easy to install, I wont be there to help my folks set it up ?

 

[John Duncan]

Well 160gig has been plenty for me - it only fills up when I forget to delete films I recorded a year ago. YMMV.

And yes, it's trivial to set up - aerial, SCART, switch on - think it autotunes on startup.