“This is my 4th. Humax PVR (the three previous items are still going strong) and was bought for its enhanced features and its smaller size and works alongside one of the others in conjunction with a Panasonic smart TV and bluray home cinema set up.
In use it is excellent with really good picture quality and sound via the Panasonic set up.
My only quibble with it is the remote control and this is only because there is no information button which the previous PVR remote has.
It arrived direct from Humax as a refurbished item but it looks brand new with no evidence that it had been used before.
My only regret is that I didn't wait to buy it in the Black Friday promotion as I could have saved another £30. Such is life!
My only regret”
“Good unit. Bought to replace Sky Q and glad we did. Only niggles are clunky software and slow response compared with Sky box. Customer service is excellent. No hesitation in recommending either the company or their products.”
“I have several pieces of Humax kit, all work differently, but none are really difficult to manage! When my oldest machine "lost" all my old recordings, and even forgot it had a hard drive, I was about to chuck it, or just use it as a freeview box, but I decided to see if my local repairer had a compatible replacement drive. In fact, the repair was much simpler than that, and I got it back a few days later, with all the programmes restored, and the memory intact! Total cost of the repair, and a service, was £30! Well worth checking if the HD seems to have amnesia!”
“I've been a longtime Humax user having PVR-9200T which at 11 years old was starting to play up, so had been looking at FVP-4000T for a while, but concerned about negative reviews, but seemed better recently so refurb was a good price.
Setup and install was fine, and it does everything I need, no major problems so far. The interface is a bit laggy, taking a second or two to swap between screens but this is not a big deal, also the recordings layout with big icons is not as easy to use as the old text list with date/name, which I prefer, also programmes sometimes group into folder, sometimes don't and selecting between them (and scheduled recordings which show on same left tab) isn't as intuitive as it could be.
I didn't realise the refurb unit would be an old version, it only has blue/red LED so you cannot distinguish between off (red) and recording (red) (the latest version I understand has purple for recording to resolve this).
Also new version has a different remote control layout, with a recordings button which is a nice shortcut, I have to go home and then move across to recordings every time.
These are minor niggles, and price was great so I'm happy, also my PVR9200T lost all its recordings a few weeks after this arrived, so I timed it perfectly !”
“Poor user interface compared with other Humax products (e.g. 9200, 9300,) Some facilities (e.g. SMB networking) are inflexible and appear to require a re-configuration of all other devices on the network.
Nothing in the user instructions regarding use of the remote control when other Humax devices are also present - it took weeks of checking third-party websites to find out how to reconfigure the remotes !
The background picture when viewing the program guide is distracting - the ability to have a blank background or even better display the current program in the same way as the 9200/9300 would improve the user experience.”
“I "upgraded" to this box from a HDR-FOX-T2. On the whole, a good move.
But in some ways, the T2 had a much better UI.
Good -
- On-demand.
- At last! WiFi.
- Three tuners
- A control with positive buttons that works *all* the time
- iPlayer, Netflix etc
- surprisingly small.
Not so good.
- Missing: skip forward and backward, The FF/RW thing is less convenient.
- Missing: info button, You have to go into each item to check details.
- Missing: any obvious way to select multiple items to delete;
- Missing: folders! If I record films, I'd like to be able to group them into a "Films" folder, not have an item for each film.
- Don't especially like the big cartoony interface; it uses a lot of screen space per item.
- Not clear (unlike the bi-colour LEDs on the T2) whether the box is on or not. I liked the red=standby, bright red, recording, blue=on clarity of the T2. This is discreet to the point of shyness.”
