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Humax PVR-9300T user reviews

Humax PVR-9300T

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David's avatar
4 stars out of 5

David 12 December 2012

Good: Value for money, large hard drive, ease of use

Bad: Series link unreliable

Comment: POSITIVE:
No problems with noisy fan.
Great to be able to record two channels at the same time.
Clear TV guide with current programme in small window
Large HD

NEGATIVE:
Kept failing to record programmes on series link - maybe when broadcaster altered start time? Fixed problem by programming manually.
Trimming and editing recorded programmes is clumsy. Can split recordings but not combine, and trimming is tricky to get accurate

VERDICT
Negatives are only small niggles. I would recommend it and would buy again.

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billharris2012's avatar
2.5 stars out of 5

billharris2012 15 October 2012

Good: Good overall functionality

Bad: system fault

Comment: The rewind live TV facility is unstable and may break down anytime ( in my case after 16 months) due to a buffer problem. The only solution is to reset your hard drive and lose all recorded programmes.

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billharris2012's avatar
2.5 stars out of 5

billharris2012 15 October 2012

Good: Good overall functionality

Bad: basic system fault

Comment: The rewind live TV facility is unstable and may break down anytime ( in my case after 16 months) due to a buffer problem. The only solution is to reset your hard drive and lose all recorded programmes.

I own it
billharris2012's avatar
2.5 stars out of 5

billharris2012 15 October 2012

Good: Good overall functionality

Bad: basic system fault

Comment: The rewind live TV facility is unstable and may break down anytime ( in my case after 16 months) due to a buffer problem well known to the manufacturer. The only solution is to reset your hard drive and lose all recorded programmes.

I own it
billharris2012's avatar
2.5 stars out of 5

billharris2012 15 October 2012

Good: Good overall functionality

Bad: basic system fault

Comment: The rewind live TV facility is unstable and may break down anytime ( in my case after 16 months) due to a buffer problem well known to the manufacturer. The only solution is to reset your hard drive and lose all recorded programmes. The manufacturer considers this reasonable

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billharris2012's avatar
2.5 stars out of 5

billharris2012 15 October 2012

Good: Good oveerall functionality

Bad: basic system fault

Comment: The rewind live TV facility is unstable and may break down anytime ( in my case after 16 months) due to a buffer problem well known to the manufacturer. The only solution is to reset your hard drive and lose all recorded programmes. The manufacturer considers this reasonable!

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Ian Saxton's avatar
0.5 star out of 5

Ian Saxton 8 August 2012

Good: does lots of extra (mostly useless) things

Bad: program guide takes three hours to load

Comment: You cannot leave the machine on standby or switch it off without deleting the whole program guide which takes three hours (at least) to load and then at most it only loads about six days if lucky, not the eight quoted in the manual. Not much use if you are in a hurry and want to quickly record something a few days or even hours in advance. Compared to my last cheap PVR this is an absolute shocker.

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CwS's avatar
0.5 star out of 5

CwS 3 March 2010

Good: nothing

Bad: everything

Comment: Humax 9300t Faults

1. Fails to record at least 12 times, no conflict, no reason.**
a. Records the wrong length for programs by anything over an hour.
b. Misses start of programs.
c. Misses ends of progs.
2. EPG will NEVER EVER populate all channels.**
3. EPG is not always seven days long
4. If chain entered EPG will not remove expired chain, seems to block future recordings.
5. Wrongly flags programs as no chain.
6. Playback locks up, speeds up, jumps, and breaks up.
7. Commercial skip wrecks sound and vision synch**
8. Locks up no response to remote power switch last resort.
a. Locks up while recording, clock stops.
9. Favourites sometimes revert to TV
10. All favourites lost
11. All Schedule lost
12. Gets aspect ratio wrong**
13. Scart overrides all others even when tv powered up.**

Software updated

14. Ends of recording skip and break up
15. Records program with wrong description.
a. Records program with wrong description and does not stop recording
16. Records same program twice.
17. Wrong start time, length and info.
18. Records program that had already been recorded eighteen hours previously for the second time.

** Still present with sw update

tiggermiles's avatar
4 stars out of 5

tiggermiles 6 February 2009

Good: Picture quality, ease of use

Bad: nothing

Comment: Bought this machine on Wednesday after trying 3 other cheaper Freeview+ boxes and returning all 3. I had read that the fan was noisy and it was! However, having upgraded the firmware using the auto update facility the fan is now almost silent. Everything else about the machine is excellent. It does exactly what its supposed to do and does it brilliantly. I have no hesitation in recommending this product. The menu system is excellent and I had the machine up and running in less than 10 minutes and all without refering to the manual. I've already recorded loads including 2 programs at the same time. Watching recorded programs is the same quality at the original. And the picture-in-picture feature is a great bonus. The remote is easy to use with a good layout. Another tip, buy from John Lewis. At under £180 it's the cheapest on the market and you get free delivery and a 2 year warranty .... bargain.

cmhabc's avatar
3.5 stars out of 5

cmhabc 2 November 2008

Good: 70hrs or recording space, no more rewinding or frantically looking for space

Bad: Loud Fan, doesnt run like a video

Comment: I love this PVR. Whether you go away or are busy there is always enough space. You will no longer run around like a headless chicken looking for space, no rewinding or endlessly searching for your programme. There are so many things I love about this machine (far too many to mention).

However, I do find it difficult to comprehend why it is not possible to select several recorded programs to run continuously. My daughters favourite programme is Peppa Pig (on for only 5 mins). So if it takes you 30 mins to cook tea you will run in 6 times during this time to select another episode. AAAAAGH!

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