Humax 9200T update
Posted by Chris @ 1:16 pm
As you'll know for my birthday Dawn bought me the Humax 9200T, which I reviewed.
Anyway, since then there have been a couple of OTA (over the air) updates, and the latest one has added a couple of new features I thought I'd share here, just in case you were deciding on buying one ;o)
Firstly, chase play. This means that whilst you are recording a programme, you can start to watch it before its finished recording. This is handy; for example say you're out and you've set the PVR to record a programme that starts at 10 and finishes at 11. If you get in at 10.15, you can start to watch recording before the programme has finished. Meaning you can get to bed by 11.15, instead of watching it at 11 when the recording will have finished.
Secondly you can now pad your recording with an additional 1, 2, 3, etc minutes at the start and end. Again this is handy, as the tv channels don't always stick to the exact start and end times they provide in the EPG, and missing the climax of Lost every week could be annoying. So if you felt this was missing and it affected your decision, worry no more!
Hope these two further features make the Humax more attractive to you if you are thinking about buying one, the real beauty of it is these over the air updates, fully automated, which means your box is always updated with cool new features!
8 Comments
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 6:55:00 pm
Hello Tony you have had the pvr now about 6 month ,are you still as happy with it ?,reason for question is I cannot decide between that or the TVONIC 150 And as I am on pension I want to get it right. Thank you,BobThis comment posted by Anonymous
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:50:00 pm
Hi Robert,Firstly, I'm Chris, not Tony, although I do link to him a bit!
Secondly I'm very happy with my PVR, I've had it for a year now and it has been very good. That said I don't know anything about the Tvonic 150 so I'm not sure how the two compare. Hope that helps!
This comment posted by Chris
Friday, December 29, 2006 7:53:00 pm
Hi ChrisJust read your review, and your updates. I've ordered this amazing-sounding machine today, but did so on the assumption "chase play" wasn't available. So I was surprised and delighted to read your update...can you confirm whether you can record two things at once *and* watch one of them while it is still recording? (ala Sky+)
Many thanks
This comment posted by Anonymous
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 8:44:00 pm
Hi Will,Sorry it has taken me a few days to reply, not been about for obvious reasons!
Anyway, I can confirm you can record two programmes, and then chase play one of the recordings at the same time (I've just tried it.) If that is the same way as Sky+ works then yes it is ala Sky+, but I've never tried Sky+ to know!
Hope that helps!
This comment posted by Chris
Monday, June 25, 2007 12:58:00 pm
Hi Chris.I have the humax 920t, & also think it's brill. Although, I've never had the ability to record tv programs in 17 years of home/tv ownership before now! (i just never bothered to plug the tv cable into the vcr)
I do have a techy question, that you may have found the answer to...
Can you record the scart input (e.g. VCR/Sky)? I ask, because I rather wanted to play my wedding video (vcr) into the recorder, & output to computer - & then onto DVD.
It'd be great if you can answer this?
Thanks.
Andy
This comment posted by Unknown
Monday, June 25, 2007 1:34:00 pm
I'm afraid I'm not aware of it being able to do that, I think most would say get a video capture card for your PC and capture it that way. From what I understand getting recorded programmes from the Humax onto a PC can be tricky due to the different formats and things. However there is a good website for all things Humax at www.hummy.org.uk which might be able to give you more help than I can.Thanks, Chris
This comment posted by Chris
Monday, June 25, 2007 2:40:00 pm
Wow. Quick response. Thanks.I looked on the site you mentioned, & found that you can't record from any source other than the tuners inside.
I guess I could try feeding the VCR into the freeview's TV-in, & then getting the box to tune in.
Thx again.
Andy
This comment posted by Unknown
Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:58:00 am
I have a Humax 9200t which is great but I cannot play my jpg photos from a memory stick which I have plugged into the USB port on the Humax, any help pleaseThis comment posted by Unknown
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