The Humax single tuner model always worked well, as did the 9200T but from then on, eighteen months seems to be the life of them before they become erratic and start to drop recordings seemingly at random. Additionally, a “Go To” button lets you jump to an exact point in the recorded content – very useful if you’re looking for something specific. Remote control learned to switch the TV on and off, and usefully includes its own mute and volume controls. Skipping forward (or back) is surprisingly smooth, and playback will stutter for less than a second. Fixed an issue that could cause intermittent video freezing/stuttering with high-bitrate HD recordings.

It switches on quickly and the EPG comes on immediately, you can still see and hear the channel you're on whilst looking at the EPG and the remote is dead easy to use. g. 'HD Channels' and then 'BBC One HD'), as long as the channel being viewed is on that list when you re-enter the TV Guide, the list will continue to be selected. While it’s not really a cheap Freeview box, it’s still cheaper than some of the competing boxes, without passing on important functionality. On Interactive Services without audio/video, pressing Fast Forward/Rewind/Skip Forward/Skip Backward would exit the interactive service. The epg has to be cached, to download a new epg from the freesat home transponder takes about 30 seconds or so and depends on a free tuner being available to connect to the home transponder.

From what I have learned, it is something to do with the signal strength (either too strong or too weak, I'm not to sure) of any particular channel. Then on a different recording, there will be intermittent freezing of the picture (the sound is usually unaffected). There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

The remote is laid out clearly with reasonably sized buttons that have a reassuring feel to them when pressed. After discussion with Arqiva (who manage the UK’s broadcast infrastructure), we implemented improved behaviour on our latest T3-R model.Manhattan menus can now be used when using interactive services with video, like 211 Ketchup TV and 265 Planet Knowledge.