Recent content by MarkV

Apart from this one-off problem with 'scrambled' channels, the box has worked flawlessly for years, as did it's 2 Humax predecessors. So I don't think there a problem with excessive signal strength. Will report SS and SQ but I won't be near the unit again until next week.

Great suggestions - thanks. After mains power disconect for a while, the box restarted and we found the tuning options had reappeared (so quickly retuned). I suspect the power cycle may have actually fixed the scrambled/unavailable problem, making the retune unnecessary, but didn't want to wait...

That would seem a logical conclusion. Although... We do have line-of-sight to the huge Crystal Palace transmitter, 2-3 miles away, and see Signal strength 100%

Perfect - thank you so much. I hoped that would be the case, but in light of the wording in the manual, didn't dare risk it before.

Thanks for your reply. We have the 5000T, and the latest firmware. The tuning options have been greyed-out every time I've checked; certainly on times when no rscheduled ecording was anywhere close - strange. I did wonder about disconnecting the HDD before risking a reset, but wasn't sure how...

I can't believe it would, but the manual is quite clear: "WARNING: This will delete any preferences, recordings and settings which can not be undone." I would expect to lose recording /schedules/, but "recordings" seems clear enough. ...hence haven't risked even selecting the option. We seeing...