Humax FVP-5000T 1TB Freeview Play HD TV Recorder - Black (Renewed)

Very good for the price thank jack

This is the second unit I have had over the years, had the first unit for around 6 years found the unit good, second unit I am not sure of.

Set up was very straightforward. Worked well. Freeview Play button very useful as a central menu. I liked the ability to plug in USB storage and download from it. Sadly I also found it to be very buggy. EG. When using the You Tube app, on loading the SEARCH window the keyboard very annoyingly disappears as you attempt to navigate it. Not good.

Excellent service from this company. I live in Spain and accidentally ordered the wrong product They phoned me and talked me through what I neededProduct arrived within a week and is now set up and working perfectly.Im a 70 year old technophobe and managed to set it up myself

Humax FVP-5000T 1TB Freeview Play HD TV Recorder would be really good if all the hype about it was true and it worked and you could actually get to use it!I could not get it to function properly at all,the remote to control it was completely dysfunctional and would not respond to anything you wanted,the software (or hardware) that runs the system is extremely sloooooooooooooooow and inadequate to handle what you need to do with the box, its truly unfit for purpose and very highly overrated by what hifi.com i feel they have had a pre-release magical prototype hybrid just for them to demo it and give it 5 stars! or more likely took a big fat backhander for the review they gave it, who knows but I wouldn't take there word on anything anymore.humax used to be a brand you could rely on but not any more though with this model,I sent it back the very next day after buying it.after much research Ive ended buying a Manhattan T3-R Freeview Play 4K Smart Recorder 1TB and believe me it is the best thing since sliced bread, its an all singing and dancing quad core processor that's almost faster than my car, lol!its British made and doesn't come with anything fancy cable wise, no Ethernet cable or Ariel link but every penny spent on this has gone into making it do what it says on the tin!

Now that I've had chance to get to grips with it I find the Humax to be very good. It records very well and the program guide is easy to follow and recording set up very easy.

so, this box, although feature wise is great, has a flaw. IF your signal is too strong. the picture will freeze every few seconds. this makes it unusable. luckily if you have a signal booster which we have, you can turn the signal down a notch and the picture freeze will be fixed. However, some channels are stronger than others and it takes quite a while to tweak the signal which on the weakest signals is sufficient to have a picture at all, whilst the strongest signals dont cause the picture to freeze. Aside from that this is a great box.

Fairly cheap and not many other competitors in this field which probably explains why they cant be bothered to get any of the advertised catch up apps to work reliably. A quick Google and look through the Humax forums will probably tell you all you need to know on the quality of this product.In summary OK for Freeview but if you think you will be able to use the catch up apps advertised as included then save yourself the disappointment and take it from me that they won't work and if they do they will be broken by some random update or other on a regular basis