With 3 x HS tuners you can record up to 4* programmes at once and watch a 5th live channel!
This new Freeview Play Recorder, FVP-4000T 500GB with built in WiFi and 3 x HD tuners allow customers to view over 60+ channels of free TV, plus connect wirelessly to their home networks and enjoy the best in catch-up TV, additional apps, on demand VOD services.
Top comments
OrribleHarry
8 Oct 1523#7
Good luck finding 4 programs worth recording at once on freeview.
gbmcginty
9 Oct 155#31
Christ some of you lot are bores. Who cares about your viewing habits? Is this just a competition to see who can fill up comment threads with the most irrelevant bullpoop?
anonymoose1
8 Oct 153#11
The hardware in these devices is slower than you think, slow CPU, slow RAM and not much off it, the slowest drives still available (designed for 24/7 on while streaming rather than random access). Capturing a single full mux would fill 500Gb in less than 2 days - just over 1 for HD muxes, so that's not an option if you actually want channels from more than 1 mux (you do). Even using the tuner PID filters you still need enough CPU power to sort out the mess they decode. You don't want those streams interleaved either so the drive will be seeking like crazy or fragmenting the drive if you try.
And they have to leave plenty of unused margin to cope with the worst case.
For reference: my PC with 3 tuners, 32Gb RAM, fast drives and a 3.3Ghz hex core started to struggle above 10 simultaneous SD recordings, started dropping channels at 14. They're doing pretty good getting 4 out of low end hardware. Especially if they're HD streams.
Newbold to anlygi
9 Oct 153#27
You've obviously not discovered BBC4, BBC2, or even BBC1 and BBC3. There are huge numbers of excellent programmes just on the BBC channels - let alone Channel 4, Film 4, E4 and all the other Freeview channels. No need for Sky in this house!
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andy4diehard
8 Oct 15#1
LOUGHBORO GUY
8 Oct 15#2
I've had 2 Humax boxes for over 6 years no trouble at all very well made product
morrig
8 Oct 151#3
Had a Fox pvr for 5 years , about the best device I've bought.Pity these latest models don't have a proper display, a retrograde step.Three tuners is one good improvement but surprised not 1Gb's drive as standard by now.
Didn't realize this just out this week,thats new that is.
belsibub
8 Oct 151#4
3 hd tuners & only a 500gb hard drive seems a bit undergunned.
AndyRoyd to belsibub
8 Oct 15#6
500GB is acceptable, unless the user has a tendancy to retain recorcings rather than watch-then-delete. I am more disappointed with three tuners being configured to only record upto 4 channels - would have thought by now the hardware should be capable of simultaneously recording all channels on the same mux, in this case: x3
PGJ80 to belsibub
9 Oct 15#24
500gb is what you get in the majority of Sky HD boxes. Dont see the issue
wdh to belsibub
9 Oct 15#40
Rear panel photo shows a single usb port (above the ethernet socket). Doesn't seem to have any front or side ports.
Tech Spec on Humax site says "usb x2". I wonder if someone misunderstood USB2 ?
I'd hope that might be a route to dealing with any concerns about limited storage. If so, strange that it isn't trumpeted ...
andy4diehard
8 Oct 15#5
£229.99 for the 1TB model (Coming Soon)
OrribleHarry
8 Oct 1523#7
Good luck finding 4 programs worth recording at once on freeview.
trevordavies0629 to OrribleHarry
8 Oct 15#8
If do shifts, say, and you can't watch any TV in the evening, even 3 clashes across the 5 main channels is easy enough, so 4 across the board is easily done.
Stompa to OrribleHarry
8 Oct 15#17
I don't think I've ever found two programmes worth recording at once!
brookysm to OrribleHarry
9 Oct 15#37
As opposed to only 2 being able to record on Sky which looking at my planner over 80% are from channels available on Freeview...
trevordavies0629
8 Oct 15#9
It's probably not the hardware limitation - if you can pick out one you can pick out all TSs, there's no transcoding, it's direct broadcast stream to hard disk..
the shortfall would be the software - dealing with timer clashes becomes much more complicated.
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With 3 x HS tuners you can record up to 4* programmes at once and watch a 5th live channel!
This new Freeview Play Recorder, FVP-4000T 500GB with built in WiFi and 3 x HD tuners allow customers to view over 60+ channels of free TV, plus connect wirelessly to their home networks and enjoy the best in catch-up TV, additional apps, on demand VOD services.
Top comments
And they have to leave plenty of unused margin to cope with the worst case.
For reference: my PC with 3 tuners, 32Gb RAM, fast drives and a 3.3Ghz hex core started to struggle above 10 simultaneous SD recordings, started dropping channels at 14. They're doing pretty good getting 4 out of low end hardware. Especially if they're HD streams.
All comments (66)
Didn't realize this just out this week,thats new that is.
Tech Spec on Humax site says "usb x2". I wonder if someone misunderstood USB2 ?
I'd hope that might be a route to dealing with any concerns about limited storage. If so, strange that it isn't trumpeted ...
the shortfall would be the software - dealing with timer clashes becomes much more complicated.
http://www.promise.tv/products/lite.html