It’s not easy to describe the sound of the buttons on rockers, but think of something like a dog training clicker.įor a weighty remote button, presses feel hollow, with the clicks echoing / reverberating inside the remote. However, cheapness rears its head when you come to press certain buttons.
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Plus points include that the remote feels nicely weighted, SOME buttons have a nice feel to them and the remote has a logical layout.
This remote control is a sign that perhaps development costs were slashed or they were simply looking for a way to save money on the project. A Playstation 3 on idle is 1w, an Xbox 360 is 2w, and as soon as I have stats from Humax’s other offerings, I’ll have this post updated. Power consumption in standby: Less than 1 WattĮco Mode High – with RF Loop thru enabled:ġ6 watts could be seen as quite high. You’ll find only two eco modes on the box at the time of writing: high and low. With the unit in power-saving mode, it’ll still record programs silently with only the orange glowing ring letting you know there’s still power going to it. Interestingly in the settings menu, there’s no medium option-just low or high. Starting up from cold comes in 2 minutes and 14 seconds with eco settings set to the default of high. Thankfully on my unit, there’s no complaining about noise levels.
Other reviews have mentioned that the small fan can make quite a bit of noise. That orange VFD display does scroll show information all the time, and there’s no way of disabling the scroll in any of the system preferences. Thankfully it’s not bright enough be piercing like the Apple TV. Looks-wise, it’s ok-not overly bad-looking, with the only main detractor being a retro-style VDF or vacuum style display (thanks Ezra) in orange. The actual housing on the YouView box is covered with a special type of fingermark-attracting finish, but a device like this is hardly going to be something you touch often. You do pay a small £40 premium to get this with your YouView box, but I suppose it would remove any dodgy signal issues in a building.Ĭonnection-wise, on the back we have HDMI, Scart, RGB, RJ45, SpDif, RF and a USB port, so like most Freeview boxes of this ilk, you’re covered for connections. Wireless connectivity isn’t included, but what you do get is an option for two power line Ethernet cables, so you can connect to the Internet via power outlets in the house.
High-definition Freeview, red button services and 500GB of storage are provided, which nets you roughly 300 hours of standard definition or 125 hours of high-definition content (HDMI cable is provided). What we have here is a twin DVB tuner (Freeview) PVR recorder, supporting HD and streaming on demand playback from our UK main broadcasters. The long journey has been brilliantly chronicled over at Wikipedia and it’s well worth a read if you want to know how YouView has progressed from conception to reality. It’s been a hell of a ride for YouView to come to a stage where it’s finally been released and become available for sale on the shelves of most electronic retailers. This is a long one, so you’ll want to grab a beverage before reading. For the last few months, I’ve been part of the YouView Humax DTR-T1000 beta testing so unlike other reviews, this is an actual, proper hands-on review, complete with videos and images you simply won’t find on those other review sites that just rewrite press releases.
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