Humax PVR-8000T Review

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Humax PVR-8000T
3.5 stars
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PeterH9572's Review of Humax PVR-8000T Digital Video Recorder

24th Jul 2005

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    3.5 stars
  • Features
    4 stars
  • Time DVR Owned
    Less than a Week
  • Ease of Use
    4.5 stars
Good Points

Quick setup, large clear menus.


Bad Points

Misleading test on some menus, only one tuner.


General Comments

Just bought a Humax PVR-8000T for an 80year old whose video broke. Really easy to set up out of the box and good picture quality for freeview. Has all the expected features of freeview except top-up tv.

As a recorder, the unit is easy to set a recording on - once the 7 day EPG has loaded just point to it on the Guide and press OK. This is where the confusion arose - the unit makes a "Reservation" it was unclear if this was to record the program or just to watch it. Trial and error proved the former. What was an excellent feature was that it could record the subtitles too (the user was hard of hearing) in fact even when in "pause live TV" mode it also recorded subtitles.

Just one gripe here - if subtitles are on you can't use Interactive services, you must turn them off first.

The unit is generally easy to use and the menus are large and clear - good for the short sighted - even if some of the wording is confusing.

Other gripes - the Info button is too small on the remote and despite 6 or 7 codes for the TV in the guide, none of them would work to use the DTV remote on the TV.

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