Humax PVR-8000T Review

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Humax PVR-8000T
3.5 stars
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33rpm's Review of Humax PVR-8000T Digital Video Recorder

29th Jul 2005

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Features
    4.5 stars
  • Time DVR Owned
    1 - 6 Months
  • Ease of Use
    4.5 stars
Good Points

Good Freeview tuner, 80gb hard drive, good picture quality, easy to use, nicely designed.


Bad Points

Manual not the easiest to follow, single tuner.


General Comments

Although I live in a "non Freeview" area the Humax was able to find all of the available free-to-air channels with good signal strength and picture quality.
Tuning in was a breeze and this was achieved with no problems in a matter of minutes. I didn't find the manual the easiest to follow, but luckily the on-screen menus were pretty well laid out, and I found that I was able to record and reserve a programme for recording at a later date, within 30 minutes of playing around with the set.
Picture quality on our LCD TV appears to my eyes to be identical to the original broadcast, and although it dosen't have any compression facilities the 80gb (40 hours recording) should be more than enough for most people.
Other than the manual, what didn't I like? Well, it is true, it only has one tuner, but as this is a PVR for the bedroom, that is not really a concern. The "series repeat" function (daily/weekly) was a little tricky to find, but after a little surfing on the net, I was able to find this and enable it quite easily for those favourite series' such as Top Gear.
One last thing I had read, was that this unit was noisy, well I do find that for about 30 seconds after booting it up, you can hear the hard disc spinning away, but after that it is perfectly quiet.
We paid £132 including postage for this, and I feel, despite the single tuner limitation, that this represents very good value for money. We will certainly be looking at the new Humax 9200T twin tuner to replace the video/Freeview box combi we have downstairs when the time comes...

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