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    Quote Originally Posted by toyboy11 View Post
    Well 2 things would they know if a seal has been broken and the other is your receipt.
    Mate, there is no broken seal. They would just get back a PVR ready model, and a receipt saying that it's a PVR Ready model. For those who don't have a PVR Ready model, there is a removable blank face plate that clips-in and clips-out to slide a caddy-mounted hard drive in (or any other type of clandestine mount you can self manufacture). You don't break anything when doing it, there's no 'warranty void if seal broken' sticker between the plate and the facia or anything. It's as easy as putting on a pair of shoes.
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    kabammi is correct.

    It's just like inserting a CAM in a CAM slot.

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    Scitech in WA have the new cradle for the humax box for $15.00.i believe they have stacks of them.HDD Cradle suitable for Humax HDR-1003S. SCITECH are a accredited HUMAX dealer
    So how do I get one of these cradles online? (I'm in Qld).
    I have done a search, can't find anything at this stage.

    Can you supply a link or other info please.
    Thanks in advance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 737 View Post
    So how do I get one of these cradles online? (I'm in Qld).
    I have done a search, can't find anything at this stage.

    Can you supply a link or other info please.
    Thanks in advance.
    Here's a link for the $15 cradle:

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    Quote Originally Posted by 737 View Post
    So how do I get one of these cradles online? (I'm in Qld).
    I have done a search, can't find anything at this stage.

    Can you supply a link or other info please.
    Thanks in advance.
    Check this out ......




    edit: transit beat me to it .....
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    I took delivery of one of these Humax receivers and first impressions are why would anyone now buy a UEC or any other brand. They look good, have more features, nice remote, add a hard drive and you have a dual tuner PVR!

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    had mine for about a month now and i could not agree more with your comments.

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    I had a play with the HDD last night.
    I didn't have any luck using ext2ifs to read the UDD on my Win8 box, but was able to read the drive. It is formatted Ext2/3, and is present in 3 partitions, a 1Gb first partition and a 10Gb third partition with the remaining diskspace occupied by the second partition. This was on a 750Gb HDD though.
    The directory structure is split into mainly media categories such as videos/ radio/ music/ pictures/ and the like.
    The recorded streams appear to be set up in a similar (or perhaps the same) format as other humax devices. There is a filename with extension .ts for the transport stream, followed by an .hre, .elu & .epg. These appear to be legacy file formats from previous Humax PVR models.

    In my brief encounter with reading the .TS streams, it appears to me that they are indeed encrypted. I tried with latest VLC twoflower, and it didn't play -- however -- I'm not sure how it did it, but VLC pulled up the correct playtime for the .TS in its playlist. Perhaps VLC is just guessing from filesize (however unless it has some info about the codec and compression, I don't possibly know how that could ever be accurate -- and if it's getting the info on codec and compression, then some of the ts is unencrypted). However, at the end of the day VLC wouldn't play it and ffprobe () wouldn't tell me any codec, stream, program or other information about it.

    I haven't played around with DLNA streaming - I haven't looked to see if the Humax 1003s itself has a DLNA server (as some other Humax Sat receivers in the UK do). If it does, it might be possible to record a stream from the 1003s via VLC if somebody wanted to for some reason. Apparently this can be done with Humax FoxHD2 satellite receivers in the UK.

    Someone else has apparently and managed to get decrypted video that way. He downloads an .hmt file (hmm maybe that was there on the 1003s, but I don't recall right now) and uses Foxy on a PC to remove an encryption flag, then copies the .hmt back, and finally uses the FoxSatHD2 to then copy the video to a USB device (which reads the .hmt along the way and removes encryption during file copy). That uses both an FTP server on the FoxSatHD2 (unknown if available on 1003s, although ncftp is listed in the manual under the GPL declarations for the 1003s), and also relies on a USB-copy feature. I don't know if this is at all possible (I haven't looked or tried). So that might be a very long shot.

    Anyway, there's some preliminary investigations.. I'll poke around more some time soon. Now that I have one of these, I want to know how it works.
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    Baffled with science

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    Quote Originally Posted by toyboy11 View Post
    Baffled with science
    Let me know what's got you confused about Science. I have a Ph.D. in a science field, so I'll have a go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by toyboy11 View Post
    Baffled with science
    That's not science, it's simple video hacking. lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by kabammi View Post
    Let me know what's got you confused about Science. I have a Ph.D. in a science field, so I'll have a go.
    Well I'm not that smart, this is just a hobby for me.

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    I took delivery of one of these Humax receivers and first impressions are why would anyone now buy a UEC or any other brand. They look good, have more features, nice remote, add a hard drive and you have a dual tuner PVR!

    Leroy

    Have to agree, whilst there are a few software glitches - in most respects it is excellent.

    I am very happy with the Humax box in most respects, and very glad I chose this in preference to the competitors.



    The only real negatives are the FF, (which does not stop where you think you've stopped- which should hopefully be fixed with a future firmware update) and the standby consumption (17w) which is basically almost the same as when turned "on".
    I mostly run mine on a time clock which turns on only in the evening, to save power, which is usually when I wish to record programs. (The recording schedule is NOT lost with a full power off by time clock or wall switch.)
    In any event most of these negatives are forced on them by the Freeview specs.


    PS Thanks Transit and OSIRUS for the HDD cradle link.
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    no problems, 737 anytime.

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    Humax Vast Caddy with Seagate 500GB Hard Drive $77 plus postage

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    Quote Originally Posted by OSIRUS View Post
    Humax Vast Caddy with Seagate 500GB Hard Drive $77 plus postage

    I'm sure that that hdd will work for a while [maybe a long while?] but note that is not a streaming media drive. Amongst other things it has only half the cache as the streaming media drives.

    Cheap enough though -- I'd buy it if needed.

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    Stupid question



    Do they come with a card ??


    I can't see it in the description

    Flame away LOL
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    Quote Originally Posted by best4less View Post
    Do they come with a card ??
    They should.

    All VAST decoders are supplied with a 'paired' smartcard.

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