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.
Last edited by kabammi; 01-08-13 at 10:52 AM.
kabammi is correct.
It's just like inserting a CAM in a CAM slot.
kabammi (01-08-13)
So how do I get one of these cradles online? (I'm in Qld).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
I have done a search, can't find anything at this stage.
Can you supply a link or other info please.
Thanks in advance.
737 (07-08-13)
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
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had mine for about a month now and i could not agree more with your comments.
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.
Last edited by kabammi; 02-08-13 at 12:29 PM.
Baffled with science
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.
Last edited by 737; 07-08-13 at 03:24 PM.
no problems, 737 anytime.
Tiny (09-08-13)
Humax Vast Caddy with Seagate 500GB Hard Drive $77 plus postage
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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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