Humax DTR-T2100 500gb BT YouView Recorder Unit (Dual Tuner)

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While waiting for the “new” disk to arrive I found a Youtube video showing how you can ‘fix’ stuck hard disk heads – by taking the cover off and gently pulling the arm away from the platter.

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The same looping logos forever, the recovery menu comes up but as before none of the option will do anything. You might also be able to upgrade your 500Gb box to a 1Tb hard drive or higher and although this has not been tested by us, our readers have reported success. When you press the power button to enter maintenance mode the screen goes black and it never comes up.The YouView EPG that allows you scroll forward and backwards in time, which is one of the great selling points of the service.

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All youview boxes, including yours, will adapt their screen displays according to which ISP it is connected to. Looking at your photos of inside the box there is a large plate on the underside – is that easy to remove? That’s only a watt or so less than the usual power consumption when the box is on, but overall, it’s roughly half the draw of the older YouView box. If your YouView box’s power settings are set to Smart mode then you can set the box to go into deep sleep after you go to bed to save power and pre-boot in the morning. Excellent quality connects via bluetooth to wifi no extra cables to run also allows tv to connect to free view on separate AV channel.This, of course, depends on how the unit was designed, but generally a unit will work with the HDD removed - and it's a common service technique to remove the HDD to check if it's causing the fault.

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It’s a one-way deal with no response from your box, so a recording will happen only if they’re received before the programme starts, your box has enough free space (there’s a 500GB hard drive) and it doesn’t clash with other existing recordings. Oddly the TalkTalk youview box that I've got (DN372T) the settings work independently, apart from a 9 seconds period each time it is restarted from stand-by when in eco-mode. Despite the fan it does get very hot and so I wonder about it surviving as long as one of the other models. We've used the BT-supplied Powerline adapter for the Ethernet connection too, which works well enough for most of the catch-up services.I got it going to record /pause /rewind Portuguese Terrestrial TV yesterday, but guide is only showing program times and durations (not even titles! b) When sending the A/V, via HDMI, through his Denon Receiver (AVR-3808), we repeatedly get a plain blank pink screen. Pink screen suggests at least one of the three HDMI channels is not getting through because of bandwidth issues. A direct line into your router will mean less buffering and faster playback of catch-up and internet TV channels. In this guide we show you how to repair your BT or Plusnet YouView box by replacing the failed hard disk drive (HDD) inside it.