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Update on the Humax PVR fix – still coming “soon.” Maybe.

May 9th, 2010 8:13pm Leave a comment Go to comments

Update on the Humax PVR fix - still coming Some Humax PVR users have been an unhappy lot recently, suffering fairly major performance issues with their units.

We’ve got two PVR-9200T units, both of which have been blighted by annoyances like slow updates, non responding remote controls and frozen players.

The company finally acknowledged the problems affecting these PVRs recently, promising a software solution that will ‘dramatically improve the user experience’ and address issues such as freezing and locking up.

How soon is now?

Frustratingly, the company has failed to name an actual date when these updates may become available, so we emailed their PR team last week asking for clarification.

We’ve just received an email (impressively sent on a Sunday afternoon) saying that they’ll have ‘firm dates’ for the update ’soon,’ but these are ’still to be confirmed at the moment.’

Which, frankly, doesn’t tell us anything at all and doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence in the product.

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  1. Hendo
    May 10th, 2010 at 08:51 | #1

    I have a virtually unusable Humax 9150. There have been numerous promises of a new OS that would fix the freeze problem dating back to the beginning of the year but none have materialised. I have given up on the thing and ordered a Phillips HD PVR which will arrive at the end of the month. In the meantime I shall campaign to get my money back from Humax.
    People have been treated very shoddily by this company.

  2. May 10th, 2010 at 09:58 | #2

    If this was happening in the US, I’d imagine Humax would be facing a load of class action lawsuits by now.

  3. gary
    June 13th, 2010 at 19:09 | #3

    My humax 9200 recently updated itself and I am a happy bunny again. Remote works properly. EPG now fully populated and everything seems to be back to its pre-changeover best. Faith retored in humax. Only slight and unconfirmed concern is hard drive may have shrunk in capacity.

  4. Andrew
    November 11th, 2010 at 14:17 | #4

    Anyone got any news on the update for Humax 9150?
    Any one tried the beta and had problems?

  5. Nigel Jamison
    January 31st, 2012 at 01:47 | #5

    My Humax 9200T is infuriating. It will not respond to remote. It has to be turned off at the mains when it reboots and then you have a short while of responding. then same all over again

  6. alan
    February 8th, 2012 at 22:03 | #6

    @Nigel Jamison

    mine is identical to that Nigel…any ideas?