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I haven't contacted humax support. I think I need to do that. I've had every single problem I've found people talking about on here. It's incredibly frustrating, specially after having had a TiVo and having no problems what so ever with it, apart from the buttons on the remote wearing out. What's the best way to contact humax?

also, is it the humax itself causing these problems or icetv? i'm ready to take the stupid thing back to the shop and demand a refund, to be honest. it's given me so much trouble since I got it. I can't trust it to record my shows for me.

 >:( I am getting really quite disgusted with this whole thing. I've had nothing but trouble with it. It is still dropping the padding off recordings when there is no other program on either side of it. And when I go to media to see what is recorded, it just has the time and channel, not the name of the show. I have checked that I have the latest software. I have restored factory settings more than once. Do I just have a dud machine or what?

ok. i'll do it again. i've been back to the tv portal thing a couple of times to check for updates, but it tells me i have the latest. i'll try the factory reset again and give it a few days and see how it goes. you would think that if this was a big problem 12 months ago, it would have been well and truly fixed by now. thanks

hi dave. thanks for the response.

i've already updated software and done the factory reset to stop other problems (disappearing guide and stuff). i have only one series programmed to record during the day. nothing before or after on any channels. i understand padding from having a tivo for the last 4 years or so. i've never had a problem with that, and thought the "intelligent" type padding on the humax would be great, cos i wouldn't have to go in and manually change the padding between 2 back to back shows. but it's not doing what it should be doing. it's just randomly deciding to add padding or not when it sees fit. should i do another factory reset? what difference would that make when i've already done one since upgrading the software?

my padding is not working intermittently. i was reading through this thread, thinking i might find an answer, but then realised this is all really old stuff. anyway, i have series record set for judge judy. i have my padding time set for 5 at the start and 20 minutes at the end. today, it recorded with no padding. yesterday it had padding. wednesday had no padding. i have my automatic power down switched off because of earlier freezing issues. also, for next monday, when judge judy is on, the schedule on the humax says it will record from 1500 - 1530, but shows no program name. it's just blank. on tuesday it actually says judge judy.

what is going on here? i have the latest firmware and did the reset thng and everything.

i am using wireless. i'll see if i can find enough cabling to plug in with ethernet cable and see how that goes

i do have the latest firmware and have reset factory defaults and turned off dynamic update and turned of auto timer power off thing. i have had pretty much every problem anyone has asked about on the humax forum since i got this machine a couple of weeks ago. honestly, i wish tivos were still available here. but i have the humax now and have to try and make it work.

i worked out how to disable and hide the channels i don't receive, but they shouldn't have showed in the first place for my area. if they are available in other parts of regional wa, then there needs to be a seperate region option for down here.

i live in southwest western australia. i get gwn, but not 7 digital and i get win, but not 9 digital. but both 7 digital and 9 digital show on the icetv tv guide. if i try and record something on either 7 digital or 9 digital, i get a failed timer email saying it's an invalid channel number. how do i stop those 2 channels showing on the tv guide?

i have yellow triangles with exclamation marks in them too, on the icetv tv guide next to some programs i have series recording on. there is nothing else scheduled to record at theses times and other instances of the program in the series do not have the warning, whatever it means.

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lol ... yeah, niaive notion, hey. no harm in hoping, tho :P

cool :) i just need a bit of time to get the 99 bucks happening after buying the pvr. 3 months should be heaps.

ah, ok. thanks dcoggins. the hardest thing for me will be going from the tivo to the humax. i've set my padding to 20 minuttes, because even with 15 minutes padding on the tivo, i'd miss the end of something sometimes. you'd think if a previous show ran over, they'd cut some of the ads in the next show to catch up, wouldn't you?

i bought a humax yesterday. i'm planning on using up my free 3 months before i buy the $99 lifetime thing. the offer isn't going to expire on me just before my free 3 months is up, is it?