{"id":101,"date":"2006-01-01T21:30:06","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T20:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2009-09-18T10:50:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T09:50:39","slug":"humax-pvr9200t-digital-hard-disk-recorder-1st-jan-2006-200-from-john-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/01\/humax-pvr9200t-digital-hard-disk-recorder-1st-jan-2006-200-from-john-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Humax PVR9200T Digital hard-disk recorder &#8211; 1st Jan 2006 (&pound;200 from John Lewis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the king of current generation freeview box&#8217;s and a pretty good <acronym title=\"Personal Video Recorder\">PVR<\/acronym>. It has a 160 GB hard-disk with enough clout to record 2 channels simultaneously while playing back a previous recording. It finds and sets it&#8217;s clock automatically when it is powered up. It has a nice 7 day <acronym title=\"Electronic Programme Guide\">EPG<\/acronym> that you can browse through and if you see something you want to watch, you simply press a button and it gets scheduled for recording (no more fiddling around with the date and time on the <acronym title=\"Videocassette Recorder\">VCR<\/acronym>).<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/Toys\/HumaxPVR9200t.jpg \"><\/img><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In terms of general operation it seems well thought out but the software doesn&#8217;t seem very robust &#8211; It&#8217;s had a few problems that have needed a reset and it goes completely wrong when the clocks change. The remote control is well designed but the user-interface could be better when editing recordings to cut out the advert breaks (possible but fiddly). The programme guide has to re-load every time you switch on the unit, and it can take about a minute to warm up and for all the channels to load. It doesn&#8217;t allow for rule based scheduling, for example: you can&#8217;t tell it to record all Simpsons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the king of current generation freeview box&#8217;s and a pretty good PVR. It has a 160 GB hard-disk with enough clout to record 2 channels simultaneously while playing back a previous recording. It finds and sets it&#8217;s clock automatically when it is powered up. It has a nice 7 day EPG that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}