Granted that I don't use it all the time but whenever I do fire it up to watch a recording, I don't have any real issues with responsiveness and poor responsiveness is a major bug-bear of mine ! There is a small delay when calling up the media library as the hard-drive whirs up, but channel changes are pretty-much instant and the EPG populates instantly too - far quicker than the EPG on my 2019 Panasonic OLED ! The Humax does get reset fairly regularly (thanks to the constant Freeview changes) and has had a new hard-drive recently, both of which may help I suppose. Strangely, I don't actually find my box slow at all - at least not as slow as you would expect for an older device, as you say. If you do end up interested in this particular model, then let me know and I can tell you a bit more about it. View attachment 1541191 View attachment 1541192 Interestingly, this PVR does have an internet portal, but it's very limited (iPlayer and YouTube) and I've no idea if the apps still work as it's not currently connected (there's no wi-fi - it's ethernet only). The red button service on the HDR-Fox T2 only seems to work when the red button prompt is displayed on a BBC channel - this normally appears within 20-30 seconds or so of switching over, but does sometimes seem a bit sporadic. The current Humax Aura wasn't released at the time - it's supposed to be much better, but will almost certainly use the newer red button format. The box still works surprisingly well, considering it's age - so much so that I put a new 2TB hard drive in mine when the old drive started to fail last year rather than buying a new machine, mainly because I read that Humax's subsequent PVRs weren't as good. If you were looking at older PVRs, my Humax HDR-Fox T2 PVR (from 2012) uses the old red button service you're after. Had it shut down ten or fifteen years ago you may have found it easier to adapt. It sounds like in your case the extended support has been a curse rather than a blessing. I expect it to be wound up completely sooner rather than later though. They planned to shut it down in 2020 but that got changed to scaling it back after the pandemic hit, and a few accessibility issues were raised by the RNIB. The BBC have cared enough to continue this service for over ten years since then. That's when most of the country had stopped using it, the point where it had become clear that websites were the normal textual news source and teletext had a limited future in that form. Such services were little used enough to become commercially unviable around the late 2000s and were discontinued at that point by most broadcasters. It's a dead end service with a shrinking number of users.
It's sluggish and limited and nobody growing up for a long time has been choosing it over the website or app. The teletext-style service has long been obsolete.
#Bbc red button on direct tv tv#
As I said we only use a TV to watch freeview channels and keep up with the outside world of news and sport. Leaving me with two other options.īuying a new smart TV and connecting an old style freeview box to it (I have 3/4 of them) or maybe an even cheaper way would be to buy a monitor and connect one of the boxes to that. Seems from your reply Dodgexander that there is little to no chance of that happening. So as we will be replacing the TV (a 43") it was hoped that there maybe a manufacturer who makes TV's of that size that were either not smart or at least still used the old red button format rather than an app as used on smart platforms.
Estimated repair cost is £200, two thirds of it's original purchase cost.
The LG TV has developed several faults since it was 14 months old that after almost 4 months of email dialogue with LG has now concluded it has a fault with the main board. Even I cannot navigate the app to obtain the news, either sport, UK or world, in a listing format similar to the original one. My wife uses this service to stay in contact with the outside world and even after 18 months with the LG is no nearer able to access a service that she can use. Click to expand.From what I can find it seems the service is different on smart TV's however, our previous Panasonic was a smart one but had the original red button format, possibly a change over model
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