HUMAX YOUVIEW REVIEWS TV
It’s virtually identical to YouView in terms of its function and is similar to EE’s TV offering too.
Eventually this is also where you’ll find Netflix, but at the moment, that’s not due to arrive until early 2016.Īlternatively, you can jump straight to a separate On Demand menu where you can search for content through the menus of the players themselves.Ī discrete ‘On Demand’ button lives in the top left corner of the remote which powers up the carousel of catch-up services, which can also be accessed by hitting the large blue ‘Home’ button and selecting ‘On Demand’. You can also open up a separate on-demand menu (which gives you access to things like BBC News, BBC Sport, YouTube and others). You can scroll left through the standard programme guide to search for missed programmes – going ‘back in time’ if you will – which is useful in situations where you’ve either forgot to set a recording, or you simply forgot that Homes Under The Hammer was on. On the Humax FVP-4000T you have two ways of accessing these services. Humax FVP-4000T: Freeview Play user interfaceĪlong with the 160-plus digital TV channels, streamlined access to BBC iPlayer, ITV Player (soon to be relaunched as ITV Hub), All 4 and Demand 5 is baked in to the Freeview Play experience. After that you’re taken through to the channel scanning process and then you’re good to go. You’re then asked to connect to your home network which you can do via Ethernet or WiFi. The first thing you’re asked is whether you want the box to display menu text in English, Gaelic, Irish or Welsh, which is a nicetouch and something that’ll be no doubt appreciated by Celtic language speakers of the British Isles with the obvious exceptions of Manx and Cornish folk. Step-by-step instructions guide you through the entire process. While that was longer than we’d have liked, the set-up process is very straightforward and foolproof.
Scanning for Freeview channels took just under 15 minutes.
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It took us about 45 minutes in total to get set up, although that’s largely due to the large firmware update that hit the device moments after us getting set up the first time round, after which we were forced to do a full restart (which meant we had to input our SSID, password and scan for channels twice). Given that the Freeview Play’s main selling point is easy access to catch-up content, you’d have thought such a button would be in a more prominent position. One exception to this rule is the shortcut button to the On Demand menu, which is situated all up in the top left. It’s lightweight, there’s a groove for your index finger and thanks to the intelligent layout of the buttons – you’ll want to press Home, Guide, Back and the D-pad the most and it just so happens that they’re all neighbours – it’s not a faff to use and it’s easy to get acquainted with. This vaguely ‘80s-ish bling style is complemented by the boxy layout of the remote, which, despite ditching the concave stylings of Humax’s YouView and Freesat remotes is comfortable to hold. We like the gold and brown colour scheme and brushed metal-style plastic accents. It’s a far cry from the bulky set-top boxes of old and takes up much less shelf space than the first-gen YouView box from Humax, the DTR-T1000 (380x55x252mm). The FVP-4000T is a dinky little thing, measuring 280x48x200mm. Related: Freeview Play launching in October on Panasonic smart TVs Humax FVP-4000T: Design and remote control The Humax FVP-4000T is available to buy now and will initially be available in two versions, one with a 500GB hard drive and another with a 1TB disc. The FVP-4000T is the first Freeview Play set-top box to hit the shelves, meaning this little box occupies a small corner of British TV history. Humax was one of the first manufacturers to report for duty along with Panasonic, whose 2015 range of 4K Ultra HD TVs will ship with Freeview Play running under the hood.
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Humax FVP-4000T and Freeview Play: What is it and what’s the fuss?įreeview Play is the much-talked about upgrade of Freeview HD it promises to bring mass market free-to-air TV up to date for the current era of ubiquitous catch-up and on-demand services. We’ve finally got our hands on the first Freeview Play set-top box to hit the market, the Humax FVP-4000T.ĭespite the less than snappy name, Humax has decided to buck the usual boring set-top box trend of shiny black plastic by sheathing it’s first-gen Freeview Play boxes in brown (or ‘mocha’) and beige (or ‘cappuccino’) with a faux-leather effect.īut let’s be honest, what you really want to know is how Freeview Play looks and whether or not the FVP-4000T is worth dropping a couple of hundred quid on.
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