There's still no provision for setting timer paddings, however, so you're at the mercies of the broadcasters should programmes over-run.įortunately, that's not a scenario you will encounter often and for the rest of the time, the DTR-T2000 proved a fabulously reliable recorder, as those that have gone before it.
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Setting up and accessing recordings is also a relative breeze and you get all the usual Freeview HD+ niceties such as Series Record and Chase Play. It's very easy to follow and the default blue colour scheme is one of the nicest to look at but you do have a choice of a more monochrome look, should you so wish. We've always been big fans of the YouView user interface.
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The DTR-T2000 still doesn't feature WiFi connectivity, either, which is plain silly but you do get a reasonable set of video and audio connections, plus wired LAN for the on-demand services. Presumably this is as part of a cost-cutting exercise but its presence is definitely missed. The general design of the Humax DTR-T2000 follows closely from what went before but the new unit is a little smaller - thanks to an outboard power supply - and the display panel is no longer there. To ensure HDD load wasn’t an issue, we formatted the hard drive of the T1010 so the T2000 is definitely faster out of the blocks. The T2000 could snap out of standby in anything from less than a second, up to three in Low, whilst the greener setting saw start-up times in the 45 second to 1min15sec range. Our T1010 takes anything from 1m30sec to 2mins to come out of standby with Eco set to High and three to four seconds in the Low configuration. To begin with, you have the choice between Low and High Eco settings in the menus, with the latter the slower option. Start-up times with the Humax YouView boxes have never been wholly consistent. Just to be sure, we tuned using exactly the same aerial point on three occasions, per unit, to account for weather/tropospheric anomalies but with the same results each time.
It’s quicker to find all the services but, more importantly, it was able to pick up BBC 4 and CBeebies HD (and others), where the DTR-T1010 could not.
The first thing we noted is that the new unit has a more sensitive DVB-T2 tuner. Just about everything in this review is identical to the state of play when we reviewed the 2TB DTR-T1010 back in March 2014 but it’s here where the DTR-T2000 distinguishes itself. There is also an option of instructing the box to always look for HD versions of on-demand content, which we would, of course, recommend you activate – display permitting.
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The TV & Signal option allows retuning as well as displaying signal quality and from here you can also set an audio delay to fix lip sync issues with connected equipment. The Settings sub-menu is split in to eight categories – System Information/TV Signal & Quality/Parental Controls/Subtitles & Accessibility/Network & Internet/Language. It doesn’t yet extend to genre searches beyond being able to filter for items from On-Demand, the EPG or Music Videos but it works very speedily and provides suggestions in a grey bar corresponding with the letters you’ve keyed in, which can certainly speed up the process. The Search facility is excellent, allowing you find content from both the EPG and On Demand Players. You get at all the menus by hitting the blue Youview button on the remote control from where 5 options – Search/MyView/Guide/On Demand/Settings – are presented. One of the most interesting features of the YouView platform is the ability to scroll back through the schedules in order to access programmes already broadcast from those channels with On-Demand players available through the platform. There’s also a date ticker across the top, making it simple to schedule recordings and you can skip days in advance and scroll back through time by using the Fast Forward and Rewind buttons on the remote. Programmes highlighted in light grey are currently on air and those in dark grey surroundings are future events. The Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) affords a 6 channel/1 and half hour view with a useful timeline running down the screen vertically to display the current status. You can opt for a ‘High Contrast’ alternative if blue is not your to your tastes which provides a black, white and grey colour scheme, instead, but we definitely prefer a bit of blue! The YouView User Interface (UI) is one of our favourites, in any device category, with its clear and easy-to-follow presentation and attractive pale blue colour scheme.
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