Questions & Answers: List all.

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Q1: How do I record a series on weekdays only?
Q2: How do I get the buttons on the left hand side of the Navigation/Function bar Illustrated at top of page GB36) to work?
Q3: How do I quickly get to the start of a recording?
Q4: How to I workaround the limit of 20 timers?
Q5: The machine takes a long time to come out of standby and sometimes has problems when it does.
Q6: How do I record the program I have already been watching up to 2 hours as long as no more than 2 programs will be recorded simultaneously as a result?/ Instant Recording Page GB31 of User Manual.
Q7: How do I get it working when it is locked up with a frozen picture?
Q8: How do I get information about the next programme quickly?
Q9: The ‘Edit’ function (User Manual GB36 & 7) can split a recorded programme. Why would I want to do that?
Q10: What is the best way to select and playback a recorded programme?

Q11: The cover over the lower buttons of the remote control gets in the way sometimes?
Q12: Why does the spec suggest that the VCR Scart is not a means of input?
Q13: What does the ‘Source’ button do?
Q14: How can I make it easier to read the Program Names on the recorded programmes list?
Q15: How can I see what programs are being recorded while watching a live program?
Q16: All my TV or all my Radio recordings are missing when I go to Menu>Recordings>Recorded Programmes?
Q17: I recieve duplicated channels from two transmitters but the Humax puts the stronger channel in the 800's and the weak channels in the correct place.
Q18: New box switches itself off at midnight.
Q19: I've got the aerial cable looped through, so out of the wall socket, into the 9200T and then out of there into the TV. Now I noticed that when I'm watching via the scart on AV1 on my TV that I see what's going on on another terrestrial channel. If I unplug the RF loop then it goes away.
Q20: Where does it get its firmware updates and EPG info from? Is it another 4tv based machine?

Q21: Which channel is my Humax picking its signal up from for example BBC1?
Q22: Transfer of recorded programmes to the PC via USB does not seem to work properly.
Q23: How to start watching, from the beginning, a program that is being recorded... as long as it is the only one being recorded at that time, and is the channel the box is currently tuned to.
Q24: What is the point in contacting Humax when many other people have the same problem?
Q25: The only missed recordings I have had (2 of them)…
Q26: Fitting a bigger Hard Drive.
Q27: I set timers for two consecutive programmes on the same channel and padded them. The second did not record.
Q28: One way to play a recording transferred from Humax to PC.
Q29: A recorded tv programme file transferred from the Humax to a PC has no file type. What suffix should I add?
Q30: In the date box on the RECORDED PROGRAMME screen for one recording there is an unusual icon for which I can find no reference in the manual. It is a yellow box, overlaid at the bottom left hand side with a green oval. Inside the oval is a white rectangle

Q31: Some options are greyed out on menus.
Q32: What all-in-one remotes work with the 9200T?
Q33: Help with all-in-one learning function.
Q34: The 9200 fails to record scheduled radio programmes if the unit is left in standby.
Q35: No sound on some recordings.
Q36: How do I know if I am running out of disk space?
Q37: When will Humax release an update to the firmware?
Q38: Where is the the best place to ask new questions?
Q39: "channel viewing restricted by recording" message is displayed.
Q40: When I press Playlist it only shows Video recordings.

Q41: Recording stops halfway through the programme.
Q42: How do I get rid of wavy lines on analogue Channel 5?
Q43: What is the effect of a lost aerial signal on recording?
Q44: Instant Recording Problems.
Q45: Recorded programmes with dates in the future (Posted by South.)
Q46: My Media E Linker software is not 2.1
Q47: How do I transfer a file to my PC?
Q48: Problem when recording channels from ITV and Channel 4 (Multiplex 2).
Q49: Upload of MP3's causes a crash.
Q50: ‘Time Bar’ Two functions for faster navigation. (Not mentioned in User Manual.)

Q51: Clock time is incorrect?
Q52: Wrong sound or no sound.
Q53: Box won’t boot/ Micom software explained.
Q54: How can you simply make a separate recording containing a clip from an existing one.
Q55: My box is regularly locking up.
Q56: How can I play back on my PC a file downloaded from the Humax.
Q57: Does Archiving a 9200T recording to a VCR work?
Q58: How can I speed up the loading of EPG when I come out of standby?
Q59: How do I update the firmware?
Q60: What problems does the software update released 21st November 2005 aim to fix?

Q61: To whom should I report hangups with new or old firmware?
Q62: Can I increase the size of the partition for storing MP3s?
Q63: How do I type in characters not shown on the editing screen, for example to rename a recording?
Q64: I am watching and recording an important programme and realise that is running so late that the recording will have stopped!
Q65: What if I update the firmware and for me it is worse than the old?
Q66: What do I do when told to reset to the factory defaults?
Q67: What happens to recordings in progress when there is a power cut?
Q68: Why can’t I view a third channel while recording two?
Q69: EPG is blank when the machine is first switched on and slow to populate.
Q70: Timeslipped program jumps to live broadcast (and dumps buffer) when a scheduled recording of the same program ends.

Q71: Recordings with no sound (replicable fault).
Q72: RF passthrough signal corrupted for 7 seconds when 9200 put in standby.
Q73: Optical Out connection does not work with MP3s.
Q74: Where can I get help?
Q75: What are the limits on MP3 storage?
Q76: When I switch the group of channels to be shown in the Guide it reverts back to the previous group next time?
Q77: Where is the serial number and how can I recognise it?
Q78: How do I delete all the files in Partition D1(Image/Mp3) or Partition D2(Recorded Programmes) if there is something wrong preventing normal deletion?
Q79: Topup TV signal and recording problems.
Q80: Lost all the recorded programmes from hard disk although the Hard Disk space is still shown as used. Powering off and a factory reset does not recover them.

Q81: ‘Standby’ acting strangely. EPG stays populated. Box comes out of ‘Standby’ without delay. Does not go into proper standby mode when asked. Hard Drive keeps spinning. False message in response to some commands says ‘Cannot do the requested action while recording’.
Q82: TV Picture goes black for 3 seconds if a recording starts.
Q83: What quality/definition is best for uploading JPG photos to Humax9200T?
Q84: Episodes of stuff reaching the end of a weekly series take the name and date of whatever is being broadcast in that time slot the week after.
Q85: Questions on standby, mains switch and power cuts.
Q86: Icons missing and/or games icon in the main menu. No access no recorded programmes.
Q87: What firmware fixes are Humax working on?
Q88: Can the Humax buffer two channels simultaneously?
Q89: How can I watch video/listen to radio recordings on my iPod.
Q90: What software can I use to convert & create DVD's from recorded programs?

Q91: PC will not connect to Humax with USB.
Q92: Can video be transfered from a PC to the Humax?