As of January 2012: The device looks at first glance sound, the firmware is but extremely immature. So the receiver moves to HD channels up with an error message, it is currently not possible reception that only disappears when you change to a SD channel. More seriously still, that a HD-recording is not possible if the receiver is not turned on for the exceptional timing. The programmed recording we just do not run, so you have to run the device quasi continuously. Even otherwise occur during switching on a few inaccurate error messages. The support of Humax concedes this error a while, but says no concrete dates to update. The image quality may therefore indeed be quite good, the constantly occurring problems make the use but at the moment highly unpleasant.
Addendum (28/02/12): ********************* The new firmware is there. The start error 102 has been resolved safely. Recording of HD channels with Timer I'm testing. I tell them shortly.
Second Addendum (28/02/12): ******************************* Now everything works the way you want it. Would have been nice if the device would have this firmware version already in the delivery.