Initial annoyances, now excited !!!

So the Humax Icord Mini is my entry into the world of HD satellite television. Have long been looking for a satellite receiver with HD Plus, an integrated hard disk for PVR, USB interface to export recordings, Internet and HbbTV. Those were the criteria and the Humax Icord Mini was then only times the best receiver that fulfilled all the requirements.

Commissioning was initially simple and intuitive, have me but (if enabled the updating of the EPG who love can sometimes take over an hour) before installing over the annoying Updating Data wondered. That was the first point of criticism. Well, picture quality and switching times were definitely before super. Especially on HD simply breathtaking!

Then I wanted to configure the WLAN have different Internet Sticks tried, none worked. That was of course annoying, especially since the Humax-stick costs about 20 euros, but hey, it makes no sense, you want to use it, yes. The Humax Webstick works for well right away and without any problems. So this is again, great for the original Humaxstick.

Recording I have already tested extensively, everything is wonderful extent. If you just like me only a loop-through cable, so loop through (incidentally, was with me supplied with it) used can look only HD when recording, and just look SD when recording SD. But in my opinion this is also sufficient completely out, because the function itself does not make any problems.
Particularly positive is definitely the really ultra-quiet hard drive. My old receiver has always grumbling, here I hear nothing! At first I thought the hard drive is out, until I noticed that it is always running (for timeshift), so just top quietly!

After a few days use, there was definitely the really annoying criticism of the automatic updates of the EPG! I do not want to wait until more than an hour to watch TV! These must be absolutely turned off in the menu, otherwise the one to bring the mind! Nevertheless, it is now turned off, I still EPG and the Internet even Web EPG on each transmitter, so it puts no restrictions. The receiver now makes only a brief update about a minute or so, which is negligible.

A very interesting option is to stream video on a media server. Here I can only recommend the free XBMC warmly, so does the streaming movies from Icord and transferring these to a PC wonderfully and without problems. In particular, the operation is feasible even for laymen.

Another very annoying problem that was for me out, that one HD channels can not regulate the volume with the remote control from the receiver. If one looks so HD Plus you have to adjust the volume with the TV remote control. This took me a few days really just annoyed. Fortunately, I found today only to the solution. The remote control of the Humax Icord Mini is a universal remote control !!! They can at the TV programmierenm which is easy and fast and you're ready to control the TV with the remote control Humax! I am honestly very happy and excited that this is now so is. I can see the full range of functions in my TV now so use and have only one remote control for both.

All in all, there were initially problems that had made me really mad and I was about to return the device. Since I now but really get to know the Humax and discover all the functions I'm slowly really impressed by the small! It has all the features that I wished with simple operation. He is stable with no crashes and are a really great image. I can therefore fully Recommend this receiver!