The latest update includes the following additional Functions and Fixed Problems:

• Humax TV Portal enabled
              – iPlayer
              – Internet Radio
              – Wiki@TV
              – Flickr
• Audio Drop out on HD programmes resolved
• HDMI > DVI improvements
• Back button returns to previously viewed channel (when i-plate is on screen)
• WiFi Support (Humax Dongle to be available from humaxdirect.co.uk)
• Background Copy
• Background Delete
• FTP Server > Switch this option ON in the Internet Settings menu)
              – Username: humaxftp / Password: 0000
              – FTP is available for Backup purposes only
              – All content transfered from the product via FTP will be encrypted and you are only able to playback on the product when copied back on, or via USB
• Auto Delete function – oldest files will be removed; Lock files so they are not Auto Deleted.
              – Auto Delete is switched OFF as Default
              – To enable Auto Delete go to Menu > Preferences > Recording > Auto Delete
• Allow selection of Multiple Folders for copy/move/delete
• Trailer Booking (Green button “Book Me” prompt will appear on screen)
              – BBC and Channel 4 currently broadcasting info for Trailer Booking.
• SMS Input supported
• Power Saving in Standby option included in Installation Wizard

Software Information
 
System ID
 80BC.7E00

Application Version
 FHTCP 1.02.07
 
Loader Version
 A7.30
 
Update Date
 21st January 2011

You can download the update from the Humax website if you can not wait or miss it

You can track future over the air updates updates on the DTG website

A review of the Humax HDR-FOX T2 and latest prices are here

DMR-BW780 as well being a full featured Blu-Ray recorder it also features Twin HD Terrestrial Tuners allowing you to record Digital broadcasts without the use of an external tuner incorporated into a set-top box. High quality digital television enjoyment has never been easier with a Panasonic Recorder. The hybrid digital tuner offers HD/SD recording. DLNA Home Server Functionality. The built-in 250GB Hard Disk Drive lets you record an enormous amount of programming without using a DVD. With a massive 885 hours of capacity and editing capabilities, you can have the freedom to store a massive amount of your favourite programs. Should you wish to archive the informattion, you can easily record it to Blu-ray Disc or DVD.

• HD Blu-ray recorder with twin HD terrestrial tuner compatible with Freeview+HD
• Long time archiving in HD quality : 35-hour long time archiving in HM mode
• Easy and convenient operation : Pause Live TV and Rewind Live TV
• Enjoy recorded content in a separate Room : DLNA
• Multi media HD storage/archiving : networking with HD camcorder and digital still camera
• Freeview+HD

Record 2 channels – never miss your favourite programs
Thanks to the twin tuners, you can record two channels at once, straight to the Blu-ray Recorder’s built-in Hard Disc Drive. Alternatively, you can record one channel while watching another, or even record two while watching a DVD, Blu-ray Disc or content you’ve saved to the HDD.

Twin Digital tuners
Freeview+HD and Freesat+HD are the only way to enjoy high definition broadcasts with no subscription and no monthly fee. With over 140 channels, including HD offerings from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, you’ll always find something to watch. Plus, because it’s all recordable straight onto the Blu-ray recorder, you’ll never have to miss your favourite shows again.

Pause and rewind live TV
The Blu-ray recorder’s DIGA system is the new simple and convenient way of pausing and rewinding live TV. With the ability to rewind up to 2 hours, you’ll never miss a thing. You can pause live TV as though you were watching a DVD.

HD Recording
Record with no loss of quality
With the Blu-ray recorder’s DR mode, you can record HD content and broadcasts direct to the HDD without the slightest change in quality. You get the same unforgettable picture, the same crisp 5.1ch surround sound and the same subtitles and audio description. It’s full High Definition in all its glory – just as it was intended and yours to view whenever you like.

Fast HD conversion
We want your HD recording world to be as flexible as possible so we offer a range of High Speed Copy Modes to make the handling of your HD content easier.

Panasonic’s original H.264 Encoder provides a convenient and space-saving compression format that saves valuable space on your Blu-ray recorder Hard Disc and allows a number of programs to be saved to a single Blu-ray Disc. In addition, the Encoder ensures superb picture clarity in both slow and fast motion playback.

High-speed copying
Copying content from the HDD to disc is not only simple; it can be done at incredibly high speeds. Your family movies and photos can be archived in full HD to a Blu-ray disc, or simply copied to a DVD so you can share them with all your friends and family. Either way, it takes very little time – one hour of full HD content can be archived to Blu-ray Disc in just one minute (HM Mode).

Stunning Playback
Blu-ray Discs allow you to watch your favourite movies and moments in stunning high definition. And the Panasonic range of Blu-ray Recorders ensures that you can experience all the crisp detail, rich colour and unforgettable sound in the way they were originally intended.

That’s because Panasonic Blu-ray Recorders use high quality image technology that precisely processes every single pixel. They also incorporate 1080/24p playback, meaning images from a Blu-ray Disc are reproduced in their original form, with no need for conversion.

The powerful processor Uniphier Chip that has seen Panasonic win many awards; offers the best picture performance for Blu-ray movies and for HD recordings.

PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus is a high quality image-processing technology developed by Panasonic to precisely process each pixel of the Blu-ray Disc™ video signal in the vertical direction. It reproduces colour data with twice the accuracy of conventional systems to keep colours faithful and sharp.

Eco Friendly Power Features
Intelligent Auto Standby means that when you’re finished watching a film on your Blu-ray recorder, you can simply press “TV” and the recorder will automatically revert to standby mode.

Furthermore, recorders with the Power Save function will automatically turn on and off at the same time as your TV, ensuring that it never uses power unnecessarily.

HD Network Hub
Store photos and videos in High Definition
This Blu-ray recorder makes it easy to store and manage all your favourite HD content in one convenient place. Finally, a simple way to really enjoy and save HD home movies from a camcorder without a PC. Shoot your HD movie and transfer direct to Blu-ray in full High Definition, or transfer to the hard disc, edit, and then save to Blu-ray Disc. This player is also great for transferring HD images. Or, if you want to share with all your friends and family, why not save them in standard definition to DVD so everyone can enjoy?

DLNA networking
The DLNA Network Technology transforms your BD recorder into a true home hub. Simply connect to your wireless home network (LAN) and you can send AVCHD, JPEG files and recorded TV programmes to your DLNA capable VIERA TV, Blu-ray player, PC, and other devices on your existing network.

Internet TV
Stay connected with VIERA CAST and BD Live
With VIERA CAST we’ve broken down the barriers between TV and the internet. It allows you to access live web content including YouTube and Picasa, where you can access those shared videos and pictures live on your TV screen.

And with BD Live, you can connect to the Internet and play Blu-ray movies that have Internet-enabled content, such as interactive multiplayer games, trailers and extra features you can download from the Internet to local storage, e.g. on exchangeable memory like an SD memory card. The technology gets you the most from your movie watching. In the near future BD-Live will enable users to join in quizzes and challenge each other in super interactive games.

Infinite entertainment with
Internet@TV
The new Internet@TV platform provides viewers with a gateway to a multitude of entertainment ranging from Video, Music, Social Networking, News and Games amongst others. Samsung’s Internet@TV offers users a diverse range of content to bring something for everyone in the family. Simply connect your new Samsung device to the internet via Ethernet cable or Samsung wireless dongle to access great services such as LOVEFiLM, BBC iPlayer, Twitter, YouTube and many others.

More real than reality
Your mind won’t believe your eyes. That’s how
breathtakingly stunning the picture quality you get with Samsung HyperReal engine is. Enabled by Super 3D Realisation, the picture is unrivalled as it is
unbelievable. This way, you’re never just watching a movie, you’re living it. Every moment will ring truer,
go deeper, feel stronger, look richer. Hard to believe when you’re on your couch.

Freeview HD
As well as up to 50* free SD channels, Freeview HD gives you all your favourite TV in fabulous HD:
The BBC HD channel the best of the BBC channels
ITV1 HD – the same as ITV1, but with programmes remastered in HD to improve picture quality
Channel 4 HD will launch very soon along with an S4C channel in HD in Wales
* Number of channels available are subject to digital TV coverage at your address

Full HD 1080p
Anyone can say they have the clearest picture. But only Full HD 1080p has twice the detail and twice the resolution of regular HDTV. It delivers dazzlingly, rich colour and vivid details. And even corrects the errors from standard definition content. It’s definitely not your father’s HD.

All Share keeps you connected
LCD TV Series 6 takes the struggle out of sharing your talent with the world, or at least with your family. Transfer your videos, music and photos from your PC or mobile device. Wirelessly and effortlessly. It even connects with multiple PCs. Who said you need connections to get on TV?

Samsung Website Product Page

Ultimate reality with Samsung 3D
There’s only one way to experience 3D when you’re not in a theatre. And that’s the Samsung 3D TV. It offers the ultimate immersive viewing experience by liberating content from the flat confines of the TV and turning it into explosive imagery. The effect is breathtaking-life-enriching, ultra-real picture quality that rivals the cinema-imported into your own living room. Samsung innovation has even made it possible to convert your favourite 2D movies to 3D. Because a Samsung 3D TV demands your attention, no matter.

Infinite entertainment with Internet@TV
The new Internet@TV platform provides viewers with a gateway to a multitude of entertainment ranging from Video, Music, Social Networking, News and Games amongst others. Samsung’s Internet@TV offers users a diverse range of content to bring something for everyone in the family. Simply connect your new Samsung device to the internet via Ethernet cable or Samsung wireless dongle to access great services such as LOVEFiLM, BBC iPlayer, Twitter, YouTube and many others.

More real than reality with 3D HyperReal Engine
Your mind won’t believe your eyes. That’s how breathtakingly stunning the picture quality you get with Samsung’s 3D HyperReal engine is. Enabled by Super 3C Realisation, the picture is as unrivalled as it is unbelievable. This way, you’re never just watching a movie, you’re living it. Every moment will ring truer, go deeper, feel stronger, look richer. Hard to believe when you’re on your couch.

All Share keeps you connected
Samsung HDTV takes the struggle out of sharing your talent with the world, or at least with your family. Transfer your videos, music and photos from your PC or mobile device. Wirelessly and effortlessly. It even connects with multiple PCs. Who said you need connections to get on TV?

Full HD 1080P
Anyone can say they have the clearest picture. But only Full HD 1080p has twice the detail and twice the resolution of regular HDTV. It delivers dazzlingly, rich colour and vivid details. And even corrects the errors from standard definition content. It’s definitely not your father’s HD.

Samsung Website Product Page

The Toshiba Regza RV will launch in April this year with LCD screen sizes 32″, 37″ and 40″  all capable of 1080p resolution.

The Regza RV series will include Toshiba’s Active Vision II (50Hz), MetaBrainEngine, Resolution+, Dolby Volume, 4 HDMI sockets and best of a a wireless dongle to connect back to broadband wireless router/access point to allow for future IPTV services ie BBC iplayer via broadband.

 With both standard definition DVB-T and high definition DVB-T2 tuners offering the full array of SD and HD Freeview channels without the need for a separate set top box, no satellitedish and no contract or suscription the Toshiba will appeal to plenty.

No prices available yet. We will publish as soon as we know.
 
Toshiba REGZA RV Series Specifications

• Available in 81.3cm (32”), 94.0cm (37”) and 101.6cm (40”) screen sizes
• Full HD (1920x1080p)
• Freeview HD (DVB-T2)
• Active Vision II (50Hz)
• MetaBrain
• Resolution+
• Dolby Volume
• AutoView
• 1x CI+, 4x HDMI, 1x USB
• Wireless Ready (DLNA, Certified for Windows 7)

The HDR5010 has a massive 500GB hard disc (this is much larger than any Sky box) and should give around 120 hours of HD recording you could treble that to over 300 hours of standard definition programmes as the HDR5010 will of course record your usual stand definition Freeview favourite channels.

The Toshiba also includes as standard with all Freeview HD set top boxes and TV a Cat 5 Ethernet port to cannect to a broadband router to allow future IPTV services ie BBC iplayer to be streamed through the HDR5010. Also included are three HDMI slots and two USB sockets.

The HDR5010 is expected to retail for £350 at launch expect this to fall as popularity of Freeview HD grows and more PVRs from other manufacturers bring Freeview HD recorders to the market.