Humax HB-1000S Instruction manual

HB-1000S

Your

USER GUIDE

Contents

Welcome to Freesat.

INCLUDED WITH YOUR SMART TV BOX

Quality state of the art satellite TV receiver

Over 200 of your favourite channels

Picture perfect High Definition on selected channels

BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, Demand 5, YouTube,

BBC News and BBC Sport app

Pay for a little extra telly if you want with Netflix,

Curzon Home Cinema and Hopster

Catch up on the last 7 days of TV with a unique

Roll Back TV Guide

Showcase (specially selected editorial TV picks)

Easy plug and play set up

Free, expert customer support – visit freesat.co.uk/help

or call 0345 313 0051

NEED A HAND?

If you need help anywhere along the way, just go to
the Help & info menu on the Home screen or visit

freesat.co.uk/help

Basics

See what’s
on TV

Extras

Your remote control 2

On screen icons 3

Home. It’s where it all happens. 4

The TV Guide 5

Your main controls 6

Seeing what’s on – Now & Next 7

Watching something on earlier 8

Planning what to watch later 9

Browsing whilst watching TV 10

Find out more about a programme 11

Find programmes by channel category 12

Finding and listening to radio channels 13

Setting a reminder 14

Connect to the Internet 15

On Demand 16
Recordings — Only accessible if paired with an USB 17

Hard Drive (HDD)

Search 18

Controlling your children’s viewing 19

Hiding Adult channels 20

Accessibility 21

Safety Instructions 22

Warning 24

Troubleshooting 25

Setting the universal remote control 27

Specification 42

Open source software notice 44

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On screen iconsYour remote control

Skip backwards – skips

backwards in recordings

Stop – stops a recording
and On Demand playback

Rewind – rewinds up to
x32 times faster

Search – brings up the
Search screen

Back – goes back one
step

MAIN CONTROLS

Up, down, left, right
arrows – moves

around the TV Guide
and menus

OK – confirms your
selection

Number buttons – to
enter channel numbers

SUB - turns subtitles
on or o

Standby – puts the
box into standby, and
on again

Skip forward –skips
forward in recordings

Fast forward – fast
forwards up to x32
times faster

List – sort the TV Guide
into channel categories

Pause – pauses live
TV, recordings and
On Demand playback

TV Guide – opens and
closes the TV Guide

Exit – returns to live TV

Home – takes you

anywhere

i – gives you more info
about a programme

Colour buttons – gives
you more options
on-screen

ON SCREEN ICONS

may contain material with
adult themes

subtitles available

audio description available

shown with sign language

Dolby surround sound available

High Definition

an HD version also available

reminder

part of a series

film

This is a dual remote control for our HB-1000S and HDR-1100S.

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AD – turns audio

description on or o

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The TV GuideHome

The Home screen will take you anywhere
you want to go. Press

HOME

Home takes you to:

TV Guide

See whats on Now & Next.

Showcase

The Freesat team’s picks of what to
watch this week and what’s available
On Demand.

On Demand

The best Catch up TV and On Demand
services full of TV favourites ready to
watch when you are. Your Freesat box will
need to be connected to the Internet. (see
page 15).

Search

Quickly find a programme without
trawling the TV listings.

Help & info

Tips on making the most of your Freesat
box, and info about services for visually
impaired and hard of hearing viewers.

See what’s on the minute you sit down
with our at a glance ‘Now & Next’ view.

TV GUIDE

Press

Use

to explore:

- what’s on ‘Now & Next’

- what’s coming up in the
next 7 days

- what’s been on already but
is available for catch up

earlier later

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SETTINGS

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SEARCH

P

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INFO

R

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INFO

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SEARCH

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INFO

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Seeing what’s on – Now & NextYour main controls

These buttons can get you
everywhere.

OK

Press
and all the available options for that
specific programme will be listed.

So if a programme is on live TV now,
highlight it in the TV Guide, press
the Action Menu will look like screen 2.

If the programme is on later, you’ll be able
to

Press
options and

on a programme in the TV Guide

Set reminder (Screen 3).

to scroll through the

OK

to select.

OK

and

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TOP TIP

Pressing

OK

on a programme brings

up all the available options.

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The TV Guide shows what’s on now
and next in an ‘at a glance’ view.

TV GUIDE

Press

To move through the channels,
use

To move through the programmes a page
at a time, press

To move forward and back 24 hours, press

and

As you browse through the guide, you can
find out more about a programme and see
a full description by pressing

Highlight a programme and press
choose

At any stage to go back to watching TV
full screen, press

P

Watch now (Screen 2).

EXIT

and

P

OK

and

2

TOP TIP

If you know the channel number,
jump straight to it in the TV Guide
with the number buttons.

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SEARCH

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P

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R

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SETTINGS

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SEARCH

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P

INFO

R

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Watching something

Planning what to

on earlier

You can catch up on the last 7 days
of TV with our Roll Back TV Guide.

This is available on selected
channels with On Demand services
on Freesat. Look out for
highlighted in the TV Guide where
this is available.

Press
on today, ready to watch whenever you
are (Screen 2).

You can go back up to 7 days by continuing
to press

Highlight a programme you want to watch
and press

To go back to the live TV Guide, continue
to press

To go back to watching T V full screen,
press

to see programmes from earlier

(Screen 3).

OK

EXIT

earlier

watch later

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To plan your viewing a bit further
ahead, the full TV Guide has
listings for the next 7 days.

Use

to browse programmes that are on

‘later’ (Screen 1).

For the full T V guide press
(Screen 2).

To move forward and back 24 hours, press

and

You can plan your viewing for up to a week
in advance, by setting reminders.

To clear the Guide press

again

EXIT

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To fast scroll through the TV Guide,
press and hold

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SUB AD

INFO

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SEARCH

P

+

P

P-P

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Find out more about

Browsing whilst watching TV

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You don’t have to stop watching TV to see
what else is on. For a quick snapshot of
what’s on now and next, press any of the

buttons.

To see what’s on other channels, press

(Screen 2).

Browse programmes on earlier today
by pressing
pressing

and what’s on later by

(Screen 3).

You can set reminders here by pressing

OK

To go back to watching live TV full screen,

EXIT

press

2

3

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Press
description.

INFO

to see the programme

a programme

Programmes come with extra
info to help you decide whether to
watch them.

To see the programme info, highlight the
programme in the TV Guide and press the

button. A short description will then
show in the info area next to the mini T V
(Screen 1).

To see more info about the programme,

OK

press

Select

Here you’ll find a longer description of the
programme including when it is showing
again and other episodes (Screen 3).

for the Action Menu (Screen 2).

About

ON SCREEN ICONS

You may see these in the info area

High definition

an HD version also available

3D

may contain material with

adult themes

audio description available

subtitles available

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2

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shown with sign language

Dolby 5.1 surround sound
available

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Find programmes by

Finding and listening

channel category

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In the mood for a movie, or need your
next news fix? Jump straight to that
group of channels in the TV Guide by
pressing
(Screen 1).

Use
channel you’re looking for, and press

OK

channels within that category in the
TV Guide.

LIST

on your remote control

to choose the type of

(Screen 2). You’ll then only see the

to radio channels

2

Find the radio channels in the TV Guide
quickly by pressing

LIST

, then use

and select Radio.

To listen to a radio programme, highlight
it in the TV Guide and press

You can choose to

Set reminder just like a T V programme.

Listen now or

OK

TOP TIP

Radio channels start at Channel 700

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