The screen on the front of the unit is slightly easier to read but scrolls, which can be distracting but my wife appreciates the feature that sorts recordings into folders. No more will she need to scroll past pages of Family Guy to view her own choice of recorded TV!

After a few days use I am very pleased. HD channels have perceptibly better image quality, even though I only have a “HD ready” (720p) TV. The Indiana Jones film series was as good as DVD, with 5.1 and nice crisp images. Later Live.. With Jools Holland is simply superb with a decent surround sound mix straight from the studio. If the BBC starts broadcasting more shows with surround sound of this quality I’ll be very happy*!

ITV HD could happily be swapped with Film4 or another Channel 4 variety as it seems to be a waste of bandwidth.

I haven’t yet tried media streaming from the network and there hasn’t been a Formula 1 Grand Prix since I bought it, which was one of the biggest selling factors. Perhaps an update will follow if either of these disappoint.

The Humax portal needs some more work, whilst iPlayer is very smooth there aren’t very many other options yet. In addition I am unsure if the “record two, watch another” is the same as the older 9200. It seems that if two channels are recording then you can only watch a previously recorded programme. I’ll edit this post if it turns out that assumption is wrong.

In summary this is clearly a worthwhile upgrade, even at £300.

* – Please note BBC: I specifically exclude The One Show.

Every time the phone was plugged into the computer iTunes would say that there was an update for the carrier settings, but it never applied and the menu entries remained blank. O2 support were only slightly helpful, taking me through the settings which appear on their website but not fixing the Visual Voicemail issues or the prompt in iTunes.

There are threads on the O2 site here and here and a useful one on AVForums which gives the fix.

Unfortunately the fix is to completely reset the iPhone and start from scratch. Restoring from a backup simply brings the old (broken) settings back. I couldn’t find a way to only synchronise contacts back to the phone, though iTunes suggests it is possible.

Follow these steps to repair it:

1. erase the phone from the menu: Settings -> General -> Reset -> Erase All Content and Settings
2. connect the phone to iTunes and restore iOS4
3. set the device up as a new phone, not from a backup!

Browsing through the carrier settings menu should now show the correct values for APN (idata.o2.co.uk). Importantly, the Visual Voicemail settings should also be in the menu.

Now to setup all my apps, account sand contacts from scratch..

Big thanks go to Simon from the company who responded to my queries very quickly.

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