![]() Things have improved greatly and the remote control (lengthy but light) works nicely in tandem with the operating system, which is enjoyable to use, moving slickly along its two-tier carousel of options that appears at the bottom of the screen. Not so long ago the BT TV onscreen interface was more complex than Spaghetti Junction. The box is easy to accommodate - at 234mm wide it'll sit neatly on your kit rack. ![]() Connectivity includes the all-important HDMI 2.0 socket, compatible with HDCP 2.2 and capable of outputting 2160/50p images with 10-bit colour and PCM stereo or Dolby Digital+ surround sound. Humax has taken the uninspired-looking DTR-T1000 (reviewed in HCC# 249) and shoehorned in a UHD tuner and slightly larger hard disk (1TB). ![]() There’s a lot more to the DTR-T4000 than just UHD, being a fully-fledged YouView PVR with seven-day rollback EPG, an array of on-demand content (some of it free, some rentable, some for purchase) and access to BT TV’s subscription package. That all changed when the Humax DTR-T4000 turned up, the UK's first set-top box to cater for 4K TV owners, as part of the BT TV ecosystem. Since then nothing that’s been broadcast has had the same impact. The clarity blew my mind and I’ve never forgotten the moment. Ten years ago I wandered into the Tokyo equivalent of Currys and saw an HD broadcast for the first time. BT scores an early goal in the Ultra HD content race with the launch of Europe's first 4K channel
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