We suspect this is due to a change we made to HDD initialisation as part of a number of changes to resolve the T3-R sometimes failing to wake from standby.

The T3-R also has great support for subtitles and audio descriptions – if you watch a show with subtitles (which can be turned on and off easily with a dedicated button), recording that show will keep the subtitles available – and you can again turn them on and off with the press of a button.

Another ‘speedy’ element of the T3-R is waking it up – it has a “Sleep Mode”, which lets the device ‘wake up’ almost instantly when you turn it on, while maintaining low power consumption.

The significance of this will, to a certain extent, be determined by the size of screen with which you intend to partner this box.It has Wi-Fi so it’s a breeze to set it up and if you prefer a wired connection it has Ethernet too. As with every Freeview device, the number of channels it can find depends mainly on your aerial and on the Freeview signal and reception in your house. I felt our 5000T had had its day and Humax seemed to have abandoned the product from a development point of view. Mil is having problems with her Manhattan reception - lots of break-ups and pixelating on her recordings. And because the Manhattan T3-R has two tuners, you can record two programmes on two different channels at the same time, and also watch a third channel or a pre-recorded programme.

Below we list the branches disappearing and what the alternatives are if you still want face-to-face banking.Audio visual quality is top-notch, having the ability to stream in 4K from YouTube is welcome, and the Freeview Play interface is on the right side of leading-edge. It’s important to remember one major difference between recording a programme and watching it via a catchup app – the adverts.