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The PVR is highly responsive apart from taking its time to boot up (a real annoyance) and re-tune channels. The EPG is a paragon of onscreen guides, so that finding and recording shows is about as easy as it gets.

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To help satiate your desire for 2,160p material, there’s a handful of short promos in 4K designed to show off the format, located in the BT TV portal. Other sports lined up include MotoGP, UFC and rugby.

One or two live matches a week will be shown in 4K on the Ultra HD Sport channel (number 434 on the EPG). Approximately 50 channels are in HD but that includes seven BT Sport red button options. Included in the subscription is the BT Sport Pack (BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2, BT Sport Europe, BT Sport ESPN), which includes all of the UEFA Champions League and a number of Premier League games. Netflix is absent but is coming at an unspecified later date and you can subscribe to Sky Movies, Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2, although these are not in HD, let alone UHD, and look diabolical on a 55in screen. BT says the service will only work if the Humax box is connected by Ethernet (or Powerline, maybe) to a BT Home Hub router (£6.95 for new customers).

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You must also be a BT TV Entertainment Plus subscriber (£15/month). You get 248 channels including 47 premium ones with a decent roster of aerial-delivered non-4K Freeview channels and broadband-delivered BT TV ones. The majority of BT Infinity customers will be able to receive the service.' Infinity 1 customers will be able to order BT TV Ultra HD if their line is technically capable of supporting 44Mb (broadband usage, however, will still be subject to the 40Mbps limit). 'The service requires 44Mbps which ensures a high-quality TV viewing experience and concurrent internet use. 'BT TV Ultra HD is available to BT Infinity 1 and 2 customers,' explains BT. Some clarification is needed here, in fact - don't assume that a BT Infinity 1 subscription will suffice. And it must be of the Infinity variety – a fast connection is essential. To access the UHD channels you must be a BT broadband customer.

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For watch-n-wipers all this won't be an issue, but those who like to hoard TV series and are planning to gorge on as much 4K fare as possible, it could be.

Recording two live UHD football matches (five hours and eight minutes in total) filled nine per cent of the hard disk, according to the onscreen info. The 1TB capacity of the internal hard disk is perhaps a bit mean as you can only record 60 hours of UHD material, but it is sufficient for around 250 hours in HD, 600 hours in standard-def, or somewhere in between for a mix of the three.

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