I have the 3700 Still using it mainly for choiceTV recording, apart from the RSS news feeds bit being dead it still works perfectly

Yes still using it. Have a timer to power it off for 5 minutes in the early hours of the morning to keep it responsive when actually using it. Upgraded the hard drive to 1TB  ages ago and use 2lostkiwis firmware for the skipping forward/back functionality. Never used the internet features.

Also a happy owner of a Magic 3600. Doesn't get used much these days but still sitting happily under the TV and even my wife can use it (to play programmes anyway). Main features I wish it had were the five minutes skip ahead that the two previous DVRs had and that the auto turn off after X hours actually happened.

My first DVR was a Philips DVR/DVD in pre-Freeview days. My first Freeview DVR gradually got slower and slower until a push of the pause button would take over a minute to operate. Both were successful buys from 1-Day, something which seems to happen very rarely these days.

Hi, yes still have it. Just frustrating we have to cold start it about every 5 days since they haven't bothered to fix the memory leak they introduced when they updated it to the new data format around 2015.

Yep, still got one and its going strong.  Use to record and playback regular TV shows.  Love mod to skip fwd in  1 min jumps to bypass the ads.  Mines on its 2nd or 3rd HDD replacement.

Hi!, yes, we also have a couple of these units, I just can't to seem to find anything markedly better available currently.

The MTV3600 took a giant leap backwards in usability with version 3.21 and later - that's when they added support for Huffman compression of the programme guide supposedly. From this point the unit seems to crash (memory leak?) every few days. Building on the excellent work by 2lostkiwis I've also patched the software a bit to add in a cron job to reboot the unit each morning at 4am and it then goes into standby 10 minutes later. [bfginger above has found some menu item to magically reboot the unit, but I must admit I can't find it.]

I've also tweaked the skip forward to 4 minutes and the backwards one to 30 seconds which works quite well for us. The unit is now (usually) working pretty well with only the occasional time it wakes up with no sound.

If anyone wants my patched mtv3600_3_23NZbet2 firmware then let me know.

My 3600 got packed away about 6 months ago. The only live TV I watch is the news, everything else is streamed.

My Magic TV 3600, 

Recently all my recorded program's disappeared,  wont Record or Play back.

All other functions are fine, 

Did a test this morning,  decided to see if it would record, and  it did, the program i was watching ,

it played back too. So im going to see if it will record a different  channel, to what im watching this evening,  

Could this mean that there  is a problem with the Hard Drive, on its last legs maybe?

Can it be fixed  Hard Drive?   I have only ever had to get another remote, as it seems others have done.

Have only ever Recorded and played back on it. 

Any suggestions would be great Thanks.

I still use the 3600. Like others, the memory leak(?) is a pain - I have a mains timer to do the reset every few days; still craps out every now and then - usually when the other half wants to watch something recorded!

I am on 3rd hard-drive - a 750GB 2.5 unit from a laptop - they seem to give up when they reach 10 years from manufacture date.

@simony - like the sound of your patched firmware - I'll PM you...