Freesat Help

Humax are generally regarded as good and you get the added bonus of ITV player along with iPlayer (you only get iPlayer on other boxes), but you do pay a premium for them. They are kind of like the Apple of the set top box world.

I have a grundig box and I think its great, much more reliable than my virgin media box ever was.

Also have a look at the joinfreesat website, lots of news and reviews of all available boxes.
 
I have a Foxsat and though the build quality is great, the UI is a bit shabby and it is so slow to respond that I want to hurl the remote at it sometimes. I upgraded the firmware on mine to add some 3rd party functionality, so I can also stream all my SD stuff over wireless, FTP .TS files off it for re-encoding, edit channel lists and set up my EPG through the web browser. Which is a pretty nice party piece.
 
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I've got a Humax Foxsat HDR, had it for 2 1/2 years and I can count the number of times it's crashed on 1 hand. Agree that the user interface can be slightly sluggish at times but from a functional point of view it's great. I wouldn't swap mine for anything.
 
I havent bought nothing yet as im waiting till the 25th this month as i cancelled my Tivo contract 4 months in due to their price changes last week.

Had lots of problems with the TIVO regarding picture quality and used the price changes as an excuse to get out of the Tivo Contract, i dont like paying £90 a month to watch pixelated blocky pictures and audio out of sync, very disappointed, the Tivo has tons of issues even though the features are superb on it.

So i need to get a Freesat HD recorder which will prob be the Hummax and also need to get a Freesat HD box (no recorder)
 
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I have a Humax HD box and really can't fault it, even comes with a HDMI cable :)

Oh just incase it hasn't been mentioned, don't forget if you are going to to be using 2 boxes and one is a HDR then you will need a 4 block LNB for the dish. The HDR will require two feeds to allow for recording and viewing and the the HD box will require one.
 
DirtyJester said:
I have a Humax HD box and really can't fault it, even comes with a HDMI cable :)

Oh just incase it hasn't been mentioned, don't forget if you are going to to be using 2 boxes and one is a HDR then you will need a 4 block LNB for the dish. The HDR will require two feeds to allow for recording and viewing and the the HD box will require one.
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Hi

I still have my old SKY HD connection leads still setup in 2 separate rooms

I have the white 2 connections leads in the front room and i have 2 connection leads in the bedroom, i used to have a SKY HD box in front room and bedroom. will this be ok to have 2 freesat boxes as i will basically be using the same connections i had when i had 2 Sky HD boxes in separate rooms.?
 
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kmufc77 said:
Hi

I still have my old SKY HD connection leads still setup in 2 separate rooms

I have the white 2 connections leads in the front room and i have 2 connection leads in the bedroom, i used to have a SKY HD box in front room and bedroom. will this be ok to have 2 freesat boxes as i will basically be using the same connections i had when i had 2 Sky HD boxes in separate rooms.?
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Yes mate you will be fine. Just a case of connect each box and run the setup.
 
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