Yes, I know this has been discussed several times, but bear with me. Having searched a few threads here and in avsforums, it seems to me that the freesat box is a bit crap and quite expensive to boot. So would it be a reasonable alternative to buy 2nd hand Humax HDR-1100S box from ebay, from someone accepting returns and some kind of rep? These boxes are probably fairly old but if the HDD breaks, it should be easy enough to swap a new 2TB 2.5" drive in there. I've got LG CX OLED which has single sat input so technically I need no PVR at all, but USB HDD would be then another item on the shopping list.
I've got Sky-Q dish and I'm aware someone needs to climb up and replace the LNB with a quad model, technically dual output would work just fine but quad costs about £15 new so whatever, the antenna guy will probably want a lot more than that. That someone's probably not going to be me, I don't have a suitable ladder and even if I did, it'd be a bit iffy, so that's probably going to add a significant amount of £££ to this escapade.
I've already returned the Sky Q box a good while ago and pretty much just want to be able to watch the freeview channels without having to jump through several different streaming apps and the landlord is too cheap to put up an actual aerial. Being able to actually record shows would be nice too, those apps don't have bestest quality AND I don't enjoy unskippable ads all that much.
The other way to do this would be to get the basic Virgin mix tv, but TBH I'm tired of them and since we've finally got shiny new fiber, I can ditch 'em and come back as a new customer after 18 months or so.
I've got Sky-Q dish and I'm aware someone needs to climb up and replace the LNB with a quad model, technically dual output would work just fine but quad costs about £15 new so whatever, the antenna guy will probably want a lot more than that. That someone's probably not going to be me, I don't have a suitable ladder and even if I did, it'd be a bit iffy, so that's probably going to add a significant amount of £££ to this escapade.
I've already returned the Sky Q box a good while ago and pretty much just want to be able to watch the freeview channels without having to jump through several different streaming apps and the landlord is too cheap to put up an actual aerial. Being able to actually record shows would be nice too, those apps don't have bestest quality AND I don't enjoy unskippable ads all that much.
The other way to do this would be to get the basic Virgin mix tv, but TBH I'm tired of them and since we've finally got shiny new fiber, I can ditch 'em and come back as a new customer after 18 months or so.
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