Freeview box+HD

Literally just clicked buy on a Humax 9200T PVR.

Freeview with twin tuner and 160gig hard drive, £200.

Took ages to find somewhere that had one in though.
 
The thing you must consider with these high end freeview recorders is that sky will often supply very cheap sky+ units. I know of several people who only paid £50 for the unit, then use an £18 subsciption (+10sky+, but this is being abolished so people say)

When compared with a £200 freeview unit, you have £150 to pay sub fees, at only £28pm currently and soon falling to £18pm, you could have 6-7 months of sky+ for the same price. Only after that would it start costing you more. And its only a 12 month contract. Then add to the equasion that if you want a few more channels you need topuptv, which not only has another activation charge but also has a monthly sub.

So for people like Ev0, have you really thought this through?

I was going to do the same as yourself, but went for sky+ instead as freeview doesnt seem to make much financial sense for what you actually get when compared with sky.
 
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So for people like Ev0, have you really thought this through?
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Oh yes :)

Can't have sky here, can't mount dish so that's the first problem.

Freeview box this gives me everything I want, don't need anything else as not a big tv watcher. Saying that, having the ability to record stuff this will probably change :)

Did an online quote thing with Sky, £89 for a Sky+ box, £17.50 for first 4 months then £25 a month.

Then when ym year is up can I cancel the channel subscriptions, but I still have to pay a tenner a month to use Sky+, or can I cancel that as well?

I know the Sky+ system is far superior, but to me it's not worth the extra cash.

Did an online quote thing with Sky, £89 for a Sky+ box, £17.50 for first 4 months then £25 a month. Total is £159 over the year more than having a freeview box, and I had to choose two channel packages when I'd only be remotely interested in one of them anyway.

Jez said:
I was going to do the same as yourself, but went for sky+ instead as freeview doesnt seem to make much financial sense for what you actually get when compared with sky.
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Makes perfect financial sense, I pay less to get what I want than paying more for stuff I don't want.

Freeview disk boxes can be had cheaper, I picked this one for the dual tunerfunctionality.
 
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If you look around then single tuner (ie no record one and watch another channel)can be had for around £100.00 Makes like the Digifusion fvr90 have an 80 gig hd.
 
I think you need to keep paying the £10 / month in order to use Sky+ - kind of takes the Schmeichel considering you've already paid for the hardware once your 12 months are up.
 
Yeah bar the topfield products the 9200 is probably the most pricey lol, as others have said single tuner smaller models can be had for a lot less, twin tuner smaller capacity can be had for about £50 less too.
 
This morning I bought a Digifusion FVRT90 for £99.99 from ......... (also known as Fusion Dig FVRT90)
I've bought it as a surprise for the wife to go in the kitchen under the 14" TV and they go together well.
Its quite a small unit being 36cm x 25cm x 6cm.

It setup easy and is quite a joy to use. Channel changing is quick and you can programme from the EPG.
It must be noted that it is a single freeview tuner so you can't record one channel while watching another channel.
Of course you can put the analogue channels on your TV though.
You can also pause live TV if you need to go and do something else.

Even the wife was impressed and said its a bargain so I must have done something right.
 
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