Humax HDR-100S - 'Freetime' (Freesat Youview equivalent ...)

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Hi All,

As topic, Virgin Media contract is now up, and with FTTC now at my local exchange I'm considering my options as to what I do.

The house currently has a satellite dish on the wall, with two points coming into the lounge. For some bizarre reason the house doesn't have a normal TV aerial.

I'm tempted by the Humax HDR-1000S, and the freetime setup looks pretty decent. We don't make any real use of the extra channels you get ontop of freeview on our current TV package, but we do use the on demand stuff a bit. We are Netflix account holders and it sounds like this will be being rolled into Freetime in the near future. All in one box, superb.

Just wondered if anyone else here has bought one of these yet, or has any other experience of them :)
 
I would stay clear of these at the moment. They look like an cut down version of the HDR-Fox t2 where humax have tried to save on components and get a box out for the mass market. I believe this to be the case becuase they have linked in with talktalk.

Some comparisons can be found over at Hummy.tv

If you are after advice I would suggest looking around for a cheap 2nd hand HDR-FOx sat box or get an ariel installed and get a Fox t2
 
Well, I totally ignored that and purchased a HDR-1000S 500GB for less than £200 brand new (special deal).

Just got it set up - fantastic image. Almost all functions I've tried work well, I would say that the TV guide is a tad slow to move through pages (compared to an older Sky Digibox for example), but mainly it's a great bit of kit! Should only improve with firmware updates - Humax seem committed to finding all the bugs (and there are quite a few now but no showstoppers for me). This is a good option if you struggle with Freeview coverage and therefore can't use the very similar (but better for on-demand) Youview box.

Oh, and for those who have no dish (like me), make sure you buy a satfinder for about £5-£7 - made the job so much easier.
 
Do these things (Freetime and YouView) depend on a fast internet connection for the on-demand and catchup services, or do they allow downloading/caching to the HDD? The house I'm moving into soon only has 2Mbps internet which often isn't good enough for a decent experience with most streaming services because they don't buffer enough in advance.
 
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