Need to get Freesat and Blu Ray boxes this week - help!

[anonymous-user]

I need to get the following in the next few days so would be grateful for some feedback/suggestions:

1) Freesat Hard Disk Recorder for living room - was going for a Humax Foxsat-HDR but should I be looking elsewhere?

2) 2 additional normal Freesat boxes - cheap for the bedrooms - any suggestions?

3) Blu Ray player - seems the Panasonic DMP-BDT210 is good value for money but, again, open to suggestions.

Thanks!

[bristolracer]

As well as the foxsat you can look at

Samsung SMT-S7800 500GB Freesat HD TV Recorder
or
Echostar HDS-600 RS 500GB Freesat HD Receiver/SlingBox (you can remotely view your recordings via broadband with this box,handy if you have a holiday home)

For the bedrooms if you just want cheap and cheerful then the bush cheapies from argos will be fine, i have fitted 30 or so of these for customers with no problems.

If you are knocking sky on the head bear in mind your old boxes will revert to freesat viewing (no plus without subscription)

Re the blu ray the panny will be fine just check the model number as they bring a new one out every other day, sony,samsung and lg also fine, if you get a bluray to match your telly then remotes should be multifunction.

[anonymous-user]

Cheers Nick! One last Q - have you nay experience with the Panasonic DMRBS880 which does it all in one box?

[tim2100]

I have been researching this recently.

If you get a Humax HDR for the main living room & network the device, what you record on that can be viewed on the other boxes upstairs.

[anonymous-user]

tim2100 said:

I have been researching this recently.

If you get a Humax HDR for the main living room & network the device, what you record on that can be viewed on the other boxes upstairs.

Interesting. House is Cat 5 networked so could be a goer.

[bristolracer]

garyhun said:

Cheers Nick! One last Q - have you nay experience with the Panasonic DMRBS880 which does it all in one box?

I have no direct experience of these however im not sure how much hd content it will let you transfer to dvd, most of these machines now have copyright protection in them now. If you dont need "hard" copies of recordings its an expensive alternative.
I am always pleased to see Panasonic stuff at a customers as I know it will mean no grief and they normally are pretty bullet proof

[anonymous-user]

bristolracer said:

I have no direct experience of these however im not sure how much hd content it will let you transfer to dvd, most of these machines now have copyright protection in them now. If you dont need "hard" copies of recordings its an expensive alternative.
I am always pleased to see Panasonic stuff at a customers as I know it will mean no grief and they normally are pretty bullet proof

OK cheers!

[Driller]

tim2100 said:

I have been researching this recently.

If you get a Humax HDR for the main living room & network the device, what you record on that can be viewed on the other boxes upstairs.

Eh, when did they start doing that? Do you mean an FoxsatHDR with Foxsat HDs?

This would solve a particular integration problem I have!

[tim2100]

Driller said:

Eh, when did they start doing that? Do you mean an FoxsatHDR with Foxsat HDs?

This would solve a particular integration problem I have!

I was looking at this one - http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/product.asp?ProdRef=1...

Scroll down to the Multimedia and Home Networking.

I would have thought this would be on other Humax boxes.

[Driller]

tim2100 said:

I was looking at this one - http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/product.asp?ProdRef=1...

Scroll down to the Multimedia and Home Networking.

I would have thought this would be on other Humax boxes.

That is superb, thanks very much for the link

Does anyone have any more info on this? Anyone sucessfully done it?

[Driller]

Damn, only works with Freeview apparently

[tim2100]

Driller said:

Damn, only works with Freeview apparently

What advantage does freesat have over freeview?

[Driller]

If I use Freeview it's all in French...

[tim2100]

Driller said:

If I use Freeview it's all in French...

[Road2Ruin]

garyhun said:

Cheers Nick! One last Q - have you nay experience with the Panasonic DMRBS880 which does it all in one box?

I have one of these, great bit of kit. It does just about anything you want. It is also DLNA certified so you can stream anything recorded on it to any other DLNA certified device connected to the network.

[MonkeyHanger]

garyhun said:

3) Blu Ray player - seems the Panasonic DMP-BDT210 is good value for money but, again, open to suggestions.

I've just got the BDT-310 which is only slightly different. A friend has the 110 and they're fine bits of kit.