Which Freeview / Freesat set top box

[Hoover.]

I have a TV with a decoders for Freeview & Freesat.....which I can access both (also have Virgin media all sing & dancing which I am axing).

Whilst the TV has the decoders I want some the flexibility of the Virgin box .... so Decoder + PVR + ease to access other things...

I was thinking something along the lines of Humax DTR1010 which has You View...... but there appear to built in functions that you can access due to the link up with You View....

so is there anything similar / better / cheaper but similar / or have these issues been resolved (hacked?)

I'm all ears

(I call it cost cutting but it's an excuse to look at gadgets )

[nick_j007]

I am in a very similar situation. Just stopped Sky so can only view free channels but no recording ability, so a new Freesat box needed. Is there a no-brainer best buy box for me?

Nick

[nick_j007]

Hoover. said:

I have a TV with a decoders for Freeview & Freesat.....which I can access both (also have Virgin media all sing & dancing which I am axing).

Whilst the TV has the decoders I want some the flexibility of the Virgin box .... so Decoder + PVR + ease to access other things...

I was thinking something along the lines of Humax DTR1010 which has You View...... but there appear to built in functions that you can access due to the link up with You View....

so is there anything similar / better / cheaper but similar / or have these issues been resolved (hacked?)

I'm all ears

(I call it cost cutting but it's an excuse to look at gadgets )

The DTR 1010 looks great but very recent Amazon reviews are hard on it http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B00AMDG00O...

[SpeckledJim]

Very pleased with my Humax Freesat box. 500gb I think. It has the odd programming bug in the EPG, but delivers great pictures without any hitch.

[nick_j007]

Thanks! This is 1TB, but the same as yours? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Humax-1TB-Recorder-Require...

[SpeckledJim]

nick_j007 said:

Thanks! This is 1TB, but the same as yours? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Humax-1TB-Recorder-Require...

That's the fella. We've had 2 hard years use from ours with no problems worthy of the name. I'd recommend to a friend. You can record 2 channels whilst watching a recording. BBC iPlayer is very well handled.

One thing I'd like that it doesn't do is remote recording, set from your phone/pc etc.

Paid £225 for our 500gb one.

[nick_j007]

SpeckledJim said:

That's the fella. We've had 2 hard years use from ours with no problems worthy of the name. I'd recommend to a friend. You can record 2 channels whilst watching a recording. BBC iPlayer is very well handled.

One thing I'd like that it doesn't do is remote recording, set from your phone/pc etc.

Paid £225 for our 500gb one.

500Gig should be enough....what's the HD size in a Sky HD box do you know?

[FlossyThePig]

If you want catch-up on BBC, ITV, C4 and C5 then:

• For Freeview look at the Humax YouView box (BT and TalkTalk provide one as part of their video package)
• For FreeSat look at the Humax FreeTime box (If you want YouTube an HTML5 version has just been added to the features)

[PhilboSE]

Humax used to be the only game in town, but many comparative reviews for freesat+ now have the Samsung SMT-S7800 in front. I got one of these a while ago, very pleased with it, patched the firmware (strongly advised when I got mine, they probably ship with new firmware now) and no crashes.

Series recording works well and it offers to record in HD when it knows there's an HD channel showing the same programme.

[VEX]

The Humax FoxT2 freeview range can share its recordings with other Fox receivers on the same network.

So there is no need to remember which box you recorded thing on.

Works really well, install a pair of them at a clients last week.

V.

[Blue62]

Humax for me, picked one up in Tesco with a hard drive for £90 and it's performed really well so far.