Freesat recorder
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If you are reasonably technically minded it's worth considering a Linux based box. There will be quite a bit of setting up involved but there are plenty of guides online. You won't have red button, streaming services such as iplayer etc if these are important to you but you will get all the FTA channels you would with Freesat plus easier access to Channel 4 HD which is no longer easily available on the platform.
I've had this box for a couple of years.
https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/satellite-and... and you'd need to buy a hard drive,which are very cheap nowadays - internal or external.
It will operate as a twin tuner, you can watch on a PC/tablet/phone at home (or globally if you set up your router accordingly). With a LNB upgrade you could watch/record/stream 8 channels simultaneously. If upgrade you LNB it gives you the flexibility to run slave boxes across your LAN in a similar fashion to SkyQ.
There are cheaper twin tuner boxes available such as this but they won't do the 8 channels thing but can do everything else.
https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/satellite-and...
I've had this box for a couple of years.
https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/satellite-and... and you'd need to buy a hard drive,which are very cheap nowadays - internal or external.
It will operate as a twin tuner, you can watch on a PC/tablet/phone at home (or globally if you set up your router accordingly). With a LNB upgrade you could watch/record/stream 8 channels simultaneously. If upgrade you LNB it gives you the flexibility to run slave boxes across your LAN in a similar fashion to SkyQ.
There are cheaper twin tuner boxes available such as this but they won't do the 8 channels thing but can do everything else.
https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/satellite-and...
Last thread on this: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
tl;dr: Humax's contract ran out so they don't make them any more and retailers sold out of any remaining stock. New company (Arris) will be doing a fresh 4k Freesat recorder - but it's been "coming soon" for a while. Was supposed to be out in January, then by end of Feb, then end of March (before coronavirus hit)... so you might be able to get one very soon, you might be waiting months.
The only "plug and play" alternative right now is to pick up a secondhand Humax HDR-1100S but prices can be silly for quite an old unit.
tl;dr: Humax's contract ran out so they don't make them any more and retailers sold out of any remaining stock. New company (Arris) will be doing a fresh 4k Freesat recorder - but it's been "coming soon" for a while. Was supposed to be out in January, then by end of Feb, then end of March (before coronavirus hit)... so you might be able to get one very soon, you might be waiting months.
The only "plug and play" alternative right now is to pick up a secondhand Humax HDR-1100S but prices can be silly for quite an old unit.
sjg said:
Last thread on this: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
tl;dr: Humax's contract ran out so they don't make them any more and retailers sold out of any remaining stock. New company (Arris) will be doing a fresh 4k Freesat recorder - but it's been "coming soon" for a while. Was supposed to be out in January, then by end of Feb, then end of March (before coronavirus hit)... so you might be able to get one very soon, you might be waiting months.
The only "plug and play" alternative right now is to pick up a secondhand Humax HDR-1100S but prices can be silly for quite an old unit.
Thanks, that's helpful. I may have been too hasty cancelling the sky contract tl;dr: Humax's contract ran out so they don't make them any more and retailers sold out of any remaining stock. New company (Arris) will be doing a fresh 4k Freesat recorder - but it's been "coming soon" for a while. Was supposed to be out in January, then by end of Feb, then end of March (before coronavirus hit)... so you might be able to get one very soon, you might be waiting months.
The only "plug and play" alternative right now is to pick up a secondhand Humax HDR-1100S but prices can be silly for quite an old unit.
goldieandblackie said:
Doesn't record unfortunately. phil_cardiff said:
goldieandblackie said:
Doesn't record unfortunately. megaphone said:
Can't you install an aerial and use Freeview/Youview?
I'm in the same boat, my aerial was in the loft, now the loft is a room. If I got an aerial it would be on the house looking hideous on my garden side. But I have satellite on the opposite side where no one can see it, so have been looking at Freesat on and off for a while.Will wait for these new boxes, we don't watch much live TV these days though.
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hstewie said:
hstewie said:phil_cardiff said:
goldieandblackie said:
Doesn't record unfortunately. 
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