What Freesat box?

[Puggit]

We've just moved in to a house which used to have Sky+, so 2 cables are fed from the dish.

I'm assuming I can reposition the dish, buy a Freesat PVR, and away we go.

Any hints, tips or recommendation for hardware please!

[E31Shrew]

We've found the Humax to be the most reliable, never had an issue with any as yet!

2 models

1 320GB
2 500GB

[Sixpackpert]

Humax all the way. Ours is great and had it since launch.

http://www.humaxdigital.com/uk/products/product_st...

You shouldn't need to fiddle with the dish if it hasn't been moved since the Sky was unplugged.

[Puggit]

Oooh - same satellite?

[Incredible Sulk]

Puggit said:

Oooh - same satellite?

Yep. Or if it isn't you don't need to fiddle with the dish. Plug and play!

Only issue I've had with the Humax box was down to a dodgy HDMI cable.

[telford_mike]

We had Sky+HD for years, and got fed-up with the bills. Replaced it with a Humax Foxsat HDR - 240 quid from Tesco. Just plugged it in to the existing satellite cables - job done.

[Sebo]

Sixpackpert said:

Humax all the way. Ours is great and had it since launch.

http://www.humaxdigital.com/uk/products/product_st...

You shouldn't need to fiddle with the dish if it hasn't been moved since the Sky was unplugged.

I have this one and rate it (have come from Sky+)

Some cool features that aren't on Sky+ (offload media to a HDD via USB, ability to bookmark recordings for example, recorded F1 and able to bookmark the point where Vettel and Webber crashed to make it easy to find when viewing / showing friends).


Ability to play BBC iPlayer although I don't have the internet sorted at my house yet.

[E31Shrew]

telford_mike said:

We had Sky+HD for years, and got fed-up with the bills. Replaced it with a Humax Foxsat HDR - 240 quid from Tesco. Just plugged it in to the existing satellite cables - job done.

Damn! Another local sale missed!