No. I just put a large plastic funnel in the back of mine, and all the satellite signals just fall into it from space.

There is £7 delivery on this...OP should have put that in the description...however use code HUMAXBD1 knocks 10% off taking it down to £89.10 plus £7 delivery = £96.10. Just buy it, I cannot see Humax Direct having a Black Friday sale on their refurbs or for that matter any cheaper becoming available.

To put it into context, 3 years ago we got the 1TB of this receiver for £160 from Bargain Crazy, was mint condition with protective sellophane still over the unit. The box had no inner packaging pieces although the unit was sensibly bubble wrapped inside of the box.

Now that was when the 1TB units retail price was £250, it was a stellar deal 3 years ago and only around the last 6 months have we been seeing graded 1TB units now at Humax Direct being £139 (£132.10 delivered with 10% code)

So £96.10 for a 500gb unit is a real good deal unless you could do with more storage capacity for recording. If so it would be worth considering the 1TB unit and particularly the white 1010S as it has inbuilt wifi if needed, the 1TB 1000S does not.

These are "OK" if you don't mind the basic menus. Worth £99 IMHO

Can you use your Sky HD dish with these?

LNB?

Example of a Quad LNB, notice its four F Plug outputs.

Does Freesat get more channels than the Humax Terrestrial boxes offer?

​I have this exact model I'm sure about the menus. It's fine just basic and clunky. works well enough though.

not really, no. you do miss out on a few but I don't think it's that many.

these boxes are also apparently getting an update at some point that will add netflix

Well I certainly have not tried Virgin's latest box or BT etc, but compared to other Freesat boxes and the Virgin V+ box we ditched I find it far from basic or clunky with well defined menus, a fantastic EPG and decent phone and tablet integration.

And depending on your point of view they may be significant. I threatened to put one of these in my daughter's room, so replace Sky - she was unhappy about the thought of losing Dave...

It is a shame that Dave uses videoguard encryption. I really do not understand why considering its free on terrestrial why they encrypt it via satellite..otherwise you could add it as a non-freesat channel.

fair point - I know you can access some channels in STB mode (I think that's what it's called) but I've never tried it properly so wouldn't know if you could get dave (which you probably can't)

these are also easily upgradable to 2TB's as well

series link is great on these (as in, record the next available programme if your'e trying to record 3 at once)

do you think it's worth holding out for black Friday or just grabbing this?

Cant see you getting one cheaper than £99 with warranty anywhere.

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Black Friday is a load of crap they cant sell with a tenner off , I don't really get black Friday

Supposedly Sky have the exclusive satellite rights to all the UKTV channels - so Gold, Really, Dave ... Guess that's one way of protecting that level of investment.

Humax video ... http://isitetv.com/isitetv_cms/player.php?encoded=en062122191254060126151176201226&iprtip=Y

I have just read the following, guess it makes sense, although annoying.....

The main reason for this is that the satellite signals are available over most of Europe, and without encryption, would be freely available to other countries, where the broadcasters in these countries may have also paid for the broadcast rights to those programmes, reducing their “Exclusivity” deals in those countries.

I've got one of the older models and love it!

I don't miss paying for TV (apart from the TV licence fee) with Humax and the free streaming services like iPlayer/4OD etc. :smile:

a quick question before I take the plunge on one of these and be free of sky forever. I have the RF2 out on my sky box feeding another room, do they have the same facility on this so I can push the signal to another room or would you need two boxes.

thanks

Damn I just bought 2 x 320gb for the kids !

HOT HOT HOT

This might be a silly question. Do you need a satellite dish for this to work? Thanks

Is this the sort of box where you can acquire 'gifts'?

There is enough c**p on 50 channels - with another 150 channels to sift through ? Still, Hot for those who want

Thanks. I just thought it might work like a normal freeview box I have that works without a satellite dish.

This is the box that you require

if anyone feels put off by it being a refurb, i picked up a 1010 2 years ago that been fine
Even had a support case for the EPG not refreshing and it rebooting which was a remote issue not local and they fixed OTA, currently running their custom firmware for testing

Got one of these new for cheap when comet closed down, feels good to not pay sky!

Ordered, thanks for the post and the discount code

Thanks r1zla, ordered, thanks for the discount code also cicobuff

​No

They apply to standard satellite boxes that have firmware allowing cardsharing via various means. The gifts provided are usually activations for 1 year subscription to a paid server to allow decryption of PPV channels.

Aha, thanks for that. I feel suitably clued in now :smiley:

I have had this box for 2-3 years now with no problems. After going through many different brands of freeview boxes before, all crashed and died except for this Humax box. That is why people like the Humax so much, reliability. Good price and hot deal.

What you need to know... it never gets updated, even though it has the online facility to do so, Humax just neglect that side of things. And while you get BBC I Player, there is no 4 on Demand, 5 on Demand, ITV Catchup player which is poor. All of course easily added to your TV anyway via other options. The YouTube app is poor, a lot of the videos just don't play. There is loads of apps that are pointless or just tat really. But for a reliable freeview box that won't crash and die and lose all your favourite recorded movies and TV shows, this is a safe investment!

​Hmmm tell me more

No wifi :-(

I highly doubt anyone will be going into details about illegal card sharing on here. What with it being illegal. Google is your friend. There's plenty of forums out there to discuss this on should you want too.

​Oh right sorry it was described as a "gift" I didn't know it was illegal.

They call them 'gift.' Because 'illegal sky card sharing' is a bit of a giveaway.

There is plenty of forums though where you can learn all about it. I was considering an enigma2 box or this box when I quit sky so read up on all things possible with the enigma boxes. Which included CS. Obviously not something I took up as I rejoined sky.

Decided on this as the enigmas don't seem to have any catch up facilities that actually work (this was almost a year ago though so that could have changed now). Which was a deal breaker for me.

I have been having a look at the other boxes like it--so fed up with paying Sky loads of money every month-- we have decided to get a new one with 1TB and found this offer at John Lewis-- an extra £20 give a total of 5 years insurance including accident damage...so total £219 -any thoughts? http://www.johnlewis.com/humax-dtr-t2000-youview-smart-1tb-freeview-hd-digital-tv-recorder/p2043360?colour#tabinfo-ratings

No, that wasn't the point

Then really you don't have a point, like it or not we have around 200 channels on Freesat or Freeview, some we find crap, others not.

Long time advocate of these Humax Freesat boxes. Have (and still own) 2 of the previous versions, and have had this type for the past year or so. This version is a little quicker and smoother than the previous models but they are all way better than the competition. For this price (a couple of months of top $ky subscription), just buy one. If, like me, you sit down for 10 mins a week and go through the planner and record (and series link too) for the coming week, you'll probably find and build up a schedule of programs to watch, enough maybe to ditch sky for good (like I did 5 years ago)

Yeah sorry I am talking rubbish and stand corrected. I have a freeview Humax box and this is clearly a freesat Humax box. The main point still stands that Humax boxes are super reliable and stand the test of time, unlike cheaper brands.

What's the normal price on these refurbs? Tempted but my sky deal has still got 6 months to run, but if this is a deal that may not come around again for a while I'll get it now

Cool thanks

I cant find where to put the discount code in. Can you help please?

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Add to cart the item, huge discount codes box on right side of screen. Hit apply.

Love our Humax box. The software is designed to be easy to use and is pretty much intuitive - much easier than the 2 cheaper Linux-based satellite boxes we've had and given away on gumtree.
Great price-point for an HD recorder with warranty too ...

do I need to be with sky to use this as I am with Virgin media, but still have sky dish up on wall

I have the white one of these. Fantastic device. Absolutely 100% do not miss having Sky (and the bill each month)

Shame they don't have Netflix yet, but still a bargain at this price. I just use a chromecast for Netflix. I believe they have been looking into adding Netflix for a while though.

Currently I'm with Sky but my contract is ending and I want to get rid of them. Can anyone in the know please tell me whether this Freesat box would be better than a YouView box? I was decided on getting a BT YouView box from eBay until I saw this...

I know one uses satellite and the other aerial but what differences are there in terms on content and on-going maintenance/support of the different services?

Can you use any wifi stick or does it have to be the humax one?

Purchased thanks.
Finally ditching Sky.

Because Sky has a contract with Dave for satellite distribution of their program and Sky knowing how popular Dave is will not give up Dave hoping to retain viewers because of this fact. So no chance of getting Dave Free To View on satellite whilst Sky retains Dave.

There is £7 delivery on this...OP should have put that in the description...however use code HUMAXBD1 knocks 10% off taking it down to £89.10 plus £7 delivery = £96.10. Just buy it, I cannot see Humax Direct having a Black Friday sale on their refurbs or for that matter any cheaper becoming available.


If you want Freesat don't hang around just get this STB before it runs out, Humax offers are always well sort after and don't usually hang around, and they are the best Freesat boxes.

That is not the case at all why.

I already found and posted the answer earlier in this thread.

The main reason for this is that the satellite signals are available over most of Europe, and without encryption, would be freely available to other countries, where the broadcasters in these countries may have also paid for the broadcast rights to those programmes, reducing their “Exclusivity” deals in those countries.

That makes perfect sense why it is available unencrypted via DVB-T Freeview and not via Freesat, whereby Astra 28E can be received on varying sized dishes over mainland Europe.

Sold out now

Avforums and Cnet disagree with you and can you really see, except for the expat people, who already have means of getting around this, Germans, Spaniards and the French really wanting to sit down and watch Dave. I live in Benidorm and get Freesat and could get Sky but will not pay their subscription fees.
Everything, nearly, is possible and I can get all the Premier League football matches live, which you can't get in the UK, mainly because the footprint does not reach you.

I don't suppose this box will allow you to record any content displayed on your TV such as Freeview/Freesat/ Wi Fi streamed content, etc;, or do I need a specialist recorder similar to the old Panasonic DVD Hard Drive Recorder I used to have before it gave up the ghost.

Like I said, Humax Refurb deals are very sort after.

Interesting. Does anyone know if the white 1010S works just like the 1000S on a single LNB feed?

Confused about the comments for those ending sky contracts (as I'm about to) - why can't you just use your old Sky box? Don't see why you'd need one of these.

oos

​that is what I'm watching as I'm reading this.

It is a twin tuner, but I believe you can still go through the installation configuration ok with a single feed...obviously not being able to record more than one channel at a time.

It does state so in [this article]....

If you were a Sky subscriber previously, chances are that the satellite dish and the leads that connect to it are compatible with the Humax device. You can connect a single feed or preferably two to your Humax HDR-1010S without any installation costs if this is the case. Two feeds are best so you can record two programmes simultaneously or record one channel while viewing another.

Does anyone think that it's worth signing up to Sky for 12 months on a deal, get all the infrastructure put in then just get this box later on, or just take the plunge and get this and a satallite dish now and save the bother?

Excellent free service, just a shame there aren't more HD channels. Most people will find enough stuff to watch, its quite surprising how much decent stuff is on free TV, especially BBC channels.

Cheapest Sky deal £10 for 1st 6 months then £20 = £180, average install of dish and cable for Freesat £100 depending on where you live, how many feeds and feed length. As Dacia say you do the maths.

I am well aware owning a motorised dish what is possible, including CCCam, IKS and IPTV. If they are not protecting their intellectual property abroad then really there is no reason for them providing it free via DVB-T and not via Astra Satellite, it really would make no sense...so I disagree with you and agree with what has been stated.

I don't have or need a motorised dish, I have three dishes pointing at 28.2, 19.2 and 25.5 and this is cheaper and less hassle than putting up a motorised dish and allows me to watch the footy whilst able to record from my other dishes. Admittedly not everybody has the room to do this, but quite a lot of us in Spain do and certain coastal areas are facing the right way to point dishes at the satellites we Brits are interested in.

I utilise feeds from 0W, 13E, 19E and 28E..I cannot reach 25.5 although would only find it personally useful for beIN media which is on 13E.

What you mean is 25.5 does not reach you.

calm down dear

Depends on your size of dish your line of sight in the sky and proximity whether you can reach it or whether it is reachable to you. I certainly would not attempt bothering with a 1.2m dish upwards for it for sure!

If the footprint does not reach you then it does not matter what size dish you use , even you should know that.
Where are you?

Central England however It's irrelevant as I do not wish to even attempt to reach it, but just because a satellite has a footprint does not mean it cannot be reached outside of its footprint using a larger dish to pull in fringe reception, horizon coverage permitting.

As you are in Benidorm I am sure it is a struggle pulling in some of the Astra 28 transponders outside of their footprint, and you are reliant on dish size.

​Only Humax one, I have one spare....

​ehh I think YOU need to move with the times! I have owned this since launch, have you? it's certainly not as slick as a Sky HD box. It does function just fine, but deffo not as smooth as most sytems.

Yes as I am sure you know the footprint is the pattern that will give you the best reception with the most economically sized dish and if you get on the edge of the footprint a bigger dish will bring in enough signal to hit the LNB and provide a picture but the 25.5 MENA footprint gets know where near the UK so no dish however big will get a signal.
Yes we do get dish size problems in Spain especially since the new satellites became operational and with the narrow beam signals that they are using it means I am using a 1.85 dish and for some of the transponders it's very difficult even then, but thankfully by changing post code input I can go onto transponders that have a better footprint and improved signal/picture quality. Had to do this to get ITV HD but still can not get Channel 4 HD. Sky is a lot better because most of that is on Pan European beam and can mostly be seen on a 1.5 dish.

You can use any WiFi stick that uses Ralink RT-3070.

Thanks for the heads up R1Zia was going to get HDR-1100S 1YB (£219) to replace my old Humax Foxsat (which still gives excellent HD pics but no recording and old menu display) but after your heads up and after nosing about in the Managers special sectrion opted for HDR-1010S instaed (£40 more that the HDR - 1000S 500GB)) but ups from 500GB to 1TB and build in Wi-Fi; £80 less than the lateast HDR-1100S and I can't see what the spec difference is?

Lol, I AM calm, I was just showing you how silly a question it was and how easy it was to work out :smile:

With caution you can. Although they fixed it with the latest firmware update, the one from around June if I remember the date correctly, actually broke the vendor ID support for certain Edimax Ralink chipset dongles including my own. Humax certainly are under no obligation to support third party vendor IDs and I am glad they rectified...but it is a cautionary tale for anyone considering a third party dongle...there are no guarantees for the future.

As said earlier, it is irrelevant as I am not remotely interested in receiving 25.5, there have however been reports on various satellite forums on people being able to fringe receive from 25.5 Eutelsat, whether or not there have been signal changes more recently or not I do not know or simply really care to research into.

MIne came today, looks brand new and works perfectly. Thanks to RIZLAR

Now back in stock . . .

Nice. Grabbed one as I've been thinking thinking about it for ages. Will have to work out how to run an extra cable though as I currently only have a single one. :disappointed:

Arrived today. Brand new as far as I can see, internal packaging unopened, just in a white box rather than the retail one!! Bargain!!

I saw a mention of firmware,
I'm beta testing the new firmware that includes netflix on my 1010

I'm not sure probably best to e mail [email protected],

purchased. thank you. :smile:

Few months down the line no issues at all box looked new to me. Very impressed with my 1st Humax so happy to be not funding Wayne Rooney and the rest of em anymore

does this model include netflix out of the box or does it require a update