I have one. it's so slow to load you forget what you wanted to watch. otherwise good

If you dont mind a refurbished one, they are £39 direct from Humax, mine was like new with 12 months warranty.

http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/refurbished/hb-1000s-94e552.html

Bargain. I had the equivalent Humax Freeview box with an external HDD - worked a treat.
Alternatively, If you have half decent technical PC knowledge and an extra £30 you could consider a Wetek OpenElec box with dual Sat tuners for £99. With a bit of installing and tweaking you can get it to run Kodi + TVHeadend etc and make it a full blown PVR with all the other benefits of Kodi.
I got mine to replace a Sky HD box - recording stuff to a NAS drive rather than local HDD..
Granted it isnt as stable as a Humax or Sky box - but the flexibility and additional features more than makes up for it.

I had quite a few problems at the beginning - but then I was new to the world of Kodi / TVHeadend etc. But once I got over the issues, my box has been fairly stable for the past few months. I record TV shows to my NAS so that I can watch them on my tablet. I also record the more important progs to my YouView box - just in case the Wetek fails....

​Thanks for that.

Mark.

any idea what these are like from streaming dlna from a plex server?

would be better if they got rid of there flash based operating system and supported plex too

If you dont mind a refurbished one, they are £39 direct from Humax, mine was like new with 12 months warranty.

http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/refurbished/hb-1000s-94e552.html

can you use these to receive channels from other satellites such as german channels on Astra1?

This looks like an interesting option for what i was researching for a 65 year old parent. Is the TV guide and youview easy to understand and simple to use? and does the youview catchup add adverts?

Bargain. I had the equivalent Humax Freeview box with an external HDD - worked a treat.
Alternatively, If you have half decent technical PC knowledge and an extra £30 you could consider a Wetek OpenElec box with dual Sat tuners for £99. With a bit of installing and tweaking you can get it to run Kodi + TVHeadend etc and make it a full blown PVR with all the other benefits of Kodi.
I got mine to replace a Sky HD box - recording stuff to a NAS drive rather than local HDD..
Granted it isnt as stable as a Humax or Sky box - but the flexibility and additional features more than makes up for it.

I can tell you that it very much seems to come down to who you get on the end of the phone/computer. My mum just replaced a Humax box and the first person she spoke to said there was nothing she could do. So she called back and was given a replacement refurbished unit sent by courier!

Can these folk deliver from ordering from their website ?

Strange when I got a duff refurbished freesat box last year, they were excellent in getting it replaced!

If you're happy with Freeview you could get the Human T1000 which includes hard disk for £67.50, nice unit and mine arrived as new. There was a 10% discount floating around that made the additional P&P charges free.

http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/refurbished/dtr-t1000-500gb-1.html

Word of warning Human Direct Customer Support is appalling, they lie (multiple times to me), don't answer emails but as long as you receive a working unit you'll get a bargain.

I have had two Foxsat HDR boxes for about 5 years. Best thing I ever bought. Do yourself a favour and buy a dual tuner with internal HD version instead of this. They come up on ebay quite often for around £100 or less. Oh and buy Humax not Panasonic Freesat because the latter suck big time

Good deal and great boxes, but bear in mind this one has not got the hard drive to record (I don't know if you can add one though).

The 6 years cover sounds good for £9.99 as well.

I have one. it's so slow to load you forget what you wanted to watch. otherwise good