I managed to get John Lewis to price match this in store... got the John Lewis 2 Year Warranty too
rosco123 to bonchai
26 Mar 162#2
Humax standard warranty 2 years.
Zaxxan
26 Mar 162#3
I have the older model. It has saved me a fortune since leaving sky. I now have Freesat and NowTV entertainment, it now costs my about £3.50 amonth (buying cheap NowTV offers) instead of £36 and I watch exactly the same channels.
djlondon22 to Zaxxan
26 Mar 161#7
yep did the same, except my LG has a build in receiver, bye bye Sky
Nicolas to Zaxxan
27 Mar 16#13
But is it exactly the same channels
I thought sky have a lot more channels than nowtv plus now tv sky channels are catch up only ?
Nemesis100 to Zaxxan
28 Mar 16#22
Can you record NowTV channels on to the Humax?
Thanks
bonchai
26 Mar 161#4
good to know! Thanks.
EDEN188
26 Mar 162#5
bought this from Currys last year, not quite sure why people rave about this. The menu is really sluggish. it's OK as a pvr I guess.
frownbreaker to EDEN188
26 Mar 16#9
ITsa good box but menus are slow this new model allows casting from youtube (Android not sure about iOS) the unit needs to be on the network for this feature. The playback TV is nice (not great). It also plays media (AVI, MKV) but the menus and interface is pants.
Nice box - Video and audio quality is MUCH better than that of the tuners built into TVs IMHO.
Build quality is and design is very good. Not like the cheap stuff Sky knock out. Low power consumption and heat long life from these units. Good price.
If you are technical you can use a RP2 with Kodi and USB tuner (OTA not SAT) and record HD without encryption.
The humax records unencrypted only in SD. Great box.
jfclfc
26 Mar 16#6
not bad
sradmad
26 Mar 16#8
good find op, heat added
reserves
27 Mar 16#10
Way cheaper to buy a BT branded Humax box (although based on a different model), unless I'm missing something?
frownbreaker to reserves
27 Mar 16#16
This is a PVR with series record it uses SAT inputs and can record 2 channels at the same time.
It has a 1TB hard disk and you can series record etc.
Files from the HD can be coped to USB (SD only HD files are encrypted and can only be played on the player that recorded them - Shame
Agree the BT Humax unit is cheaper but this is a lot more capable this can also stream content from the youtube app on Android etc...
It supports UPNP and can stream MKV, AVI files locally or remote (SMB etc)
Finally this is FREESAT not Freeview!
peroxidase
27 Mar 161#11
Is there any better freesat box? Sky is going so want to replace it with streaming and freview/ freesat. As we don't have free view aerial I am thinking freesat is cheapest.
ellionic to peroxidase
27 Mar 162#12
free sat definitely has the better range of channels. I made the swap in January to this box and now tv entertainment and out of the channels we watched I think I miss out on around 2 channels. I wish I had made the swap years ago. sky have had 13 years of over priced tv out of me and no more.
the box took a bit of getting used to, it's not as good as a sky+ box. but it does the job and I quickly got used to it and the savings are well worth getting it. I was the same with no aerial , it takes 5 minutes to set up
bob1e
27 Mar 16#14
Only if you join their club. Mine stopped working at 1 year 10 months. Poor customer service experience!
Zaxxan
27 Mar 16#15
All the channels I used to watch on Sky I can now watch on Freesat and NowTV while paying a tenth of the price. Sky may have a few more channels but I never watched them anyway.
flec
27 Mar 16#17
Likewise here.
carlospembroke
27 Mar 16#18
Only problem i had with my foxsat hdr box was the remote had a very poor range, has this been fixed on this model ?
shedloads to carlospembroke
27 Mar 16#19
Yes, the remote is much better on this. I really like this new box and its menus, it's quite an improvement and a real pleasure to use. That's not to say the foxsat is past it though. This offer of the white box is limited to just a few Richer sounds stores so you may have problems finding one but register as VIP to get the 10% off and the refundable 6 year warranty. Humax direct sometimes have seconds but warranty limited.
ellionic
28 Mar 16#20
you only miss out on a couple of channels. if you look through your sky TV guide you think you have tons of channels but now many are +1 ect and ones that no one ever watches. you can use your now tv box as a catch up but you can also watch all films live and it's the same for the movies
reserves
28 Mar 16#21
Ahh, missed that it was Freesat, all good :smiley:
Zaxxan
28 Mar 161#23
No you can't, but there is no need as the NowTV has most things on demand so that you can watch it when you want to.
jamietenby
6 Apr 16#24
hi I want to be able to run one of these and also get the signal in another room is there an adaptor that I can plug and normal RF aerial lead into the back
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I thought sky have a lot more channels than nowtv plus now tv sky channels are catch up only ?
Thanks
Nice box - Video and audio quality is MUCH better than that of the tuners built into TVs IMHO.
Build quality is and design is very good. Not like the cheap stuff Sky knock out. Low power consumption and heat long life from these units. Good price.
If you are technical you can use a RP2 with Kodi and USB tuner (OTA not SAT) and record HD without encryption.
The humax records unencrypted only in SD. Great box.
It has a 1TB hard disk and you can series record etc.
Files from the HD can be coped to USB (SD only HD files are encrypted and can only be played on the player that recorded them - Shame
Agree the BT Humax unit is cheaper but this is a lot more capable this can also stream content from the youtube app on Android etc...
It supports UPNP and can stream MKV, AVI files locally or remote (SMB etc)
Finally this is FREESAT not Freeview!
the box took a bit of getting used to, it's not as good as a sky+ box. but it does the job and I quickly got used to it and the savings are well worth getting it. I was the same with no aerial , it takes 5 minutes to set up