Which is probably more than Jerry Hall gets!

I've got the black version. Excellent bit of kit.

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Personally got a 1000 from them last Xmas with 500GB in it and self-upgraded with a 2TB drive for c£150 (£95+£56).
Definite improvement on ancient Foxsat-HDR and the Freetime App has enabled remote record set up, even from abroad :smiley:

Ooops - SORRY! Got my model numbers totally mixed up! Ignore me

Bloody noisy drives on these.

Love mine, had it three years no problems

Loads of bad reviews recently on Amazon, who do you believe ?

had a camelcamel alert for this today, then forgot! Thanks for the reminder, bought!

Bought the black version last week after Sky hiked my monthly fee (I was on a special 12 month rate apparently which finished) - so far so good. It takes a while to get going when I switch it on (Freesat Screen) and the app gets fiddly once you want to go past tomorrow - but the monthly fee makes up for it.

I found the HD picture poor out of the box but I found some settings and it's pretty damn good. Strangely the adverts seem to be SD/low quality - not that it matters.

Which is probably more than Jerry Hall gets!

How does freesat compare to youview been impressed with that expecially the remote record app etc

I'm fairly certain it's not.

Never seems worth recording anything these days with catch up tv, repeats, & all the +1 hr & +24 hr channels.

No not this model. The 1000s black is mine. Very similar and has worked flawlessly.

How do you receive the signal if it isn't with an aerial? :wink:

Satellite dish

Bargain ^^^

Which is an aerial, just not a terrestrial one :smiley:

A satellite dish is not a aerial sir it's a satellite receiver

So ultimately, you agree with the point :smiley:

Tried Sky for 12 months, has to be the most awful piece of equipment i've ever had, and i had an Original Bush PVR that was released as one of the first ones in the UK.

After looking at reviews on this, i would say this it doesn't have a patch on the Youview boxes, specifically the latest ones that are BT Branded DTR 2100 / 4000 (4K with Fan). I was tempted to upgrade my sky subscription which i am now going to cancel, to a Sky Q box, but tbh i just don't watch any of the Sky channels, the original Sky programs are tripe and poor quality (Excluding Carl Pilkington) honestly i think free to air channels and catch up are all you really need or all I really need.

Currently waiting on Youview to release a new box / Humax release an updated Youview box, please let it have wireless built in. Anyone that knows how long i will have to wait please give me a shout. P.S heat for the deal as it is a good price for a Freesat box, but your better of picking up a Humax DTR-2100 for £50 - £60 on eBay.

what's so good about freeset ?? its just the same channels as freeview by the looks of it ?? just the recording and pausing features ??

Not for me it isn't - in our area Freeview is around 21 TV channels from memory - nowhere near the number on Freesat.

Mine 1000s did up until last week. Now lost all my recordings and can't pause or rewind live tv due to: "The function does not work while trying to receive data for time shift buffer. Try again in a few seconds." :disappointed:

Are Openbox V8S any good? TIA

Very happy with my £50 BT/Humax Freeview box from eBay (DTR-2100). Obviously not Freesat but if you have a decent aerial you can bin Sky and save yourself £600/yr (or whatever Sky costs these days :smiley:)

Can't speak for the 1100 model, but the previous 10xx models you can just void the maker's warranty by opening the case, and replacing the smaller capacity SATA hard drive inside with a larger capacity one (eg 2TB) AV quality/design drive (I got a 2TB Seagate ST2000VM003) - ie just a mechanical issue of unplugging/unscrewing and replugging/screwing new drive in place. The firmware on the motherboard recognises the drive needed formatting and provided menu prompts to do it - ie the drive is just used for storing data rather than the functionality of the unit.
eg https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/hard-disk-upgrade-using-wd20eurs-2tb

Of course any recordings you've already made on your old disc are going to be inaccessible. [With the far older Foxsat-HDR models you could plug the extracted old drive into an external SATA USB unit and access recordings left on it via the HDR's menu system as external USB, but I don't believe this capability carried over to 10xx models.]

A Satellite Receiver is not a dish sir, it's a Satellite Receiver. :man:

Whilst a Satellite dish is actually a parabolic reflective antenna, which actually technically is an aerial......whilst it receives the signal bounced to the LNB it most certainly is not classed as a Satellite Receiver.....the decoder is always known as the receiver. :innocent:

That told me lol. You learn something new everyday:(

Says excellent condition, but the seller couldn't even be arsed to wipe the dust off. Just think what the inside of that box must be like. Overheating, here we come?

Channels come and go, there are more +1 and other channels, but lacks(ed) HD channels and a few of the Freeview one are missing (Dave being one of the more popular channels that is missing).

I will say, the quality of the Freesat reception (I have excellent on all setup) is much better and the HD channels are better quality too and thats on my older foxsat-hdr box and built in freesat TV (panasonic) compared to Samsung and panasonic Freeview (10/10 reception).
I think it's because the bandwidth is higher for the streams.

Anyway, they compliment each other nicely.

You can also add many many many non-freesat free to air channels as well if you so wish and any take your fancy.


Think it's getting time to update my FoxSat-HDR box to something a bit snappier.

I seem to get a better HD picture on 1080i than 1080p - is that even possible?

Great price, and the best box for freesat - sadly not much competition! The UI is poorly designed, but this is a reliable box that does what you need it to do.

You can upgrade the hard disk, but have to remove some warranty stickers first.

Bought Humax 1100-500. Cost me £184. And have been impressed with it.It does exactly what I want. Have loved watching the Olympic's,and picture and sound are very good.It has also paid for its self already .So the current price is very good.And Rupert Murdoch has had enough of my money. Love the comment's so much knowledge.

4k upscaling??

Got anything positive to say today?

£163.50 on Tesco Direct for the black version with the code that expires tomorrow! :smile:

I have a refurb 1010s with 1tb . 12 month gaurantee. It went wrong after 4 months but had a brand new one as a replacement within 4 days.

Love mine - wifi, pause tv, all the iplayers, 7 day back view, free sat, HD on loads of channels.

Cost me £139 as a refurb with everything this posted one has so have a look at the humax direct site first before going with Amazon. The 1tb military model of the 1100s is £189 as a refurb - http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/refurbished.html

Great machines and excellent aftercare

Great piece of kit, was such a relief to get rid of sky!

what actual channels do you get for kids ? luckily the house I recently bought has sat cable running to all 4 bedrooms and dual lines to the kitchen and lounge, I have slung sky multi room box's in to all the kids room for the free to air channels but they only seem to get 1 or 2 kids channels and miss a lot of what sky offers in the lounge. would they migrate to using these easy enough also , they are 5 and 7 and know the sky interface inside out . thanks in advance

Thank you very much for a very concise and clear answer. Sounds very do-able.
:smile:

Yes

I went from VM TiVo to YouView+ less than 2 months ago. As far as bells & whistles are concerned VM wins for me. In addition to what the YV box (Humax DTR-T2100) can do the VM box:

- Allows adding extra time to beginning and end of recordings (hardly ever records the result of the vote on, Coach Trip)
- Has 15 minute index marks on recording so you can skip rather than having to FF at x30
- Never record the +1 episode on a series link
- Hitting Record, records from the beginning of the program (if it was on that channel before) whereas YV starts from where you hit Record
- Has slow-mo
- Has triple record + Play (one more recording channel)

Advantages of the YouView+ box

- Does not attempt to fill your box up with stuff you may like (VM did this even when the box was at 90% capacity)
- Adult Restrictions can be switched off entirely (no more entering PIN to watch The Great British Sewing Bee, recordings)
- VM could be very slow at some functions (due to software updates outstripping the hardware's capabilities). Up to 10 - 20 seconds for some
- Not having to bypass unsubscribed channels in normal channel guide (only channels you can actually watch are displayed)
- Switches on my TV when the box comes out of standby (but varies between the HDMI and the tuner even with my 5 year old TV setup to default to the HDMI on power-up)

Good point :smiley:

Can I watch S*y movies and sports on this box? I'm thinking I've had enough of giving my hard earned money to R.Murdoch who doesn't even pay taxes to UK Authority.
Can someone that understands pls respond in any way. You don't need to respond in details. Y or N would do

You don't want to pay any money to Murdoch but want to watch Sky Movies and Sky Sports?

N

save your money and go buy yourself a Vu+ Solo2

Good deal op, £181 now

The people we bought the house of really liked TV aerials .. we have a cable in every room and two massive 1980s era masts strapped to our slightly crumbly chimneys. We had an old dish too. We went with the dish.

That 'dish' is an aerial! An aerial is something that receives radio waves and converts them into electrical energy. It doesn't have to look like a rod or rods or even just a wire!

Well you are a pedantic science-tw at aren't you?
Technically, I'm sure you are correct, but I am referring to that semantic distinction between what is commonly referred to as an "aerial" - eg. a big metal fork shaped thing and a dish - an oval shaped receiever of those mystic beams we call satellite. Thanks for the science though.
Now I am off for my dinner, or it lunch? For it is the same food, just a different time. Aha. Riddle me that.

TBH an external wireless bridge is arguably more flexible than internal wifi and from £8+ it's hardly breaking the bank. Could even throw caution to the wind and burn £15 on a fancy one http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/edimax-cv-7438ndm-n600-14-99-down-fron-50-99-7dayshop-dual-band-gigabit-wi-fi-entertainment-2497773

Hairs are your aerials man. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.