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Bighare
12 Dec 16#1
Remember that it needs an external USB hard drive if you want to record anything .....
ST3123
12 Dec 16#2
Sorry but seems kind of pricey for a basic viewing only box, especially considering you can get 500GB Youview boxes for £50 and often under on eBay. Sure Freesat commands a premium in general, but i'd still say a basic STB is of limited use these days....
ziggy81ziggy to ST3123
12 Dec 16#9
Youview is through aerial? We pick up about 5 channels through aerial so for some people Freesat is worth it :smiley:
jeczap
12 Dec 161#3
For the past couple of months this has the regular price at both Currys and Tesco (I know because I had been price checking before I purchased a refurb from Humax for £40something)
jeczap
12 Dec 162#4
sisseroo
12 Dec 16#5
Why are the freesat boxes dearer than the freeview boxes. Been looking for a freeview box under £100 from humax, don't mind the old type
dothedealnow to sisseroo
12 Dec 16#7
suspect its a volume issue, many more freeview boxes sold than freesat.
welshblob to sisseroo
12 Dec 16#8
Smaller market which means less volume and therefore more expensive to produce.
The Humax Youview freview dtr-2100 PVR is a really good, fast box and I could really do with finding a Freesat equivalent as my old original Freesat PVR is a bit clunky these days. The Youview box also blasts the Virgin Tivo out of the water on speed / GUI layout as well which isn't that unexpected given its got a new processor although Virgin do seem to shoot themselves in the foot with released firmware which slows the Tivo down.
dothedealnow
12 Dec 16#6
Had one for a couple of years. With a 1tb hard drive I can record and watch the very small amount of stuff that is worth watching. There is also an app to control it. What more do you really need?
ST3123
12 Dec 161#10
Yes, youview does need an aerial to work so rules it out for some. I have nothing against Freesat, in fact I prefer it to Freeview as I like music and it has a lot more music channels, though sadly still no HD ones (they look very pixelly on a big TV). I use Freesat myself with a Humax HDR1000S 2TB PVR I got on eBay for little over £100, lovely easy to use box with great PQ. Admittedly they rarely come up that cheap but it goes to show what you can get with shopping around (and maybe a bit of luck)....
lianne21
12 Dec 16#11
Looking for free sat but just not prepared to pay 80 quid for a basic box, not worth it I don't think.
The Manhattan box is 50 but waiting for a sale to get it cheaper.
edchum to lianne21
12 Dec 16#12
The Manhattan boxes are awful, they are very slow, the humax ones are much faster. The remote is horrible though, if it were me I'd get a TV with freesat built in, also note that with this one you only need a single input, with the ones with built-in hdd, you need 2 satellite inputs as one is used for recording, the other for viewing if I understand correctly
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BBC iPlayer & ITV Player & All 4 & My5
Ethernet
HDMI & USB
emember that it needs an external USB hard drive if you want to record anything
All comments (27)
The Humax Youview freview dtr-2100 PVR is a really good, fast box and I could really do with finding a Freesat equivalent as my old original Freesat PVR is a bit clunky these days. The Youview box also blasts the Virgin Tivo out of the water on speed / GUI layout as well which isn't that unexpected given its got a new processor although Virgin do seem to shoot themselves in the foot with released firmware which slows the Tivo down.
The Manhattan box is 50 but waiting for a sale to get it cheaper.