I did the same a few months ago....got rid of Sky and went with this box...one of the best decisions i have made. If you had sky before just insert you old sky cable into the box and press auto setup.Easy as pie!

Thanks! I just bought my second one of these thanks to this. I love the box but only one complaint-it takes forever to power on each time I switch it on.

I have an HDR 1000S, but stopped using it when a common problem of the internal HDD not being recognised surfaced. I immediately went out and bought a Zgemma H2S (and added Wooshbuild with a Sky Q-lookalike skin) which I much prefer, though it is a bit technical to set up (Wooshbuild makes it a lot easier). Love that the Zgemma has an excellent Web interface and that you can indeed copy recorded HD programmes off it (a terrible, terrible restriction of all Freeview/Freesat recorders). Also relieved that it has no internal hard drive - just slap a decent capacity external USB stick/drive on it and away you go - if that goes wrong, just swap in a fresh stick/drive.

Back in stock

Back in stock and ordered this morning. Leaving sky in a couple of weeks!

Ignoring the channel line up, how does this Freesat box compare with the youview dtr-t2100? I've been very impressed with the latter and it's just had a major interface update however this time of year leaves grow on the trees and my freeview signal is quite bad. Has the original Freesat humax PVR and it was quite slow with a poor interface compared to today's equivalent. So does anyone know what these are like and whether humax have out what's its leant from youview into these Freesat boxes?

Now out of stock when you try to check out

Or £3.20 or even £6.40 depending on how you chose to spend them.

I have both the old and this freesat box. The interface on the new one is much better and it doesn't take forever to delete a programme like the old one. The only disappointment for me is that despite making the box much smaller and removing the power supply from inside the box to inline on the power lead, it gets much hotter than the old one and occasionally gets scrambled, which clears on reboot. I do have it in a cabinet but it is now propped up at an angle to keep it cool!

Whilst the above is true ideally you want TWO cables from your dish to the two sockets on the box, so that you can record one channel whilst watching another or record two channels at the same time. You may need a new LNB for this but cheap and easy to switch.

Doesn't work if you have SKY Q as they change the LNB on the dish.

Great! Have just ordered one.
Heat added. Thanks op.

I have a white 1010s 1tb if anyone is interested in buying it....

What is 160 clubcard points actually worth?

Yes, unscrew from one box screw into other box and everything should work fine.

Yes

A question here please. If I have a sky box, will I be able to use the same wire/cable which runs from the dish to sky box? Thanks in advance

Good spot always nomally retail at £179 so purchased. Used up £8 old clubcard vouchers also sitting in my account that were unused from last year so came in at £151 in the end.
If buying make sure you register for an extra years warranty in 1 month of purchase with humax (probably only for new not refurbs)

You could have just paid sky £20 for their free sat card lol :laughing:

I went this route 2 years ago and with a combination of buying nowtv boxes cheap at argos I have saved an absolute fortune by leaving SKY. Only negative is the freesat box can be slow on startup and its interface is not as good as SKY but compared to staying with SKY and paying £20 per months for NON HD channels I decided to go the FREESAT route. Only other negative there are not many HD channels on FREESAT and the non HD channels have serious ghosting despite showing excellent signal strength? Spend most of my time watching Hardcore Pawn and Pawn Stars anyway!

For anyone that owns one can you control the TV's volume the same way you can with sky? Used to have a freesat box and it was so annoying setting a volume level for the box rather than the tv.

Wot no Dave? No endless repeats of (proper) Top Gear & QI. I think I'll be sticking with Freeview.

Will it receive free to air channels?

Just checked, spend £500 to get a fiver!!!!
The joy here is similar to their fruit, doesn't last long !P

Ok. It's not £20 a month it's a one off. Actually, when you leave they convert the main card to freeway for free. You are right about the recording feature though.

I told SKY I was planning on getting one of these boxes and they let me keep the ability to record free to air on my SKY box, so well chuffed.
Gues they want to keep in well with me. I get broadband from them still.

Try searching for 'Best TV Recorder to buy so I can ditch sky' on HotUKDeals as that URL would not work.

Thanks OP I have a 5 Year old Humax Freesat and would reccomend Freesat and Humax to everyone No probs at all and I am able to record 2 channels and watch a pre-recorded program at the same time.

Also see this thread for a cheaper alternative, I went for this one because of the long cex warranty - no wifi but that's it!

http:/****/2rM6skj

Warning don't use the freetime app or you run the risk of losing all recordings and not being able to record/pause tv etc. Massive issues for humax which they denied last year.

My local Tesco Extra have one of these in the clearance for £132.50. I have the previous model otherwise would have bought the one locally.

I did the same a few months ago....got rid of Sky and went with this box...one of the best decisions i have made. If you had sky before just insert you old sky cable into the box and press auto setup.Easy as pie!

I have an earlier model, it's running faultlessly and in three separate homes. Some Freeview channels in HD are not so on Freesat and vice versa btw.

So is it like a freeview box just with record function? What channels do you get and will you need a satellite dish? Sorry to ask but iam interested

Refurbished £149 with warranty from Humax Direct FWIW.

Cheers

110 used in CEX once in stock if you don't mind buying used