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HUMAX Foxsat HDR or SKY+ HD
I currently have SKY+ and want to upgrade to HD since I have an HD TV. I don't watch a lot of Sky, so am reluctant to take their offering for an extra £10 a month, so I am considering the Humax Foxsat HDR.
I've looked at what's on Freesat and have noticed that Sky News and Sky Sports News are not available. Is it possible to pick these up with the Humax? Still not sure whether to go Freesat, Sky+ HD or do nothing! Any advice appreciated. |
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You can get Sky News OK as it's available in non freesat mode, but Sky Sports News is not FTA so it's a no no. (Needs a Sky viewing card on satellite but it's free on Freeview)
Recording is of course free on freesat so no subscription required to record anything. |
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Sorry for being a bit thick, but how does "non-freesat" mode work?
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Sorry for being a bit thick, but how does "non-freesat" mode work?
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Sorry for being a bit thick, but how does "non-freesat" mode work?
![]() To set up non freesat MENU/SETUP/MANUAL TUNE. Leave the default settings and click search. In about 10mins you will have a list of around 450 radio and tv stations. (including 1 extra HD channel Luxe HD). If you now goto Menu/Settings you have an extra item STB Mode, yours will now say Non Freesat, to return to Freesat mode simply change the menu option |
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You'll get more HD on Sky of course but then again the situation is changing all the time with Dave, Fiver, Five US, Ch4HD and Five HD all rumoured to be lined up to join.
Ultimately Sky will always be better for content and at £29 for a Sky HD Box (Comet) its a cheap upgrade. However, as you already pointed out to yourself there's no such thing as a free lunch and it will cost you an extra £10 per month + an existing Sky + subscription. Ever stop paying your subscriptions and go FTA and your box loses the "+" recording functionality as well as the HD. On the sports front there is no regular daily sport channel on Freesat at all. However, UEFA cup matches, FA Cup Matches, England Matches, Rugby, Wimbledon, Olympics, are all in HD when available. Most other Freesat HD is odd film on ITV 1, nature programmes on BBC HD + Antiques Roadshow + Jonathan Ross + lost of kiddies programmes. However, content is changing all the time no least since the BBC went over to 9 hours of HD per day and are currently taking feedback on programme content. Obviously if 4HD joins, then there will be a lot more film content in HD. |
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On the sports front there is no regular daily sport channel on Freesat at all.
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You'll get more HD on Sky of course but then again the situation is changing all the time with Dave, Fiver, Five US, Ch4HD and Five HD all rumoured to be lined up to join.
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No brainer really. SkyHD box is a pile of pants and after my 3rd box kept crashing with Power Failures (even in the future), usually when I was away on business or on holiday I was happy to dump it and move to the Humax Freesat+.
Reliability wise there is just no comparison and I have so far had 100% reliability with the Humax as oposed to 80% unreliability of SkyHD that needed rebooting every week! |
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The "rumour" which you have just invented you mean??
They've been around for quite a while. Some are more beleivable than others, of course. |
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If you have an HDTV, doesnt it have freeview built in? If so, use that and those 2 channels arent exactly the type youd record anyway.
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No brainer really. SkyHD box is a pile of pants and after my 3rd box kept crashing with Power Failures (even in the future), usually when I was away on business or on holiday I was happy to dump it and move to the Humax Freesat+.
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Whereas my SKy+HD STB is coming up to 2 years old in June with zero problems!
Most people I know with Sky have had to have a box replaced at least once. |
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That's quite uncommon, though.
Most people I know with Sky have had to have a box replaced at least once. And the 1Tb HDD (which I installed!) also gives an effective VOD service - as I always have stuff recorded which I need to get around to watching! |
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Ultimately Sky will always be better for content and at £29 for a Sky HD Box (Comet) its a cheap upgrade. However, as you already pointed out to yourself there's no such thing as a free lunch and it will cost you an extra £10 per month + an existing Sky + subscription. Ever stop paying your subscriptions and go FTA and your box loses the "+" recording functionality as well as the HD.
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Rubbish you can still view BBC HD, channel 4 HD, Luxe HD and soon ITV HD (when new software is finally on all Sky HD boxes). More than you can receive at present with a freesat box.
A such we are interested in PVR's. You cannot use a Sky PVR without paying a subscription of some kind. End of story. |
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Rubbish you can still view BBC HD, channel 4 HD, Luxe HD and soon ITV HD (when new software is finally on all Sky HD boxes). More than you can receive at present with a freesat box.
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The whole point was that you can't record them without paying for the priviledge
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That's quite uncommon, though.
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Most people I know with Sky have had to have a box replaced at least once. We're a major ASA, and the failure rate on even the poor Thomson HD boxes is still low, Pace boxes so far have been 100% reliable, and Samsung have had one 'failure' - an intermittently noisely fan. However, other than the Thomson boxes, HD boxes haven't been out long enough for poor reliability to appear (including the Humax ones). |
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We're a major ASA,
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and the failure rate on even the poor Thomson HD boxes is still low, Pace boxes so far have been 100% reliable, and Samsung have had one 'failure' - an intermittently noisely fan. However, other than the Thomson boxes, HD boxes haven't been out long enough for poor reliability to appear (including the Humax ones).
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While true - that's NOT what white-knight actually said!
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It is what the OP asked for though. He did not want to pay to record so any post requiring a subscription is strictly speaking a little off topic
It makes Sky and its fanbase seem pretty desperate when they feel the need to make off topic posts where no one (other than themselves) is in the least interested. |
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Sky seem to have stepped up their patrols on this forum today.
It makes Sky and its fanbase seem pretty desperate when they feel the need to make off topic posts where no one (other than themselves) is in the least interested. |
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I did say yesterday that these Sky boys bite easily, and dont they just!
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Yet they spend most of their time in the Freesat forum
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