What a machine!

Plugged it sat cables

Plugged in wall (and turned on!)

followed set up guide, easy step by step...

and now can, pause, rewind fast foward live TV, Record Programme and start to watch it before it's finished recording, record whole series from click of button, get BBC HD (even though not got HD Ready TV)

And... delete channels I don't want...control TV from same remote........copy SD to USB stick for archiving / burning to DVD....and now with excellent got AV2HDR programme can watch stuff from PC on telly...best 250 quid ever spent!!

I take it you are happy with it then?

Well, yes, I mean, it just works!!, how many times can you say that about a piece of electronic Kit?

I bought one last Sunday. As yet I haven't had time to set it up.

Roll on the weekend.

Erm, most of the time, actually.

That is what one should assume would happen with consumer electronics.

What exactly were you expecting?

Good to see someone who, like most HDR owners, is happy. Hope Bob_Cat reads this, it will make his day!!

"Does what it says on the tin" as they say in the adverts!!

Hope you have many happy hours watching your favourites staceydsf.

In your praise for this superb machine you forgot to mention:

"Record 2 programmes/channels at the same time" but then there are so many positives it isn't possible to list them all.

Mikembe

Someone to bite...??


Patrick

I wholeheartedly agree. The machine is marvellous and I love it.

My God! What a breath of fresh air. Couldn't agree with you more. It wasn't until I stumbled onto this forum that I found anything wrong with it except for the hidden plastic screen on the remote receiver which DS solved for me.

Great piece of kit, particularly with a 1TB drive.

Dave

Better still with a1Tb drive and a second external 1Tb archive usb drive now that replay of archived BBC HD can be done over USB.

Yes - I agree, bought one last week and it's absolutely fantastic. Especially as my previous (Heath Robinson) set up was -

1. Sky box (Freesatfromsky) to TV
2. Bush HD Freesat box () to DVD recorder and TV via HDMI cable
3. DVD through Sky box via scart

No more switching boxes to change the channel to the one to be recorded, and then set the DVD to record.

What a breath of fresh air this thread as.
Nearly all agreeing, that it's a great product.

Yes, I agree.

I'm a bit new to this Sat PVR stuff, and understand that the box can also go into "non-freesat mode" and behave as a standard free to air box, but for the most of us we just want to be able to record TV with whistles, without the hassle of bad freeview signals and a monthly charge to watch free to air TV in HD........although I may just dabble with the diseqc motor sat dish one day

"Fast forward live TV" Are you the Doctor?

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

I liked my HUMAX HDR untill i got the sagem pvr yesterday and seen how much better SD and HD look via the sagem freesat pvr sorry but the humax can not touch the sagem for video quality.

What is it like for usability?

I have not have a lot of time to use it but i have tried always to make it crash and set a load of recordings to try to confuse it but it has been fine

[SNIGGER]No, he's the mad scientist from Paradox.

The Doctor would never cross his own time-line - he might accidentally see one of his own future adventures and disappear up his own time vortex.[/SNIGGER]

Gadget

Interesting. All boxes should look substantially the same. They either decode MPEG properly, or they don't. It's a standard - you can't "improve" the decoding - just the encoding - and only the broadcasters have control over that part!

Yet the picture from our Freesat box looks far sharper, cleaner, and less "blown out" than the picture from our old Sky box.

I think the Sky box was boosting the contrast (even when set not to), and the Freesat box is trying to filter out from of the MPEG artefacts. Just guessing.

Interested if the Sagem box can really do this even better - hard to believe, given the intrinsic low picture quality of most of the channel as-broadcast on satellite.

Cheers,
David.

Glad to see there's a thread with some positive comments.

I'll add my name to the list of happy customers who've bought a Freesat Humax HDR.

For me it's like Sky Plus but with all the restrictions removed (meaning I can watch German TV without having to have two satellite recievers. I don't have to pay or subscribe to anything just to be able to record something. I can copy stuff to a USB stick. I don't have the "Series Link information is not available, please try later" message. I can remove the channels I don't want and I can decide what BBC/ITV regions I want).

I could go on with my list...

I have had mine for months and have always loved it. Since the update, its got more features to use and still a great product. Roll on the BBC iplayer!!!

One word of advice - don't delete all of the BBC regional variants, sometimes it helps to have a couple when you are recording two other programs and want to watch BBC 1 - this is because some of the regional variants are on different frequency/polarty to my "home" BBC1. So before deleting them all check which BBC1 you have and keep one of the variants on a different frequency.

Of course they can better quality components and so on have you seen how poor the video quality is of the havard HD freesat boxes to a humax foxsat-hd the humax is better but the technisat freesat box is even better,

So you are telling me you think every satellite receiver outputs the same audio and video quality i do not think so the same would go with bluray or dvd a £15 dvd player would not be as good as a £400 player same goes for blu-ray a £80 player would not be as good as i £600 player,

I do not care about hard to believe the sagem is better but to me it is i just switched between bbc1 london on humax and sagem as you can see how much more detail there is via the sagem both the humax foxsat-HD and HDR and known for the poor SD quality video just search this forum even humax has said and knows about the poor sd video for there receivers,

Try ITV 1 West Country either by using non freesat mode (10832 H 22000 5/6) or by changing your postcode to EX2 2JN, Its the best ITV 1 picture you can get on any platform

I changed my postcode to get this and the ITV1 picture really is much better (I had ITV1 London before)

I don't care for the adverts or the regional news though.