Quite a saving on the launch RRP of £349 for anyone in the market for a slingplayer compatible Freesat Recorder

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...SIN=B004S9OT92

absolute bargain, i paid £349 for my first one and £299 for my second one, i have a good mine to ring up an complain.

this is easily the best freesat box out there, so grab them now before they go up again.

As I have a trip in a couple of weeks I bought mine from John Lewis a week or so ago for a bit more.

The machine is wonderful. I wanted to test the slingbox functions and couldn't be bothered to go to Wetherspoons to use the wifi and called their customer service. They're in Amsterdam and immediately agreed to test it. He told me what was on each channel. Great service.

I have full Sky and if it wasn't for Atlantic we'd jack it in and save £74 per month.

Ive had a humax hdr for 2 years, have one of these slingboxes coming today from amazon, will see how it goes

From what ive read from other owners who have had both,the menus are a lot better and a lot speedier.

http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/index.p...-bargain-price

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/echo...1117722?page=1

Mine came today, love the look of it, nice build quality

Few niggles, when recording two channels at the same time, you cant flick between the two by pressing down on the remote, you have to go to the guide and press on either one.

Also when pressing guide, no option to get rid of the categories, so it takes two presses to get to all channels

Something you can do on the humax, im sure echostar could sort these easily.

Did you update to the latest software?

Yes, it updated within 5 minutes of being on, on 119R

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I got my Echostar yesterday via Amazon, bit of a faff as it was guaranteed to be delivered before 1pm on Monday and rocked up at half ten on Tuesday morning, got my shipping costs back after speaking to customer services.

Plugged box in, it started up and updated and have had no issues. Picture quality is great even on the SD channels, way better than they were on Sky. A good purchase at this price and way faster to do everything than my mate's Humax Foxsat HDR.

ive noticed the buzz when in standby, its not silent, like the hard drive is turning, the humax was silent, read somebody elses comment about the noise as well

Not good if you use it in your bedroom

Any recorder that does not spin down the hard disk in standby is immediately off my Christmas list.

seems theres a power mode option, ive ticked that, its meant to sort it

Thats right, but in this mode I don't think you can't use the sling functionality and it also takes longer to start up. Neither of these things may bother you. Mine is admittedly in the living room, but is practially silent so the longer startup time bothered me more than the fan noise.

I've just bought one to replace my main sky+ box. I just couldn't wait any longer for Humax to update their slow box (which I also have).

My first observation - if you watch the slingbox on your PC - does it go via the internet (WAN), even when it's on the same network (LAN)? - because it says my video speed is 8MB, which is my WAN speed, not my LAN speed.

Now gone up by £10.

Wrong! its come down £10, was £198 yesterday

Had a few missed recording with mine recently, countdown yesterday, daybreak and bbc breakfast this morning.

Also when its records daybreak and breakfast, then when its meant to do lorraine straight afterwards, it doesnt record lorraine, but it does the one on itv+1 , bonkers!!!!

Have you updated to the latest firmware 121R released at the end of January, it hasn't been transmitted over air yet? If you have you need to tell Echostar about any problems you are still having with it.

Yes , updated the day it was released., also bad lipsync issues, done a few factory resets, still same.

Same as with the humax, these boxes arent perfect ,but 99% of the time they are brilliant,

Does this stb have a non-freesat mode,where you can access non-freesat channels or even other satellites?
Thanks.

Trying the Echostar before I decide to sell my Samsung SMT-S7800.Pleased with the unit so far apart from having to pump the volume up,far beyond what I did with the Samsung.Tried different settings to no avail.Any ideas?