Having had the opportunity to get familiar with a Humax Youview box (yes I know its Freeview!) I am in a dilemma as to whether to try to upgrade the software on my old Foxsat HDR to make it more user friendly, and use that for catch up tv as well! There seems to a bewildering set of files available on line to download and I have no idea which one(s) to select or how much more user friendly it will make my Foxsat? Would it be better to try to sell the Foxsat (I upgraded the HDD to 500 MB some time ago), and try to scrape the money together to go for a Humax Freetime box which should be more future proof?

The only catch up services on the Foxsat HDR are BBC iPlayer and ITV Player, This is the same as Freetime but there is no prospect of the Foxsat adding more unlike the Freetime box.

Installing the modded firmware on the Foxsat won't give you any more catch up services but it does give you a lot of other goodies. In particular I use it to allow me to set up timers for the BBC Red Button stream by defining it to look like a regular Freesat channel. Others use it to transfer recordings off to their networkd storage etc.

The Freetime box is a LOT more user friendly than the HDR, and has a far better designed remote (I've always considered is as what the HDR 'should' have been).

As Gomez pointed out, there's a lot more chance of extra catchup appearing on the Freetime box, even though I consider it a disaster it's not a YouView box (as was promised), and is likely to always only be a 'poor relative' of YouView boxes.

The whole idea of YouView was a common interface across all products to avoid the ludicrous plethora of non-compatible systems in use at the moment - Freesat deciding to bring out their own incompatible system just prolongs the mess.

Ironically the launch of BT Sports this week has thrown into sharp relief just how splintered the Youview platform is becoming.