A couple more blunders:
Sadly the one feature missing that any Sky+ user will miss is the series link feature, one that would let us record our favourites like Dragons Den or the West Wing automatically each week. This is due to the Freeview EPG not having the series link data rather than Humax not implementing it, so for now you have to scoot through the EPG a week at a time and tag the next episode manually.
Why not set a weekly timer?
Images are compressed and you can see this but even full screen on our 26" LCD screen he recordings were quite good and very watchable.
No they're not! The Humax records exactly what gets transmitted, with no extra compression.