Having owned a Humax 9200 Freeview pvr for over 3 years now I'm about to purchase their Freesat PVR (as soon as I can find one!). While using the 9200 epg I can continue to see and hear the program I am watching. The program guide appears in the bottom half of the screen, and I can navigate around it while the top left of the screen shows info about the program highlighted in the guide.
I used to have a Sony CRT IDTV which had a similar excellent program guide.
I've just changed to a Philips full HD LCD TV, which has excellent picture and sound but awful epg (Philips, you should be ashamed of yourselves, its a disgrace!!) When the guide is selected, it fills the whole screen and you can't even hear the program sound. As for navigating round it or seeing program information, don't even ask !!!
Because the Philips epg is so useless, I watch everything throught the Humax.

So, is the epg on the Foxsat HDR similar to the 9200 ? Can I still see and hear the program I am watching when I select the guide?

PS: From what I've seen, the Sky epg is almost as bad as the Philips. Do they have any plans to upgrade to anything better?

When you press the guide button on the HDR it fills the screen and you can't see or hear the current programme for a minute or so while it updates the EPG.

Then it goes transparent and the sound comes back on.

However, if you press the schedule button instead of guide, and then press the red button, you get the guide in transparent mode with sound without the latest EPG update.

The degree of transparency is user defined in the settings

is there anyone who can like, take a photo of the Freesat EPG and upload it somewhere for us "potential" viewers to see if it rocks (like Skys EPG) or fails (like "Virgin Media's" EPG)

Thanks.

All you need is here: http://foxsat-hdr.wikispaces.com/

The Sky epg "rocks" ????

It's awful compared to the Sony or the old freeview Humax, for all the reasons I outlined above. Who on earth wants to interrupt the program they are watching every time they check whats on another channel?

And the search function on Sky is rubbish. On the old freeview humax you can type in the whole title of a program and it'll find it.

Is the search on the Foxsat HDR as good as on the old 9200?