I received my Humax Foxsast HDR at last and after
a few days of experimenting I can definitely recommend it as a wonderful receiver.
It only took me ten minutes to get it up and running without any hitches or problems.
Here are some of my main impressions so far.
The EPG is outstanding; it's pleasing to the eye and packed with useful and intuitive features that are miles ahead of Sky's EPG. IMO.
A full seven days guide for radio stations (including Irish stations, RTE1, 2FM, Lyric and Radio na Gaeltachta) is another nice feature.
I am using a loop through cable which gives me limited dual tuner functionality and again this is another big advantage over Sky boxes.
Recording to the hard drive is easy and the stored recordings offer a wonderful array of helpful features.
The HD pictures on my Panasonic Viera LXD700 from BBC are absolutely stunning - looking forward to the rugby in HD this afternoon.
And now for the downside. As many posters have already mentioned the SD picture quality is disappointing I also have a German-made TechniSat Digicorder S1 (six years old!) and its SD pictures on all channels are far superior.
Humax are definitely going to have to do something about this as it is a blot on an otherwise superior receiver.
In the meantime, well done Humax and Freesat. All I need now is for RTE to live up to its public service obligations and add its TV services to Freesat.
a few days of experimenting I can definitely recommend it as a wonderful receiver.
It only took me ten minutes to get it up and running without any hitches or problems.
Here are some of my main impressions so far.
The EPG is outstanding; it's pleasing to the eye and packed with useful and intuitive features that are miles ahead of Sky's EPG. IMO.
A full seven days guide for radio stations (including Irish stations, RTE1, 2FM, Lyric and Radio na Gaeltachta) is another nice feature.
I am using a loop through cable which gives me limited dual tuner functionality and again this is another big advantage over Sky boxes.
Recording to the hard drive is easy and the stored recordings offer a wonderful array of helpful features.
The HD pictures on my Panasonic Viera LXD700 from BBC are absolutely stunning - looking forward to the rugby in HD this afternoon.
And now for the downside. As many posters have already mentioned the SD picture quality is disappointing I also have a German-made TechniSat Digicorder S1 (six years old!) and its SD pictures on all channels are far superior.
Humax are definitely going to have to do something about this as it is a blot on an otherwise superior receiver.
In the meantime, well done Humax and Freesat. All I need now is for RTE to live up to its public service obligations and add its TV services to Freesat.



