Hi

Newbie to forum, but would appreciate some of the technical expertise available here: after a long wait I have finally been able to secure a Humax Foxsat PVR from JL, and will get it on Tuesday. It is to replace my Sky+ box which is going with the subscription to $ky on the same day

My question is - are the connections for the Humax box roughly the same as the Sky+ one? On the Sky+ box I have twin satellite feeds, power cable, scart cable, optical cable (to amp) and telephone line. I assume for the Humax box, when it arrives, I will use the same twin satellite feed (same connections?), the HDMI lead to the TV, an optical connection for the amp and so on....??

So I suppose what i am saying - in a long winded way - is the Humax box simple to set up in a similar way to the Sky box was, or will I need a technician?

Thanks

d.k.E.

The three most significant connection differences are

- The HDR does not have a telephone connection. It's not needed.
- The HDR does not have a UHF output for distributing TV to other rooms. If you want this, there are various solutions available using external kit. Have a look around this forum for them.
- The HDR does have an ethernet connection. Use of it is optional, in fact there is nothing you can do with it at present. It will be used in the future for such things as BBC iPlayer and possibly for other features that many members of this forum eagerly await news of.

Everthing else is pretty much the same. You should not need a technician.

It's the same as the sky box, there's no phone line connection though

In short 11mm spanner to undo the 2 lnb cables and connect to the foxsat, optical s/pdif to send digital sound to an av amp, a hdmi connection to the TV for HD content, you might want to try also connecting a rgb scart to the foxsat TV scart for viewing SD (there is a school of thought that due to implementation of noise reduction on the hdmi that SD pictures look better from the scart make up your own mind on this one)

Plug in, switch on follow the on screen instructions and input your post code to set your local regions to 101, 102 and 103.

That's it - enjoy

One small afterthought the hard disc comes partitioned with rather a large amount of space for music and photos. If you don't need all this you can reduce the music/photo area to 1Gb by reformatting both partitions from the memory giving yourself more space for video. You need to do this before recording anything as reformatting wipes your recordings
Last edited by grahamlthompson : 22-02-2009 at 16:41

Good tip this, Graham, for a first time starter. I didn't realise this at first, and then had to do an HDD format, after quickly watching everything I had recorded, before other recordings were due to start; I just don't need that space for photos/music, etc.

Although it does wipe recordings, it dores not delete scheduled timers.

Les.