TV recording boxes - recommendations please

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  • System
    System Posts: 178,094 Community Admin
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    Humax Direct have the YouView pvr refurbished for £139 or the 1800 freeview pvr refurbished for £109.
  • phillw
    phillw Posts: 5,594 Forumite
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    I had a BT youview box and a Talktalk youview box (at least one of them was made by humax) and they both died.

    My mum had a humax branded recorder which died, they might be the market leader but the hardware is pretty unreliable.

    Be careful if you do buy one cheap off ebay, there are a lot of youview boxes that don't have recording facility. They can pause live tv for a short time & it's easy to mistake that for being able to record programs.
  • Patrick_Stewart
    Patrick_Stewart Posts: 33 Forumite
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    So theres not an option for a replacement for the virgin box that will just use the internet? We need to watch live tv, but aerials pick up nothing where we are and we don't have a satellite dish either.
    just want a box that will do what the Virgin one does, but not for a rip off monthly contract
  • ukmike
    ukmike Posts: 751 Forumite
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    We have left Sky and changed the Dish LNB to accept Freesat
    No need to change the LNB,the sky one will work fine with freestat.
  • Mister_G
    Mister_G Posts: 1,926 Forumite
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    ukmike wrote: »
    No need to change the LNB,the sky one will work fine with freestat.

    Not if it's a new Sky Q LNB.
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