Humax Foxsat HDR

savemoney

The picture so I been told by a satellite engineer is better on Humax than sky HD so he told me when mine was set up

savemoney

I use mine every day I could do with a bigger HD as I like to record some HD content which eats into the storage, I think tbh they would have been better adding a 500gb hd and wouldn't add much more to price but woudl push it over the £300 mark which is probably why they did it

Leopard

Have yet to wade through its manual in full :coffee: - so, please correct me if I'm wrong - but as I understand it one can use its USB2 port to archive content off on to an external hard drive?

I'd also be interested to know how large an internal hard drive it can actually address (but am, nonetheless, not anxious to break its seal and thereby void its warranty until that's expired).

S0litaire

Leopard wrote: »

Have yet to wade through its manual in full :coffee: - so, please correct me if I'm wrong - but as I understand it one can use its USB2 port to archive content off on to an external hard drive?

I'd also be interested to know how large an internal hard drive it can actually address (but am, nonetheless, not anxious to break its seal and thereby void its warranty until that's expired).

Off the top of my head you can stick any External USB drive and archive the recordings.

As for internal HDD size, think it uses FAT 32 format (not sure, not read the Manual myself!!) So what ever size drive you can get it should handle!

jonty5

gjchester wrote: »

When I called them...

John Lewis say they expect stock on the 13th, but said this does keep moving back

Humax say stock is not due to get to the UK until the 19th and it will *ALL* go into retail not the Humax direct store.

Keep an eye on this site

http://www.humaxfoxsat.co.uk

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almillar

I got mine (the last one) from Argos Ross's Court, Belfast. There were some in other Argos stores so check them all.
As has been said above, this will directly replace a Sky+ or Sky+HD box, just unplug and replug. I took the Sky trial for £75 installation and cancelled after 4 months, cheaper than the £80 to install Freesat.
BBC HD is excellent. When you do get it, you may want to format the drive - it has 2 partitions, the big main one for video, and a smaller one for photos& music. When you format it you can change the size of the partitions and squeeze the photo partition down to 1GB, leaving more space for what it's meant to be used for. Best do this now, so you don't have to wipe all your recordings.
Also, don't forget about the non-freesat channels that you can also receive. Do a manual tune to get them all (do this BEFORE setting anything to record, as it wipes your schedule). This gets you the Luxe HD channel which looks very impressive. No good programmes but very pretty!
Still getting used to mine but very pleased after upgrading from my Pace Twin Freeview recorder.
HTH

gjchester

If anyone wants one I have a reservation at Epping for one till tommorow night (Tuesday 3rd) You can have the reservation code for free, just PM me.
Why? Well I can't get due to Snow and John Lewis phoned today to say they had finally got me one (Been waiting almost a month) and I have John Lewis vouvhers from my mum to use up.

david29dpo

Why dont sky have ITV HD?

gjchester

david29dpo wrote: »

Why dont sky have ITV HD?

Because it's exclusive to Freesat, in the same way Freesat don't have C4 HD because thats exclusive to Sky. Freesat is a BBC/ITV joint venture, so having it exclusive to Freesat means they have some marketing advantages.

I suspect C4HD will come to Freesat sometime in 2009, but ITV HD may take a long time to get to Sky.

ITV HD is not a full time channel though it's only on a various times in the week, usually just a few hours at the moment.