Best deals for Freesat

macman

almillar wrote: »

Very worthwhile connecting ANY Freesat box (it's part of the Freesat spec to have a LAN port) to your broadband connection. The iPlayer integration is great, and you're watching it all on your TV, not hunched over a laptop. Other channels' stuff is coming soon. At the moment, iPlayer only works on Humax boxes...

Not according to the Freesat site:
http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=iPlayer.WhatYouNeedProduct
OP, you might not want HD now, but in a couple of years (or less) your CRT might indeed go bang. In which case you will have to buy an HD ready TV, so you might as well future proof now and get an HD-Freesat box, even if it isn't the Humax.
You'll be paying around £100 for the dish and install anyway, so then skimping on a obsolete £30 SD box does not make sense to me.

Katie-Kat-Kins

Ah thanks macman, the link says iplayer only works with HD boxes so I guess that is the way forward. And as you say it is a bit of future proofing too.

Might have known that this would all start getting expensive when I looked into it further!!!!

So now it is best deals on a FreesatHD box then.......

macman

Here you are:
http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/product.asp?ProdRef=10070

Katie-Kat-Kins

macman wrote: »

Here you are:
http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/product.asp?ProdRef=10070

Hmm seems a pretty decent price even compared to the cheaper brands. Thanks

almillar

Thanks for that Macman, it's been opened up to some other kit then. It started as Humax only. Still doesn't work on my Panasonic TV yet...

flashy

it might be useful, but look on ebay for your dish/cabling, its far cheaper. Theres a seller on there selling a twin output HD dish, all the cabling and clips with the mount for about £25.

You just then need to get a Freesat receiver.

Regards

Katie-Kat-Kins

Oh that might be worth considering, I'll have to call some installers and see what deals they will offer and whether it works better to get the dish myself.

penrhyn

hi which transmitter are you on?

Inactive

flashy wrote: »

it might be useful, but look on ebay for your dish/cabling, its far cheaper. Theres a seller on there selling a twin output HD dish, all the cabling and clips with the mount for about £25.

You just then need to get a Freesat receiver.

Regards

HaHaHa, a " twin output HD dish ", that made me laugh...:rotfl:

No such thing as a HD Dish.;)

penrhyn

You'll be saying there is no such thing as a digital aerial next.:D