Recordable freeview hd boxes

Amanda4242

Thanks for that and what would the box of choice be for a recordable freeview or freesat but NOT HD?

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

Humax branded stuff usually fair quite well in reviews. I couldn't comment on other brands though.

almillar

Since you have all the wiring required (2 sat inputs) the simplets, and cheap way to do it would be to rip out the Sky box and put in a Humax Foxsat HDR box. £240 or probably less by now. This is a HD Freesat recorder with similar features to SkyHD. You haven't stated whether your area is receiving FreeviewHD yet (I won't get it until 2012) so you would want to check that Freeview-wise. Also Freeview is very limited in bandwidth and (in my opinion, and based on no hard facts) Freesat will probably end up with more HD channels. Also has BBC iPlayer on it if you connect it to your broadband connection, and other online TV stuff coming soon.
No such thing as an SD Freesat recorder, only basic non-recording boxes, and there are loads of non-HD Freeview boxes for £100 or less.

Amanda4242

almillar wrote: »

Since you have all the wiring required (2 sat inputs) the simplets, and cheap way to do it would be to rip out the Sky box and put in a Humax Foxsat HDR box. £240 or probably less by now. This is a HD Freesat recorder with similar features to SkyHD. You haven't stated whether your area is receiving FreeviewHD yet (I won't get it until 2012) so you would want to check that Freeview-wise. Also Freeview is very limited in bandwidth and (in my opinion, and based on no hard facts) Freesat will probably end up with more HD channels. Also has BBC iPlayer on it if you connect it to your broadband connection, and other online TV stuff coming soon.
No such thing as an SD Freesat recorder, only basic non-recording boxes, and there are loads of non-HD Freeview boxes for £100 or less.

Thanks. I can recieve freeviewHD as I live in Birmingham and have just checked online.
So what is the difference between freeVIEW and freeSAT? Now I'm confused as I thought they were basically the same thing?

Inactive

Amanda4242 wrote: »

Thanks. I can recieve freeviewHD as I live in Birmingham and have just checked online.
So what is the difference between freeVIEW and freeSAT? Now I'm confused as I thought they were basically the same thing?

Different channel line up, more channels on Freesat, but mainly rubbish.

I far prefer Freeview.

Amanda4242

Thanks for all your help

scotsbob

You can compare all available Freeview HD receivers side by side on this comparison site

http://www.pvrjunction.co.uk/resources/compare-freeviewhd-pvrs/

The non HD are here

http://www.pvrjunction.co.uk/resources/compare-freeview-pvrs/

Humax and Topfield regularly feature in best buy tables and especially the Topfield because there are literally 100s of Apps available for it for free which allows you to customise it.

You should also be aware that Humax and Topfield are selling off receivers at discounts rates just now and that usually indicates new models are about to be released onto the market.

lucylucky

Amanda4242 wrote: »

Thanks. I can recieve freeviewHD as I live in Birmingham and have just checked online.
So what is the difference between freeVIEW and freeSAT? Now I'm confused as I thought they were basically the same thing?

Freeview - received by means of aerial

Freesat - received by means of a dish

Idiophreak

I've used Humax PVRs for both freeview and freesat and can heartily recommend both, personally I prefer Freesat for the HD-ness (and I think it's only an extra £50 or so), but both are great bits of kit.

almillar

OK Amanda, so computer says 'yes' but do you have an aerial?! And have you checked your Freeview signal through it. As long as you can get all the channels on an SD Freeview box, HD will be fine too. It's all just 1s and 0s going into the aerial (sort of!).