Humax foxstat freestat hd box

snapyou

penrhyn wrote: »

No, you have to pay Sky £10.25 / month to activate the recording facility.

Thanks,is this ALL free to air channels e.g. BBC HD/4 HD?

penrhyn

Assuming you have a Sky+HD box, anything you can view you can record.

Aletank

penrhyn wrote: »

Assuming you have a Sky+HD box, anything you can view you can record.

Is that without paying the £10.25 monthly charge ?

snapyou

Aletank wrote: »

Is that without paying the £10.25 monthly charge ?

no,you have to pay that to use the recording function

kevin52

Buy a Freesat PVR and save yourself £10.25 a month.

[Deleted User]

Hi, Thanks for all the help, we have now moved and I have the old sky box connected to the kitchen TV and the Humax on the sitting room TV. I just have to get to grips with the functions now. Cost me an arm and a leg for the installation but no probs, just for OH to be able to record programmes without having to pay tyhe sky fee is worth it and the box will have paid for itself within a year.

We are very pleased with the box, brill.........wonderful help, as usual from you lot.

macman

What installation? You just swap the Sky box for the Hummy.

djohn2002uk

macman wrote: »

What installation? You just swap the Sky box for the Hummy.

Read post #1, they had to have the dish installed.

macman

djohn2002uk wrote: »

Read post #1, they had to have the dish installed.

No, the OP said 'out of contract with Sky, how much to have the box fitted to the dish'?
The dish was already in place.

[Deleted User]

Nope the dish was not in place we have moved house and as I paid for the sky dish in the first place I decided to have it moved, which they did on Tuesday, both TV's connected and tested and away we go. I just have to teach OH how to use the control for the Humax so he can record programmes he wats to watch later......it took me long enough to get him to use the sky remote........

Whole thing went swimmingly, we have 2 TV's working, both happy.

It is great that we can get advice here and help in deciding what to do. I am glad I went with the freestat box rather than freeview which was the way we were going to go. I stuck to my original choice for the box, just could not afford to go the extra mile for the box with the addition disc space. We should be ok OH tends to watch recorded programmes fairly quickly.