Freeview plus - is there such a thing?

Blackpool_Saver

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

I suppose these m/c's still require 2 inlets like a sky box does.....

So I would be able to record multiple programs and watch one channel while viewing another in an apartment with a communal dish? so fed up since moving here with my Sky and finding out I can't

Kurtis_Blue

Fifer wrote: »

RS sell a 500GB Humax FV+ box for £150 which is half the price of the Humax 500GB YouView box. Is £150 for catch-up TV which Sky and Freeview will be offering for free soon, good value? I get mine through a £30 Raspberry Pi running XBMC.

Yes you can by non HD boxes with no internet functionality cheaper (£159), hows that relevant?
Sky are offering nothing for free and never will.

So a Humax 500gb HD box compared to the youview would be around the £30 extra that you spent on additional hardware.

Sounds about right, this is a no brainier if you were about to buy a freeview HD PVR, the youviews are £190+vat so will be around £250-260? on amazon pretty soon.

Fifer

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

Yes you can by non HD boxes with no internet functionality cheaper (£159), hows that relevant?
Sky are offering nothing for free and never will.

Fair point, I missed the HD capability. RS take £229 for the HD version. And I should have said 'no extra charge' for Sky, but free from Freeview.

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

So a Humax 500gb HD box compared to the youview would be around the £30 extra that you spent on additional hardware.

And £40 change.

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

Sounds about right, this is a no brainier if you were about to buy a freeview HD PVR, the youviews are £190+vat so will be around £250-260? on amazon pretty soon.

I suspect they'll be much cheaper than that fairly soon. I can't see why anyone would buy one for any more than the standard Freeview+ HD box when they get catch-up capability.

almillar

Blackpool_Saver - NO! You need to remember the difference between Freeview and Freesat. You say you have a communal dish - that points at a satellite. FreeVIEW boxes connect to an aerial.
SATELLITE signals (Sky or Freesat) need one cable per channel being watched/recorded, Freeview doesn't.
YOU can buy a Freesat box, connect it to your single feed, and record ONE AT A TIME, but you can't watch something else on it at the same time.

penrhyn

RS means Radio Spares to me, getting old.:D

Fifer

penrhyn wrote: »

RS means Radio Spares to me, getting old.:D

Me too I'm afraid. I remember when it was just the one catalogue too ...

penrhyn

Yes and every you needed was in it, we always looked forward to the visit from the RS man with his new bits and bobs.