help!!! sky or talk talk? anyone got talk talk tv?

MrsE_2

http://www.freesat.co.uk/get-freesat/freesat-plus/236662

MrsE_2

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=321180872238&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en

This looks like a great price?

MrsE_2

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sandstrom-Freesat-HD-Twin-Tuner-Recorder-SHDFSAT12-500GB-/301017016426?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Satellite_TV_Receivers&hash=item461603286a

VisionMan

MrsE wrote: »

http://www.freesat.co.uk/get-freesat/freesat-plus/236662

If your going to go the Freesat route, I would recommend a Humax box, as they are rated as the best box manufacturer out there. But you have to pay up front.

If you go via the TalkTalk YouView route, it's an 18mth month contract at £15.50 a mth (plus line rental) but its a buy-as-you-rent scheme. So after the contract period expires, the box is yours to keep and will continue to fully function too.

So it all depends on what you want.

MrsE_2

VisionMan wrote: »

If your going to go the Freesat route, I would recommend a Humax box, as they are rated as the best box manufacturer out there. But you have to pay up front.

If you go via the TalkTalk YouView route, it's an 18mth month contract at £15.50 a mth (plus line rental) but its a buy-as-you-rent scheme. So after the contract period expires, the box is yours to keep and will continue to fully function too.

So it all depends on what you want.

Thats pretty good. How much would that box cost me? Its only £8 per month more, so if its more than 18 × £8 = £152, then thats a great deal.
After 18 months I could cut down to the £7.50 deal.

My ariel has been cut off prematurely, so I would have to reconnect the last 10 foot & buy another powerlink adapter as I use mine for the desktop pc at the moment.

MrsE_2

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HUMAX-FOXSAT-HDR-320-GB-DVR-Freesat-TWIN-TUNER-HD-RECORDER-/261329477347?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Satellite_TV_Receivers&hash=item3cd8735ee3

blisteringblue

Personally, you've done the hard part of moving your broadband to Talk Talk. £8 a month for a youview box is a good deal imho. I just paid £159 for a "graded" Humax Freetime Freesat, direct from humaxdirect. So the price point for either version is about the same. (A brand new Freesat Freetime is over £200 mind you, I've taken a chance on a graded product). It depends if you would miss £8 a month more than £200 up front I guess.

System

Humax have the Youview STB Grade A for £150 if you want to just pay up front and not change your contract.

http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/product.asp?ProdRef=10210

1TB is £10 more

teddysmum

Richer Sounds have a Humax Freetime box for £99.

We have had three brands of PVR and the two current Humax are , by far , the best, having lasted much longer.

blisteringblue

teddysmum wrote: »

Richer Sounds have a Humax Freetime box for £99.

That is the new Freetime Player, there is no PVR facility with that model.