Freeview recorder - with remote app scheduling - any available?

armith

I have a Humax BT YouView box that allows me to set recordings remotely via my smartphone using the BT TV App. It's probably the best feature of the box. A friend of mine has an old TalkTalk YouView box that doesn't allow this. Are there any non-BT boxes that have this feature - or is it just going to be eBay to get a secondhand BT YouView box?

muffinhead

If budget isn't an issue this one should be suitable:

https://uk.humaxdigital.com/product/aura-uhd-android-tv-recorder/

Otherwise you could always put out a request on Freecycle/Freegle for an old BT box - I see them come up now and again.

armith

Oh... that looks perfect - so perfect in fact that she's just gone and bought it (so money really must be no object!). I've had a look on the Humax site myself - my existing BT box works fine - but I'm tempted by the "Refurbished" - anyone any horror stories about Humax Refurbished?

Thank-you for your help - no amount of wording in Google got me to that box.

LeesArt

I am astonished anyone still uses freeview, never mind pays for freeview boxes

jon81uk

LeesArt said:

I am astonished anyone still uses freeview, never mind pays for freeview boxes

recording freeview is great, get to fast forward through the adverts. If you want to watch Channel 4 or ITV without adverts online you need to pay them.

J_B

LeesArt said:

I am astonished anyone still uses freeview, never mind pays for freeview boxes

You seem to be on a one person campaign to lambast mainstream terrestrial tv .... that the majority of folks watch.

🤷‍♂️

mjm3346

jon81uk said:

LeesArt said:

I am astonished anyone still uses freeview, never mind pays for freeview boxes

recording freeview is great, get to fast forward through the adverts. If you want to watch Channel 4 or ITV without adverts online you need to pay them.

and paying for the C4 "ad free" version just cuts out some ads not all of them, it depending on the programme (I had a go with it on a free trial and cancelled after 1 day as there were still ads on almost every programme I wanted to watch)

LeesArt

jon81uk said:

LeesArt said:

I am astonished anyone still uses freeview, never mind pays for freeview boxes

recording freeview is great, get to fast forward through the adverts. If you want to watch Channel 4 or ITV without adverts online you need to pay them.

Why FF through anything?

The quality of ITV is not at a level I would pay for and C4's best ends up on Netflix.

Others say you can't get rid of ads completely.  

Martin_the_Unjust

LeesArt said:

I am astonished anyone still uses freeview, never mind pays for freeview boxes

You are easily astonished 

LeesArt

J_B said:

LeesArt said:

I am astonished anyone still uses freeview, never mind pays for freeview boxes

You seem to be on a one person campaign to lambast mainstream terrestrial tv .... that the majority of folks watch.

🤷‍♂️

Not really a campaign, just a responding to posts I see and thinking "wow do some people really want that".

I can always pick up a Freeview recorder on Freecycle for nothing.

I like to save time and recording no longer makes sense to me.

We used to have collections of video tapes, then collections of DVD's, then collections of downloaded content but now it is all online ready to be watched on demand.

I did fall into that trap of recording, I even upgraded my Sky hard disk several times, then did same on a PVR

All to store content I would never get around to watching.

Neil49

LeesArt said:

I am astonished anyone still uses freeview, never mind pays for freeview boxes

So what do you use for watching television programmes (and please don't say Netflix which broadcasts a load of rubbish)