Freeview recorder - with remote app scheduling - any available?

LeesArt

Neil49 said:

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) 

So you want me to lie because you do not like my answer?

jbuchanangb

I am a fan of Freeview. I have a BT YouView box connected to TalkTalk broadband but without the TalkTalk TV subscription. No other paid subscriptions. Pre-selecting my choice of viewing from the TV guide and then choosing to view preselected programmes, without the ads (using FF) at time convenient to me works well. Everyone's viewing styles are different. My wife refuses to watch live TV using the YouView box, she will turn it off and watch using the Freeview enabled TV. I don't know why. She sees the YouView box as just for recording and playback.

MattMattMattUK

LeesArt said:

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

Freeview is free, which is why people still use it, although as pretty much every TV sold in the last 15 years has had Freeview built in I imagine that the demand for boxes is very low.

I am more surprised that people still pay for Sky or Virgin, both have been overpriced and not worth it forever. 

MattMattMattUK

Neil49 said:

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) 

Netflix has loads of great content, although it appears that much of it may not be to your taste. Personally I feel that Netflix is better value for money that ITV, CH5 or CH5, and they are free!

armith

Oh - I didn't expect my question to turn into such a debate! Like jbuchannangb I'm quite happy with my ("ex" BT) YouView box - I tell it to record all sorts of stuff - I don't end up watching 75% of it - but it means I've always got the option of having something to watch - and skipping the ads. I have used Netflix (had it free for a year with a student bank account) and subscribed to Amazon Prime for ages - from the LoveFilm era actually - and I just wasn't getting the value out of it.

Back to the original question in this thread though. She didn't end up actually buying the Humax Aura (even though she said she had...) - she did a bit of research on it and discovered that the app only works if you are on the same wifi network with both your phone and the box. Not sure how useful the app is because of this. My (Humax) YouView box is still permitted to use the BT TV app - so I can schedule recordings when I'm out and about.

It doesn't look like there are any new boxes that allow this (unless you subscribe to BT). So the only way would be to get a second-hand BT YouView box.