Greenie
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| posted on 30/7/12 at 06:39 PM |
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Duump SKY for Freesat
My better half and myself have made the conscious decision to dump SKY, just not worth it anymore and now that they have notified us of there
impending increases, they are going to have to go..... Never really watch anything on SKY.
But we still want the ability to record etc, so my question to you is which is the best system Freesat system to purchase?
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Mr C
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| posted on 30/7/12 at 06:45 PM |
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The humax systems are as good as any with excellent reviews comes in two sizes 500gb and 1tb, for a more designer look the samsung isn't too bad
either.
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Slimy38
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| posted on 30/7/12 at 06:54 PM |
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Why not stick with the Sky Freesat? It's just a change of viewing card, the hardware stays the same. Unless you haven't got a sky+ box?
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vanepico
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| posted on 30/7/12 at 06:55 PM |
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you don't need to change card i don't think, just let it expire then you get freeview only
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Greenie
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| posted on 30/7/12 at 06:59 PM |
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If I I do that will I not the ability to record, will SKY not turn that facility off?
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tims31
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| posted on 30/7/12 at 07:00 PM |
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I have a HUMAX box with a 500gb hard drive recorder, records on two channels and you can watch a third, series link etc really good. Only thing I
would want sky for is the F1 but I'm not going to fork out over £600 just for that.
Would recommend the Humax though.
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vanepico
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| posted on 30/7/12 at 07:00 PM |
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Nah you've paid for a box! You will only get access to half the hard drive though, half is used for anytime, which you can no longer get
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jossey
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| posted on 30/7/12 at 07:24 PM |
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to record you need to pay for sky freesat which is £5 a month.
Thanks
David Johnson
Building my tiger avon slowly but surely.
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vanepico
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| posted on 30/7/12 at 07:26 PM |
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Well in that case get rid of the bloody thing, burn it, or ebay it!
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Greenie
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| posted on 30/7/12 at 07:59 PM |
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Cheers to all.... Bye bye SKY hello Humax!
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jase380
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| posted on 30/7/12 at 08:05 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by tims31
I have a HUMAX box with a 500gb hard drive recorder, records on two channels and you can watch a third, series link etc really good. Only thing I
would want sky for is the F1 but I'm not going to fork out over £600 just for that.
Would recommend the Humax though.
You can watch F1 here http://www.vipbox.tv/sports/formula-1.html
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40inches
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| posted on 31/7/12 at 08:40 AM |
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Can highly recommend the Samsung boxes, I personally preferred the UI to the Humax, and cheaper too.
With the Sky+ box, when you cancel your subscription Sky will send a signal to stop the recording facility, leave it unplugged for
a couple of months, before they do, and it will record fine. Our old + box is in one of the kids bedroom and works OK.
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loggyboy
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| posted on 31/7/12 at 09:37 AM |
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Freesat is great, I have it built in to my TV, but sadly doesnt have a DVR built in, so I still subcribe to sky not just for the DVR, but there is a
few channels I still watch on Sky.
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Surrey Dave
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| posted on 31/7/12 at 10:53 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by 40inches
Can highly recommend the Samsung boxes, I personally preferred the UI to the Humax, and cheaper too.
With the Sky+ box, when you cancel your subscription Sky will send a signal to stop the recording facility, leave it unplugged for
a couple of months, before they do, and it will record fine. Our old + box is in one of the kids bedroom and works OK.
If that is correct ,I wonder if there is a back door way of enabling recording on an old Sky+ box?
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scudderfish
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| posted on 31/7/12 at 10:58 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by 40inches
Can highly recommend the Samsung boxes, I personally preferred the UI to the Humax, and cheaper too.
With the Sky+ box, when you cancel your subscription Sky will send a signal to stop the recording facility, leave it unplugged for
a couple of months, before they do, and it will record fine. Our old + box is in one of the kids bedroom and works OK.
That sounds quite petty of them.
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Strontium Dog
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| posted on 31/7/12 at 11:12 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scudderfish
quote:
Originally posted by 40inches
Can highly recommend the Samsung boxes, I personally preferred the UI to the Humax, and cheaper too.
With the Sky+ box, when you cancel your subscription Sky will send a signal to stop the recording facility, leave it unplugged for
a couple of months, before they do, and it will record fine. Our old + box is in one of the kids bedroom and works OK.
That sounds quite petty of them.
It's Murdoch ffs, your lucky they don't send an auto destruct signal as soon as you stop paying there bloated bills! Lol
I have a cheapo screwfix HD freesat box and dish that cost £50 all in and have had it for ages. It works fine and records to USB devices although the
UI is a bit crappy and for everything that isn't freesat I use the interweb. I meant to use it for a while and then get something better but so
far I havent seen the need to upgrade.
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40inches
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| posted on 31/7/12 at 11:52 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scudderfish
quote:
Originally posted by 40inches
Can highly recommend the Samsung boxes, I personally preferred the UI to the Humax, and cheaper too.
With the Sky+ box, when you cancel your subscription Sky will send a signal to stop the recording facility, leave it unplugged for
a couple of months, before they do, and it will record fine. Our old + box is in one of the kids bedroom and works OK.
That sounds quite petty of them.
It gets worse, you can't play back any recordings you have made previously Talk about throwing your dummy out of the pram!
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swanny
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| posted on 31/7/12 at 11:55 AM |
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+1 for Humax, not as nice to use as Sky, but like you we simply didnt watch enough telly to justify the sky costs.
a real bonus for us has been the iplayer option on the humax box, with i think more telly on demand either arrived or coming soon.
moving from standard sky to humax means we actually get to see more of what we want as we can record and download.
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40inches
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| posted on 31/7/12 at 11:58 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Surrey Dave
quote:
Originally posted by 40inches
Can highly recommend the Samsung boxes, I personally preferred the UI to the Humax, and cheaper too.
With the Sky+ box, when you cancel your subscription Sky will send a signal to stop the recording facility, leave it unplugged for
a couple of months, before they do, and it will record fine. Our old + box is in one of the kids bedroom and works OK.
If that is correct ,I wonder if there is a back door way of enabling recording on an old Sky+ box?
Yes and no If you take out your card when you cancel your subscription and unplug the box (before your subscription expires) leave it for a few
months, SKY keep sending a seek and destroy command via satellite for this time, it should then work, mine did.
More info here, read the whole lot
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vanepico
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| posted on 31/7/12 at 07:10 PM |
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our phone line was removed as soon as the guy left because it cocked up our internet
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Greenie
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| posted on 1/8/12 at 07:49 PM |
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Do I need a dish to use the Humax system or can I utilise my SKY dish or do I need a dish at all?
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vanepico
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| posted on 1/8/12 at 07:54 PM |
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pretty sure LNBs are standard, but if the humax can record two things and play live tv I would think it would need three coax wires?
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whitestu
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| posted on 1/8/12 at 08:49 PM |
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quote:
Do I need a dish to use the Humax system or can I utilise my SKY dish or do I need a dish at all?
Your Sky disk will be fine. Just buy a multi way LNB like this:
Linky
Stu
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JC
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| posted on 1/8/12 at 08:50 PM |
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My TV has freest built in, but also has a USB port that we plug an external standard Hard drive into!!!
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franky
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| posted on 1/8/12 at 10:05 PM |
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I've just done the same but going to wait for the new range of humax box's to come out. Lots of interesting developments around them.
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