Humax Foxsat -HDR Reviews

This is the first time I've moved away from providers like Sky and Virgin and struck out on my own, and I am so pleased to have taken the plunge. After sadly waving goodbye to my V+ box I got one of these. It isn't really £11 like it says at the top of the page - that's just for a remote! But at £240 it's about the same price as I was ...  Read the complete review

With Freeview unavailable in my area and my unwillingness to pay a premium for content from sky, i had little other option than to buy a Freesat box. After much research and trepidation the general consensus seemed to be that a Humax Foxsat HDR set top box would meet my needs better than any other box. After paying £200 for a ...  Read the complete review

When my finance and I moved into our first flat together almost two years ago, we had a dilemma - What should we do for TV? I had become used to the Humax 9200, which was the "Rolls Royce" of freeview recorders at the time, but there was a strong temptation to go for Sky, get the HD content, a few more channels and so on. If it ...  Read the complete review

When my parents bought themselves a Humax HDR Freesat Box, I was not too far behind with purchasing my own! With 320GB hard drive, the Humax box can store approx 150 hours worh of Standard definition TV (about half as much when recording in HD) and can record 2 channels at the same time.  The Humax box was extremelly easy to set up, ...  Read the complete review

After buying my own house, I had a need for decent TV and as the house already had a sattelite dish installed I was left with two real options Sky or Freesat. When I considered the financial implications of them both, the Freesat option seeemed like a no brainer; yes a higher initial outlay, but that's it. Looking at the options ...  Read the complete review

If, like me, you begrudge paying monthly for the recording features a Sky+ box offers and have suffered unreliability issues with budget PVR/DVR alternatives such as Thomson, this piece of kit could be what you're looking for. Manufactured by the daddy of the PVR/DVR market Humax, the Foxsat HDR Freesat HD Receiver with Hard ...  Read the complete review

Struggling on and off for many months with the dreaded "bad or no signal" from my ariel and being unable face yet another foray into the attic to mess with the co-ax (or pay somebody else to), I plumped for the FOXSAT-HDR to sort it once and for all. Freeview HD was not an option because of the aforementioned signal issues so a ...  Read the complete review

The box is black and sleek to look at - which fits in nicely with any TV/DVD player etc. The remote control is the same - but does show up fingerprints on the shiny areas! Lots of functions on the remote control - but it is easy to use. I have never been a Sky or Virgin customer and so the idea of pausing or rewinding live TV ...  Read the complete review

Humax freesat+ FOXSAT-HDR Satellite HD Digital Television Recorder ~~Why did I buy it?~~ I have had various recording devices, including videos, a DVD player/recorder, & a freeview with hard drive & DVD recorder which was excellent when it was working but was so unreliable it went back within the ...  Read the complete review

Over a year ago we decided that as most of the channels we were watching on sky we could get through freesat, we cancelled sky and bought this box as you only pay for the box itself and there are no monthly fees. It has everything you need to set it up and it was so easy that the wife did it whilst I was at work, using the existing ...  Read the complete review

We bought this box instead of Sky as it was a one off payment for free satellite TV including high definition channels. We had it installed by a company and it did look slightly complicating, so I'd recommend having it installed by others and not bothering to try yourself. I think it's a great box but at the price of £122 on ...  Read the complete review

We have had one of these in the flat for a while now after the buildings freeview signal became shakey. It really is a decent box providing a solution similar to Sky+ with recording, live pause, fast forward and rewind. I love it having an HDMI connection not just for the HD channels but for the great resolution it gives on ...  Read the complete review

This review weighs up the advantages/disadvantages of the Foxsat-HDR over the Sky + box other than the obvious that the Foxsat has HD. A few years ago I had the Humax PVR which was great except Freeview is not so good in my area. The children and grandchildren moved away so got rid of TV completely , a year ago they moved ...  Read the complete review

The Humax Foxsat HDR is a digital box that allows you to pick up HD Freesat tv using a satellite dish. If you already have a dish set up (maybe if you have previously had Sky) then you won't need to get a new dish installed or even repositioned. The digital box itself looks great. It has a simple but smart look with a dark ...  Read the complete review

humax foxstat-hdr.has a very serious fault in my view,in that even with two feeds if you record two programmes you cut out most other channels.so your viewing is cut to almost nothing,unless you use your tele,via a freeview enabled t.v or with a set top box if your area is digital only.if you purchased a humax, a t.v and dish only you ...  Read the complete review

I was a bit nervous about buying this after lengthy discussions with John Lewis staff about the returns policy. It comes down to the fact that it contains a hard drive, making it recordable media, and their legal obligations are different. In real terms it means if I did return it they'd have more work to do to ensure that the device ...  Read the complete review

*** ALERT Very long review, hope you can make it through and I do appreciate it if you do :O) *** I am a former Sky TV customer but after some serious cost-cutting a few years ago I did not see the need to pay for a multitude of channels I did not have time to watch. Don't worry you still get the free to air channels from BBC1 ...  Read the complete review