Have any of you got a Freesat box and what are they like, in particular the official recording boxes, what’s the user interface like, slick and quick or laggy and crashes? what’s it’s recording feature like? We currently have Virgin bundle of BB/Landline/TV, planning on ditching the landline and TV but with nearest antenna being a repeater freeview is limited and BB from Openreach is even worse so need to stay with Virgin for BB. Will try to renegotiate our deal with Virgin but from previous experience I suspect they know how poor the competition is so they’ve got us over a barrel and best they offer is usually a fiver off for another 18mths
I have an integrated freesat tuner in a 4K TV and I prefer that to the integrated freeview tuner in an 8K TV. I prefer the freeview operating system though to the freesat operating system. I've either not worked out how to get the freesat programme guide transparent/opaque so you can still see the programme you are watching or it just sucks. Really don't get the freesat logic. Both TVs are Samsung. Andy
I can’t honestly remember the last time I watched anything on ‘normal tv’. I’ve got a similar arrangement built in to my tv but have never used it. I don’t have sky or bt, I’ve got a fire stick we’ve nicknamed ‘dodgy box’, Netflix, Disney + and Amazon. All of which we share amongst mates, never wanted for anything else
I bought a box each for my mum and sister a few years back with a 500gb drive so they could pause/record TV. They were Humax DTR-T2000 500gb but old tech now I expect. They seems to have not fucked them up, which is saying quite a lot.
I watch Disney and Prime quite a lot, Netflix not so much so I’d probably be the same and watch terrestrial on catch up but the mrs still likes to series record stuff rather than go searching for it on streaming services.
I had a fire stick for Christmas and a year of Disney I have ditched Netflix and signed up for prime Next will be sky as I can get the channels I need on the fire stick I didn't realise I could Bluetooth my headphones and watched black widow the other day it was like being in the cinema
My Humax Freesat box is over 7 years old and still going. My dish however is shot so no tv for 2 years. Don't really miss it; the terrestrial channels that is. If its something I really want to see mates will rip it to a stick for me. I do enjoy my monthly letters from TV licensing police though I've been under investigation for 2 years and they say I will be visited. I even bought in biscuits for the visit. Bit stale now mind
I've had a freesat 1tb recordable box for about a year, very intuitive, easy to use, only issue for me is that it's an hour behind (I live in the future in Spain) however, highly recommended & I would buy another.
Well Virgin must have customers jumping ship in their droves because they offered me a fairly good deal to stay, (and that includes their 13.8% increase next month) certainly cheaper than the outlay to buy a Freesat box so staying put for another 18mths, although I’ve now seen CityFibre are on their way to us now so by then we should be able to shop around for our broadband for a better deal and may get freesat then?
