RonLayton Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 Hi Bob TI have used a French bought freesat unit for a few years now and have been looking for an alternative to a Skybox.The FOXSATHDR looks to be just right. My only concern was how to backup the programs from the hard drive either to my PC or to an external hard drive..I called Humax and their tech support says this can be done using the USB port.Your comment that a 1Tb drive can easily be fitted caught my eye. Is it really "quite easy"?At the moment I have two dishes; one pointed at a French satellite the other at the UK Astra 2. So I am deciding whether to have a dual LMB on the Astra 2 so that I record one channel and watch another; or put the second LMB onto a French satellite for all their freeview channels.RonL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Ron, get a quad LNB for both dishes and you are totally future proof.Look at the Panasonic HD recorders with built in decoders before you finally plump for the Humax - mine has twin decoders and will even record two channels at the same time. I know everybody loves the Humax and I'm sure they're great but they are not the only solution out there.I asked months ago if the "Fox" bit meant the Humax is actually a Murdoch product - does anybody know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 I can find no link at all to Rupert Murdoch or News corpDanny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Humax is Korean and doesn't admit to be involved with Murdoch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humax but they do have an agreement with BskyB http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-04-14/bskyb-to-expand-internet-tv-sky-player-service-through-accord-with-humax.html. I've been looking at these for a little while and if Murdoch was openly involved it might be enough to put me off, but the Panasonic is over £100 (50%) more. I'm keeping a watching brief, at least until the Jan sales[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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