Want to buy Dad a HD sat receiver

[keith lard]

Forgive me for asking, not clued up on this, but would one kind person or others, point me in a good direction for a Freesat HD recevier that would work on a Sly dish?

Have heard this is possible.

and pointers or advice is most welcome


k.

[madsod]

humax foxsat but a new one is on its way with a hard drive but will cost £300 the foxsat is about £150 frim what i can recall

[aabs]

Humax all the way. DONT buy anything else it just isnt as good no matter what the salesman or so called expert tells you.

[Prontopro]

Forgive me for asking but he has got a high definition telly hasn't he?

The Humax is the most popular and recommended at the moment.

[Kipper2]

Hi, I bought a Foxsat this month so my better half can see the BBC HD channel without have to pay Sly. It is small, easy to connect and operate, DD out via optical and decent remote. It comes with HDMI lead that must be used for HD, SCART lead also.
Excellent for Freesat, havent tried it on any other satellites.
Cheers

[Tmull]

You have to believe it is as good as their iCord. But then again anything would be better than that.TMULL

[keith mawer]

to be honest apart from sly!! ( well its just my thought)... there is very little ,, ok itv hd and bbc hd and thats about it may be a couple on 1w

[goran]

I moved a friend's small 40cm dish to Astra1 on 19'E and it works, given half-decent weather...

Maybe on 13'E it's even better?

[dazzlet]

can i ask will this box upscale the sd channels too or is that not an option with this box.

also i know that it is a freesat reciever but what other channels can ip pick up in non freesat mode is there a link to a web page anywhere where i can find out what other channels this could pick up in non freesat mode?

also about this reciever as stated above it works on the old sly dish that i have allready up but woudl it also work woth a motorised dish in order to pick up more channels thanks

[satwyn]

the fortec passion+ will give you more two ci slots and usals for multi sat the humax is fta only and very limited the passion also gives you usb record facility

[AJR]

the humax is fta only

The humax foxsat hd pvr has a cam slot that works very well with a diablo, 2 sat tuners, and a 320g drive built in

In 'non freesat mode' There are issues with HD channels with sr of 30000, the lack of a usable favorite list and loss of freesat recording schedules when doing a satellite scan. (these are issues with the box not the cam, many peeps have moaned at humax so they may be fixed )

Apart from that its very good value.