Humax Freesat HDR

Aepos

I purchased a Humax Freesat HDR last week while in the UK £292.00 in Lewis's Department Store Cambridge. I was in Maplin in Dublin this morning and they have the same device in stock at, wait for it...........€509.00 Now is that taking the P**s or what? :eek:

BTW the device so far is great,no problem other than if using an external USB drive not being able to record anything larger than 4gb unless formatting the external drive in ext3 (Linux) :rolleyes:

byte

The 4GB restriction is a limit on the FAT32 format, nothing Humax can do about it, unless they can devise software that will segment recordings bigger than 4gigs.

danjo

Aepos wrote: »

I purchased a Humax Freesat HDR last week while in the UK £292.00 in Lewis's Department Store Cambridge. I was in Maplin in Dublin this morning and they have the same device in stock at, wait for it...........€509.00 Now is that taking the P**s or what? :eek:
:rolleyes:

You could have got it cheaper at Richer Sounds, delivered to your door. (£259)
Not much good telling you that now but may help others.

Maplins in the republic is the biggest joke of a shop. Thing is there's no real competition around.

kennyt

got mine delivered yesterday - £259 from richersounds (ask for the boards discount and you get free delivery). Very Happy with it so far!

Tony

cisk wrote: »

Thing is there's no real competition around.

On satellite products I beg to differ.

slegs

cisk wrote: »

Maplins in the republic is the biggest joke of a shop. Thing is there's no real competition around.

Maplins satellite set top box prices are pretty ridiculous but there are plenty of local options around on the same or similar equipment once you do a bit of research before parting with cash.

Kashkai

I got mine from Richersounds for £249 delivered. Brilliant piece of equipment, does everything except fetch me a cold can of Bulmers from the fridge

The ability to go through the 7 day epg and do the one touch programmed recording of films, drama series etc and then forget about it until I want to watch them is my favourite bit. Now if only I had the time to sit down and watch the stuff I've recorded would be nice!! (see 4 kids and pregnant wife for that). I suppose if I watched more tv, I wouldn't have the 4 1/2 kids :D

Martin_F

cisk wrote: »

Maplins in the republic is the biggest joke of a shop. Thing is there's no real competition around.

The really silly thing is they offer a reasonable delivery charge from maplins.co.uk - meaning a lot of the time it is much cheaper to order from their own UK website than buy locally.

Tony

Tony wrote: »

On satellite products I beg to differ.

True for sat stuff yes, but if you want somewhere to walk in to get computer/electrical parts ect, there's not many handy alternatives.

Tony

Thanks for clarifying that but in fairness this is a satellite forum.

cisk wrote: »

True for sat stuff yes, but if you want somewhere to walk in to get computer/electrical parts ect, there's not many handy alternatives.

just pointing out what a joke that shop is, Including prices for Sat equipment which the original poster mentioned

John mac

danjo wrote: »

You could have got it cheaper at Richer Sounds, delivered to your door. (£259)
Not much good telling you that now but may help others.

thats €295 at todays exchange rates (including 1.5% visa charge)

thats a bit better than 329

BowWow

freesat wrote: »

SNIP

Is this constant and blatant self advertisement not against the rules!?

byte

BowWow wrote: »

Is this constant and blatant self advertisement not against the rules!?

Yes, it sure is.

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