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Freesat PVR <€150

  • 03-07-2020 10:13PM
    #1
    mgbgt1978
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,232 ✭✭✭


    Hi lads, as per title is there a Freesat PVR out there for under €150.
    I don't need Saorview. I don't really want something that needs re-tuning or adding Apps/fiddling with ;).


    Thanks.


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  • #2
    decor58
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭decor58


    mgbgt1978 wrote: »
    Hi lads, as per title is there a Freesat PVR out there for under €150.
    I don't need Saorview. I don't really want something that needs re-tuning or adding Apps/fiddling with ;).


    Thanks.

    I have been using a Humax for about 3 years now and no complaints, there are 2 models, one with varying size hdd and one without a built in hdd, a hdd can be added. Humax don't supply Freesat boxes any more but they can still be got on Adverts/Done deal, there are a couple of the non hdd receivers on Adverts at the moment, for under 100€, these only have 1tuner, which limits the recording options, The built in hdd type have twin tuners and go 200€+ new, if they can still be got, Arris supply Freesat boxes now, along with Manhattan, try the various sites for a Freesat recorder.


  • #3
    mackersdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,503 ✭✭✭mackersdublin


    mgbgt1978 wrote: »
    Hi lads, as per title is there a Freesat PVR out there for under €150.
    I don't need Saorview. I don't really want something that needs re-tuning or adding Apps/fiddling with ;).

    Thanks.

    Cheapest Freesat PVR box on the market at the moment is £199.99 from Currys UK

    https://www.freesat.co.uk/4k-tv-box/


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,461 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Which is why I bought a Manhatten SX for the Freesat interactive and a Redline M440HD for USB external recording off any Freesat channel, or the other satellites on the Diseqc system. In all the years of the Humax HDR1010S till it "died" recently, it only had a few tennis recordings off BBC, and wouldn't record Eurosport Deutschland anyway. We have a Sony TV with Dual Sat Tuner which uses external USB HHD, but the drive this dedicated, encrypted and you can't use it for anything else. Also Android TV is SO GARBAGE we only use it for BD & DVD playback in the bedroom. The two sat boxes feed a Toshiba TV which is fine for Terrestrial TV, computer, VHS, BD/DVD, USB photos/Video etc. The Redline records basic .ts files that play back on a laptop, but not the TVs, though they playback on any Redline HD sat box.

    Half the price of a "real" PVR for two boxes. I think the internal drive PVRs are only good value if you do a lot of Freesat timeshifting.


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