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Considering looking out for something in the sales, I'm too tight to pay for sky and TBH I don't really need that many channels anyway. I have a HD tv with built in freeview and the choice of programmes is adequate but it's not freeview HD and I had been wondering if it might enhance my viewing pleasure.
I've heard that a Humax box might be one to look at
Any advice please.
HD is stunning. But watching SD after it is awful.
My HD+ box is a Pace and its always freezing up. AVOID.
We've got a Humax recording box (the telly has Freeview & Freesat built in)
You need a degree to work the ****ing thing. It's got a mind of it's own.
I'm gonna ditch it & get something (unHumax) that'll record Freeview.
can you get freeview hd in your area? most areas you can't till 2012
i have a Humax, this one http://www.johnlewis.com/230519340/Product.aspx
one button operation to set recording be it either one programme or series, are you an OAP essel?
Don't get freeview HD, let it fail as a commercial disaster and then they might stop crippling the freesat HD channels to bring them down to the reduced quality of freeview HD...
On the Virgin V+ box there is not a huge difference to the SD channels when the source material behind was original filmed in HD.
ive got Freesat.... bit complicated remote... not as good as sky remote..doh..half the buttons dont work ? lol ...think its cheaper version of freeview ? duno lol...
got some triax hd+ freeviews on offer at £199+vat
very reliable unit. we sell loads of them.
Got the Humax FreeviewHD+ box a couple of months ago. Been rock solid and a doddle to use..... much like it's non-HD Humax predecessor.
bonzodog - Member
HD is stunning. But watching SD after it is awful.
That's what I wanted to hear.
5lab - Member
can you get freeview hd in your area? most areas you can't till 2012
Yes, since 18th feb 2010.
TurnerGuy - Member
Don't get freeview HD, let it fail as a commercial disaster and then they might stop crippling the freesat HD channels to bring them down to the reduced quality of freeview HD...On the Virgin V+ box there is not a huge difference to the SD channels when the source material behind was original filmed in HD.
I didn't understand a word of that 😳
ton - Member
got some triax hd+ freeviews on offer at £199+vat
very reliable unit. we sell loads of them.
ton, from reading your prevoius posts I think you're local to me. So, what do you do to 'sell loads of them'? Do you have a shop? Work in a shop? When do your sales start? 😉
smarty, we are a aerial and satellite wholesalers.
sell all the freeview or freesat revievers you will ever need.
in armley leeds.
Freeview HD has limited bandwidth available compared to satellite system so potentially Freesat HD could be a LOT better than Freeview HD, but the BBC are keeping the quality of the Freesat HD broadcast down so when Freeview HD comes along it will look as good.
Thanks TurnerGuy that's a little clearer. I understand your first post now, the bit about waiting for it to flop then freesat can improve, I get that now but will that happen?
really not sure about going for satelite, next door had terrible problems with sky and was told it was due to our location. The wind and rain, which blows strong and almost constantly up here would rattle the dish and the signal dropped off making picture freeze and lock up, I don't know if this can/would happen but I know they had it taken out.
We're near the top of one the biggest hills around here, facing southwest with MILES of clear views, i.e. no shelter from the wind at all (a still day is like gale force up here). This actually seems to help us for freeview tho' as we have a clear line of sight to the mast, about 3 miles away, I'm looking at it from my window now. Freeview signal strength and quality is right up at the top on our tele. Also semi rural location means we have no cable services, I checked Virgin TV website and it confirmed that we cannot have it. Only really leaves freeview, which is fine as it is but as in OP just wanted to know if HD was worth having and I would like a recorder.
ton, I'm interested in that Triax box, I'll speak to Mrs Smarty tomorrow.
Today I bought a Humax HDR-FOX T2 500GB Freeview+ HD box..................
..and some moleskin trousers 8)
HD is worth having but my fear is that HD quality will drop again when there are several HD channels available and they have to juggle bandwidth.
This has already happened with SD with Sky reducing bitrates to see how low they could go before people complained, and then the BBC doing the same thing a while later.
BBC HD bitrates have been reduced again recently with the BBC saying that they were using new encoding algos to keep the same quality, but they originally said DAB must never be broadcast below 192kb because it was low quality, and today you rarely find any broadcasts as high as that rate.
I worked at the BBC Research Dept when they first were working on HD via the Eureka project and it was awesome, 1280 lines (or something like that) of uncompressed analogue. Todays HD is pitiful in comparison.
So just make sure you complain appropriately when you start seeing blockiness appearing on your beautiful HD pictures. It won't do any good though with the modern BBC.