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Unfortunately Sky are no longer offering any satellite TV deals now - just Sky Glass and Stream - so even Freesat users have only got until the end of the decade before the satellites are switched off.
So goodbye to recording any TV.
Perhaps Betamax will make a comeback and finally have it's day! 🙂
Got a few years yet then...
So goodbye to recording any TV.
Assuming a decent connection (which we should, the same would be true of satellite signal), on demand viewing negates most reasons to record TV. It's nice to have everything in one place rather than playing App Roulette, and some things you might want to keep, but this is why we have piracy.
Exactly that ^
It is just used for recording The Chase, Countdown and Coronation Street to be binge watched when she has time. Well worth the cost of the box IMHO.
Shame it'll be redundant in 5 or so years, but until then it'll do just fine.
The main reason to record is to skip adverts not to keep programmes.
Try watching a programme on ITVX, 5, C4 or U etc. The adverts are so intrusive now.
100% this. I also find it easier to FF/REW on the PVR than I do on some streaming services
Unfortunately Sky are no longer offering any satellite TV deals now - just Sky Glass and Stream - so even Freesat users have only got until the end of the decade before the satellites are switched off.
So goodbye to recording any TV.
Perhaps Betamax will make a comeback and finally have it's day!
I guess far more 'old school' recorders are Freeview/aerial based rather than Freesat/dish based. Freeview over aerial seem to have slightly longer legs.
T3.COM Ooooh! Interesting.
There is of course a whole industry of satellite dish and TV aerial installers that will soon be out of work.
Had a Freesat box / hard drive a few years now since ditching SKY. It's virtually as intuitive, has saved a tidy sum and is great for skipping adverts. Hadn't really considered that if SKY were to abandon satellite broadcasting, transmissions might disappear. Would there be sufficient demand for someone to maintain the medium? Would Freesat need to become 'still cheaper than SKY' sat?
Coming your way soon - no aerial required
I wouldn't be so sure about that...
"The Humax box is thought to be a hybrid device as the PVR functionality will surely need terrestrial programming via an antenna – so recording something will do so from the conventional TV signal rather than internet stream."
So it seems to be a conventional Freeview based PVR + channel apps. As Humax boxes have apps already, the only change is it's Freely based for live channels? Which seems somewhat pointless if you need to feed it an aerial for the PVR bit.
Would there be sufficient demand for someone to maintain the medium?
Current ones are coming to the end of their life and it's way cheaper to send your output down the existing fibre network than pop new satellites in space. And the demand doesn't seem to be there.
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The Humax box is thought to be a hybrid device as the PVR functionality will surely need terrestrial programming via an antenna
I wondered if it might skip the antenna and record a live stream to enable later playback, either using the raw data or by re-encoding the decoded image. That would then potentially give the option for timeslip viewing on platforms that don't support it (eg C4) so I could get home half way through the F1 highlights and immediately watch it from the start. Which incidentally is why recording live TV still beats streaming for me.
The main reason to record is to skip adverts not to keep programmes.
Try watching a programme on ITVX, 5, C4 or U etc. The adverts are so intrusive now.
I suppose I watch so little broadcast TV these days that I don't really care about "normal" advert breaks, but that's a good point.
I suppose I watch so little broadcast TV these days that I don't really care about "normal" advert breaks, but that's a good point.
It didn’t seem to be a good point when you were vociferously telling me skipping adverts had nothing to do with it back in September further up this thread 🤪
Well, no, I was saying that the OP hadn't mentioned adverts until I laboured the point (and I explicitly told you that I was referencing the OP).
Whilst I appreciate the “security” having recordings readily accessible, I fairly recently got rid of our Humax box and now access everything on demand via the TV and internet. I see no need for more wires and an extra remote.
For me, the advantage of being able to record rather than use the catch-up streaming services is being able to skip through the adverts, which most of the streaming services don't allow you to do.