Cloggie - 20 minutes ago »
I might look at a foxsat next. I've had issues with 2 1000s boxes now. The first one was refurbished and sold via humax direct. It worked perfectly for a year or two until recently it started to refuse responding to the remote, would not switch on from standby. After a power off at the socket it would start up and after a few minutes suddenly shut down. One day that was its final action - it did not power up, not even show a light. Dead. And now this one with a HDD playing hide and seek. I've heard a lot of positive noise about the foxsat so maybe I'll look into that. I can't afford a new box and by the sound of it humax isn't bothered about the HDD issue so it's not going to be sorted any day soon. I kept the remote from the first box.
My 2008 Foxsat (with the Custom Firmware) is still used every day. However the HD picture direct from the box is somewhat soft compared to the later boxes. However the CF does include a DLNA streaming package for the recordings, that the newer G2 boxes can play back. The picture quality is as good as the G2 boxes played back this way.
If you buy a new HDR-1100S you will get a 2yr warranty and paired with a CF equipped Foxsat-HDR may be your best bet. You can copy HD recordings direct from a CF equipped Foxsat-HDR (we can't talk about how here) and play back even on a PC.
I have one of the first release HDR-1000S boxes with a 2TB drive so far it works really well though I did have to replace the HDD after about 18 months of daily use up to around 12 hrs/day..
Consider a used HDR-FOX-T2 which with the custom firmware has even more capability than a Foxsat-HDR assuming you can get a decent Freeview Signal.
| Wed 26 Sep 2018 21:25:32
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