I've WON a Humax Foxsat+ PVR

[Miklos]

GET IN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I entered the competition in What Satellite & Digital TV - the caption contest - and guess what??? I WON !!!!!!!!!

I've won a brand spanking new top of the range HUMAX FOXSAT+ HD PVR Freesat receiver

Will be taking delivery of it today as TNT attempted delivery yesterday

Watch out for my name in the May edition (if you read it), it was the boxing photo competition - name: Mike Neill

WOOOO HOOOOOOO - I've never won anything since I was a child, never of this quality anyway!!!

[Toxic]

Well done m8 nice to see some one win somthing as most of the time the comp's run and you know no one won it when thay say we gota winner

[Miklos]

Cheers Toxic

Got it here in front of me.
My instinct's paid off - I'm at work and I know TNT are in here every single day without fail and with living just 2 miles away I took the gamble thinking the same driver would also have my PRIZE.
My gamble paid off.
I told security to call me the minute TNT was on site and I intercepted him

He shat himself, he thought he was being arrested by anti-terror police of summink
Especially when security reached for the phone to call me and gave the single announcement "TNT are on site".

Will have a play tonight with my FREE toy

[SAT-WORLD]

Congratulations Mike.
You'll certainly will be having a ball tonight.
Well done

[southernsatellite]

Well done, its good to see someone on the board win something

[Miklos]

Cheers guys!

Not 100% impressed with it just yet. Can't knock the picture quality, that's second to none but my FS Passion was much easier to control than this gadget.
Much, much easier!!!!!
For example when wanting to change from sat to sat, on the Passion I have a 'sat' button, press it, select the sat you want and away you go. With the Foxsat you have to go into menu, select non-freesat mode then take it from there. Most annoying and unnecessarily time consuming.
Unless of course, I am doing something wrong and somebody knows an easier way of accessing the 'other' sats on a motorised setup???

Haven't tried the recording yet either. Will try that baby tomorrow night whilst watching Lewis and record No1 Ladies Detective Agency on BBC HD

[Miklos]

Another question:-

Is there a better way of interchanging from Freesat to non-Freesat than having to go through loads & loads of menu's???
The proceedure is not very wife friendly.

As I said on my other post, my FS Passion HD was very easy at doing this. And, you could save any number of channels from any number of satellite into your favourite list and the receiver would decode them when selecting.
This Foxsat doesn't even allow you to save non-Freesat channels into a favourite list !!!!!!
What good is that???

These are obviously going to have to be rectified in future software updates.

So far I'm giving the Foxsat 5/10 against the 8/10 I'd give my Passion HD. . . . .

[Miklos]

I've had time to have a little more of a play about with it and I am beginning to eat my own words....
I take back what I said about the 5/10 thing, I'm giving it an 8 It's growing on me

And so it should, it was FREE!!!!!
Tried the PVR jobby the other night and was very impressed.

As I'm new to PVR receivers, could someone answer me this:- Transferring your recorded files to a DVD recorder? Is there an easier way than having to watch the programmes while you record? Or do I have to transfer them to an external HDD and recode them on the PC?

[PS. My FS Passion is now on Ebay.....]

[alex1]

Originally Posted by southernsatellite

Well done, its good to see someone on the board win something

excellent its good to see someone win something m8.