freeview box advice

[bunglebear]

hey all,

looking at getting a new freeview hd box with hard drive to record, but also want built in catch up services and streamers such as netflix and now tv.....
anyone know of a box that has all this?

thanks

[dickyg]

I have the humax-dtr1010 which does all that you ask for I believe. Haven't tried Netflix or now tv on it as use lovefilm through the bluray player. Pricey outlay but with waving goodbye to thieving Sky I have soon recouped the cost.

[dave]

Might be worth considering getting a Humax box by subscribing to BT TV - that has all the catch up services built into the programme guide which is handy.

[dickyg]

Mine has that without the BT subscription, save a bit more cash.

[bunglebear]

Apr 28, 2014 13:33:35 GMT dickyg said:

I have the humax-dtr1010 which does all that you ask for I believe. Haven't tried Netflix or now tv on it as use lovefilm through the bluray player. Pricey outlay but with waving goodbye to thieving Sky I have soon recouped the cost.

mmmmm nice machine but on searching seems only has now tv not netflix 
tempting though

[dickyg]

Didn't realise that, haven't got Netflix as am with Lovefilm instead. We get both of them through the Bluray so wasn't really a consideration when choosing the freeview box.

[andy01424]

Think what your looking for maybe is a freesat box--differs slight from freeview on channels,all run off a sky dish ,like most got fed up with rip price for more repeats than BBC!! with sky
Basic what your looking for is any box that has a internet connection port

[bunglebear]

Basic what your looking for is any box that has a internet connection port[/quote]


Well yes n no!
Ethernet or builtin wifi gives access to internet, but the manufacturerof box will only have certain apps in their store, and none seem to have Netflix and now tv. Although samsung hub is probably closest for my needs

[ionian]

www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-DMR-HWT130EB-Recorder-Freeview-Tuners/dp/B00BYUGN74

It has netflix but not sure about nowTV, but the nowtv box is only a tenner as an added extra if you want that service as well:
shop.nowtv.com/?referrer=nowtvbox&DCMP=KNC-Brand-

[andy01424]

if you have a PS3 you could just run it of that to lol finding a box to have it looks pretty slim found few that supposedly has it but at £160,your probably better off buying a streaming box
Gigablue HD800 -------according to moneyexpert forum this will do netflix
www.wotsat.com/news/article/gigablue-hd800--pound;160-approx/8970

[Deleted]

Apr 29, 2014 0:14:33 GMT andy01424 said:

Think what your looking for maybe is a freesat box--differs slight from freeview on channels,all run off a sky dish ,like most got fed up with rip price for more repeats than BBC!! with sky
Basic what your looking for is any box that has a internet connection port

I have freesat box and also freeview box, both in lounge and just freeview in other room. I don't watch tv much just sometimes BBC News 24 or Click on that channel, I use it when others visit etc.

So with my freesat in the manual it says how to I think it is called polarise the dish from the remote, so I done that and I have 200+ tv channels now and 50 plus radio stations all are free.
Freesat doesn't have 5USA and I liked to watch SOA when it was on, unsure why it hasn't got the next series, unless I've missed it :-(

One of the the forum members (sorry unsure who ?) recently posted they bought one of these it has catch up tv and a thing like netflix that is free to use.
I had a look and Fasttech have all of these parts on list (except Raspberry Pi) so if bought there and the Raspberry Pi bought in UK at RS or Farnell, it works out quite a lot cheaper to do that. Around half of the eBay price linked to above.
It all just plugs in to each other, the only difficult bit is creating the OpenElec and then XBMC there is a wiki with step by step how to do this. OpenElec and XBMC are free.

[andy01424]

on the net you can use this ,free just close the advert :
www.filmon.com/
with freesat box if you go into set up make sure hidden channels displayed is set to yes
five usa is on channel 129/130

try rescan of channels 5 usa is on there
www.a516digital.com/p/freesat-channel-list.html


you can go into setup and manualy input channles,click on station you wantopens box with freq:
www.onastra.com/2183/channelfinder/tv/search?name=5+USA

[Deleted]

I have a better idea

Ditch the tv....get a pet....and do some crochet, reading, music and vaping

Och and become a cub scout leader

Do you not agree zeldamum? or teethcv

[bunglebear]

Apr 30, 2014 16:44:23 GMT @johanino said:

I have a better idea

Ditch the tv....get a pet....and do some crochet, reading, music and vaping

Och and become a cub scout leader

Do you not agree zeldamum? or teethcv

Mmmmm a man who knows crochet.....
TEACH ME!!

[teethcv]

@johanino i dont think so you forgot beer lol


and what you should be doing is getting pissed falling over then sleeping where you fall get it right this sounds more intresting to me lol but know my luck people wont rob my money or nything else they will just take my custard lol