What did it cost you ?

Price of box you pay is it worth the cost vs other Freesat boxes ? 😮😊

what was the price of this previously on Amazon buddy?

I hate the fact remote doesn’t have a button to change sources/inputs.

I ditched Sky 'cos we did'nt view enough of their content and switched to this Freesat 500gb 4k model. After a couple or years the hard drive failed.....don't panic if this happens after the warranty....I replaced the hard drive with a new one for £15 and a set of security bits. It took 5 or 6 minutes and works like new.

Interesting, but why did you record this in portrait mode? You display only 40% of the potential viewing area. Please, in future videos, use landscape mode..

Can you series record with this box?

Disliked for vertical video...

why film with the phone vertically, can’t see stuff, I’ve heard these boxes have some terrible issues & don’t last long.

ive found with sky if you don't mind being in contract phone them up every 6 months or so and re new your contract, just lay it on your a VIP etc and you will get it cheap, i was lucky when i phoned up and the woman added a huge discount on renewing mine, before it was going up to £101 for netflix, sky sports, bt sport, hd, cinema, standard package but she got mine down to £60 for 18 months, soon as it goes up again i'll be phoning up and renewing agen to get it back down. for eg multiscreen it was going to £15 but online it says £10 but when i phoned up she was doing it for £4 if you renew your contract

Will that remote turn tv and freesat box on…I don’t want to use two remotes. 2:33

Great help, looking to get rid of my Sky Q but was unsure about the reviews on these and they are pretty expensive. How is it holding up?

Can you connect a WD Mycloud to this wirelessly? or any nas server?

Hi can you series link with this?

thanks for sharing. I have the old Humax freesat box, and thinking of upgrading to the one in your video. Currently a sky q customer but considering getting rid of.

Thanks for this, considering changing from sky q to save some money and the fact we barely watch any channels. Most of my recordings are from the original 5 channels anyway! Like others I was keeping it simply for the plus functions. I also have a firestick which allows me to watch any channels I want but you can't record on it, although handy for live sport and movies 👍

Can ya swap out the 500gig hard drive for a 1tb hard drive?

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Very nice little box

Cheers good demo. Looking for Sky Q replacement

I absolutely hate that remote. No support whatsoever for my last two fingers when pressing the number buttons

LOL I'm guessing you must be an "old fart" like myself, I can hear people shouting "Landscape FGS !!! " .. No offence meant and cheers for the content..

Thanks Darren, great first vid. Only thing I would say is please do landscape mode. You sound very local to me ;)

Really helpful - was concerned about the EPG and usability. This looks great. I just have basic Sky Q and have stuck with it mainly because of the sky plus functions. This look like a perfect replacement.

Have you ever come across landscape mode during your video recordings? Maybe you should look at a TV or cinema screen. Do you see the orientation?

Freesat remort you sale

Just to ask is remot, bluetooth or IR?

I have the 2 TB version my only annoyance is it shows searching for channels (showing the satellite image) for 20 seconds before coming on and vertically always default to bbc1 every time its turned on in morning (stand by)

I found it’s adequate too good around the volume program up program down home button but the Forward fast ,pause, stop and exit buttons are too close together and you repeatedly hit exit when you’re trying to forward fast it’s been built with someone with let’s say slighter fingers

So this cant replace Sky Q multiroom just the main box?

great review so can you use a sky dish for this or do i need a new one ?

Does it now have the ability to add Disney plus as an app

Does it have the tv player app

hi, my sub runs out with sky this month and was looking at one of these also,, can i ask, as its been a few months since ur review, how r u getting on with the box now,, and also can u download the Disney + app on it also,, tia matt 😉👍

Just about to buy one of these for my mum, not really a lot of choice for her as she only has a satellite dish on her roof, her Humax HDR1100 has just died after 6 years, hoping this new box will be a lot better, but now worried after reading reviews on it!😱🤦‍♂️ she has a Panasonic 4K TV, how are all your Freesat boxes doing ? Reliable after latest update? Any other issues?

Is there another aerial hole so I can run a coaxial cable to up stairs Tv

Thanks 👍🏻 I've just cancelled sky I hardly watch the sky exclusive content. Can you download programs from the on demand such as netflix Amazon nowtv?

Thanks for this! just wanted to take a good look at the menus and remote

Hi is there sky sports and bt sports on there?

great video and info, but please use landscape and not portrait

Thinking of replacing Sky Q with one of these, helpful video. Read lot's of problems with these so was a bit wary. Cheers for posting.

Cheers for the review. Can you do series link type recordings or do you have to manually choose day corrie Street every time you want to record it?

Few questions darren if you don't mind, can you manually tune channels, or does it only tune a set amount of channels? Can you move recordings from hardrive to an external one? And finally, can you chop up any recordings? Thanks.

I've just not long bought the same box but the 2tb box but I'm having problems. I've tried recording the film total recall last week and it recorded but when I looked in the most recent recordings it had multiple failed recordings of the film. God knows why that happened. I've set a recording for something on Wednesday the 12th and it said it was set but when I've looked in the planned recordings it isn't there. I've even set it to record total recall that is on on Tuesday night and I keep seeing on screen recording cancelled when I haven't cancelled it. Sorry for the long post.

Freesat is a great system. I'll never sub to sky again. Is there a non freesat mode and what is the fastest fast forward option ?

Good concise review. I have a quick question. My TV is a few years old now and consequently is not HDR. I understand that with this box HDR is always on. Would this cause a problem for me? Many thanks.

You must have got the good one Darren, most others have had lots of problems with them.

I’ve got Sky Q and looking to cut the cord, is it easy to install?

Great video review Is it worth getting this over my humax 1010s on my box it shows me what is being played but how much content can you actually watch in 4K

Hi Very good review. Did you change the hdmi cable or put on a different hdmi port for better quality? Thanks