Paul Humax, who made Freesat PVRs under licence from Freesat, stopped making them earlier this year although there are still some old ones available. Freesat themselves are now making the PVRs. As you say there are still manufacturers (Manhattan etc.) that make receivers but none I think that make PVRs. You can of course still get a subscription PVR box like Sky or Apple that will do it but the whole point is to go sub free isn’t it? Plenty of Freeview PVRs

Or maybe I’m wrong I would be interested to know.


https://www.smartaerials.co.uk/blog/...-freesat-boxes

Well, I still feel a bit of a newbie when it comes to satellite PVRs. Having been a fan of Linux on PCs I have been attracted to Linux based Enigma 2 boxes of which there several manufacturers, zgemma being my choice. These boxes don't usually have a recording disk included but allow a standard external USB or Sata drive to be connected. My existing one has a 1Tb USB and the new one a slot for a 1Tb hard drive.

I set up and manage recordings on my laptop.

There are currently only two manufactures of Freesat boxes at the moment: Manhattan , and Arris
Manhattan do the basic HD model.
Arris do the 4k and 4k recordable...and sold directly by Freesat themselves, at limited retailers

No one else makes Freesat boxes these days.

Humax do, however, still make Freeview boxes

Could find no Freesat boxes found on that link...

But there there are plenty of "free to air" boxes online will get all the same channels (and more..eg c4hd ) than a Freesat box, but without the Freesat guide, epg and functionality...

Freesat do not own or operate any channels. Freesat is merely a portal to access a number of free to air channels.
There are a number of free to air channels that are not on Freesat, but can be access in "non Freesat mode", or on other "free to air" satellite receivers.

They actually stopped making them mid 2019 - (that blog post you linked to was posted in Feb 2020, some 6+ months after they stopped making them!)
The last batch left the warehouse in Nov 2019 - i know as i got some of that batch (of which I still have some new 1tb boxes for my clients - could sell them on ebay for a small fortune... 2nd hand 1tb boxes are like 400-500 gbp!!)

The new 4k Arris boxes were due "late 2019"... but it was not until Feb 2020 that they started to trickle out for sale, with the PVR being sold for about a week, then taken off sale due to all the complaints about the bugs and firmware...which are still being ironed out... it was only in one of the most recent firmware updates that the search function was added...and as for "the freesat app" integration and corect HDR settings who knows when they will be sorted...

Erm... All Freesat boxes use the same signals / beams / transponders / satellites...from the satellites.
Freeview uses a tv aerial and land based transmitters, whose sigansl / frequenceies / MUXs vary from place to place..

Just managed to buy a Humax HDR-1000S 500GB DVR off e-bay for £53 p&p.

Ray.

Im not using a dish though. Standard aerial on the roof and a Bush PVR. I had a look at the two transmitters on a map and they are kind of equal distance. I reckon the box is getting confused.

I think we are getting confused on this thread, which is about Freesat (via satellite)...not Freeview (via TV aerial and transmitters).

Yes 'Guy' it's not difficult to confuse our IT expert.

Ray.

Im not confused. I know what I was asking.

I have ended up with three Humax RM-F01 remotes. Two came with the units and because one was playing up I bought another.
Recently with all the extra use over Christmas and confinement they have all three been playing up. The most used buttons like 'OK' and '0' end up needing multiple pushes getting harder and harder.

So opening them up using the method shown on Youtube with a CC slid down the sides, I have now cleaned all three with alcohol and lint free cloth. So far so good and all buttons are working like new. I wonder how long before the problem reoccurs.?

Ray.

Here we go again.
My new ish Humax decided not to output today. I can power it up and apparently change cannels and volume via the remote but nothing appears on the TV via the HDMI cable. It was working fine last week when I set it to record some programs.

I have tried another Humax just to check the coax inputs and HDMI cables and all OK. So it's something daft in the box. I can see a small clock icon in the small screen and the channel.

Ray.