Humax HB-1100S Freesat HD TV with Satellite Receiver

Bought this after old set box packed in and research a bit about which ones were best etc etc. Having purchased it was very simple to connect up and had channels preset so connect your sat dish cable then your hdmi cable switch on and your up and running.It connects to ethernet cable or WiFi so great for Netflix or YouTube which are a bonus with this box. EPG is easy enough to use I just put channels I watch mainly into favourites and fined it grand.One problem I did have when I connected this box was I lost functions on remote for my TV ( I.e my TV wouldn't respond to remote ) after contacting their support team I got advice to try few things and found them very helpful eventually I used an adopter to disable pin 13 which was the CEC on hdmi cable and everything working away fine now.Hope this review might be helpful to some people. Thank You

Easy to set up and easy to operate. Does exactly what is required but comes with, no doubt, a few extra functions that I will never use that manufacturers add to distinguish their, otherwise indistinguishable, products. I see that nowadays there seems to be no pressure to make these things large and heavy to justify the price charged. This is a step forward as that justification vanished along with glass valves many years ago.

Good looking box with wi-fi Internet connection, some smart functions (which I don't use as I already have them on the TV this is connected to). Simple plug and play set up when connected HDMI port and satellite cable.Very easy use guide.The remote cane be used to work the TV but you'll need to go to the Humax website to download the code list.All in all, very happy with this box.

I recently cancelled my Sky subscription after realising that most of what we watched was on Freeview and also subscribing to Netflix. I bought the Humax to watch freesat and because with an attached USB hard drive, I could record programmes and I could live pause and rewind. Unfortunately, after a few weeks of using the Humax, the live pause and rewind no longer worked. Humax's only solution was to reformat the USB hard drive and therefore losing all my recordings. So reformat I did and everything work fine. Then 10 days later the same thing happened again. After googling the issue I found that many Humax customers have the same issue and Humax have no fix.This Humax is a p1$$ poor substitute for a Sky box. If you are thinking of a Freesat box, buy another brand. You will only have grief with Humax.

I particularly like the Android app for this device. I use it more than the remote.Program recording is very easy. It did take a few minutes to find out how to stop a recording in progress though so I could change the channel.Pause feature works great.I did waste some time trying to get a USB stick working until I discovered they aren't supported. However I did have an old external drive that I could attach and it worked fine.I would definitely recommend this set top box.

Only found out the item is not new, my fault, didn’t read the very small, small print.However, both remote and device have not been cleaned. Fingerprints, dirty, and not factory reset, still had old postcode data.Generally, not professional!

Good quality picture. Takes a bit of playing around to get to know functions. Bit disappointed the channel number can't be seen on front of box when switched on but overall I am happy with it. As I don't live in the UK I can't use playback function but knew that before purchasing. Would recommend.

The first one that I had refused to record but was replaced immediately by Amazon and the second one is perfect.Lots to navigate around but, once mastered, is fine.Great picture and recordings - you need an external HDD for this. One without its own power supply works on my set.