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Originally Posted by sammyjayuk

Humax boxes certainly seem to be worth the extra - after my mum had a year of hell with a Thomson Freeview recorder, I decided to spend a bit more money and get her a Humax (via some awful Goodmans thing from Tesco's, which we only had for about 12 hours because it missed 3 recordings out of 5!).

The interface is really, really idiosyncratic - there seem to be two ways of doing some things, and I'm buggered if I can figure out how to work the editing features - but it can search the guide and is (almost) as solid as a rock, which is obviously the most important thing about a recorder!

Twin tuners seem to have become the de facto standard for digital recorders - I wouldn't buy a single tuner hard drive recorder, if I could even find one (although, in fairness, I haven't looked).

LNBs are supposed to be fairly easy to change (although I seem to remember that the LNB fits onto a Sky dish's arm differently than it would to any other dish, but I can't really remember - perhaps ask on Digital Spy) - but remember that you'll need to run another cable. Also, depending on how high up the dish is, it might be safer to get an installer to do it - even the professionals can have accidents!

Sam

---------- Post added at 17:55 ---------- Previous post was at 17:46 ----------

Thanks for the word of caution on installation - poor guy! Luckily my dish is only halfway up, so should be pretty safe to do!