Humax Foxsat HDR Reviews

The brilliant Foxsat-HDR is certainly the best freesat personal video recorder on the market at the moment. It's as well designed as it is easy to use, sounds great and has an excellent picture quality that we can't really fault, although ...

Styling ; picture and sound quality ; decent connectivity

Hard drive could be bigger ; component out would have been handy

As the first freesat PVR on the market, the Humax Foxsat-HDR would have sold even if it was utter rubbish. Luckily, it's brilliant and anyone who buys one will have a sturdy, easy-to-use machine that looks fantastic under their TV and boasts ...

Using a fraction of the power a Sky HD box uses in stand-by the Humax Foxsat-HDR struts into the High-Definition set-top box room with a smug grin on its face and an eco-badge on its lapels.

Decent EPG and menu system. Excellent picture quality

Limited High-Definition content

With eye-blisteringly crisp pictures, a whopping 300GB hard drive, a simple menu and some prime green credentials, the Humax Foxsat-HDR is one foxy HD set-top box.

Freesat is aiming to carve a major role for itself in TV's post-analogue age, competing against Freeview, Sky and cable/broadband operators. For those unable to receive a terrestrial signal, it represents a viable multi-channel TV (and radio) option. ...