Humax/F3-FOX T

The ‘fox on the box’ lives up to its billing, with excellent picture quality and a bargain price tag. A finer budget set-top you'll struggle to find

Great picture; good value

Not much

This is without doubt the worst piece of consumer electronics I have ever had the misfortune to come across - the specification is good on paper but in practice it has been unreliable and bug-laden, coupled with customer support that ranges from inept...

Like lots of other people who have made the mistake of buying this box, I have found to my extreme annoyance that its not fit for purpose. I am in the proccess of trying to get humax to replace the box with a different model as I am on my 2 replacement...

good image and sound quality

set up is easy but have experienced conflicts with overall control through the handset which results in frequently having to reset it all. This is annoying

sensative and easily tuned digital receiver

I would like some means of defragmenting the HDD, It can be formatted,but this means losing all recorded programs, even those I would like to keep

Easy to setup, good remote, good picture quality even on 4:3 TV, sensitive tuner, picks up all available channels.. Haven't had to reset it once yet, seems to be reliable

A bit pricey compared to other Freeview boxes, larger than most

This is one of the more expensive freeview players and so I was expecting it to be markedly better than its cheaper rivals. This, unfortunately, is not the case. There are two major ongoing technical issues that I have experienced with this box and I...

As with other reviewers (& widely reported elsewhere on forums), there is a problem with this box 'locking up' & becoming unresponsive. At present I have to re-boot & return to default settings every 5-7 days. Another reviewer reported, in line with my...

Very good quality picture, good channel capacity, and a good EPG planner, but... ...I got this box in June (2007) and noticed that after a couple of weeks the programme information dispappeared. I contacted Humax who said they'd broadcast a fix in...