Humax Supersmart Rx-PVR
This new 'super-smart' compact Humax recorder gives you everything you need to be in full control of your TV viewing. With Freetime, the award-winning TV Guide from Freesat, you can use the Roll Back TV guide across 26 channels, to watch shows you’ve missed from the last seven days. Enjoy the best of Catch Up TV with BBC iPlayer, ITV player, All 4, Demand 5 and YouTube.
Plus recommended top TV picks of cool stuff to watch, chosen daily by Freesat’s editorial team. Choose from over 200+ channels, including sport, news, movies, kids, music and entertainment; with eleven in picture perfect High Definition. Plus, you can pause, rewind and record your favourite programmes and all at the touch of a button.
Full details and a special offer can be found HERE.
Humax 1100s satelite receiver
Freesat App
You can also use the clever little App from Freesat, to plan and control your TV viewing, when you’re at home or out and about. Set up couldn’t be easier with Built In Wi-Fi connection to your Broadband will be ready in no time! *ITV Hub (Player) available in England, Wales and the Channel Islands. Check out your App store for this great new way to access radio.
The new and improved sleek HUM-HB1100s Free sat receiver in black now features built-in Wi-Fi to allow you to receive catch up TV from the BBC iPlayer, All 4, Demand 5 and the ITV Hub as well as other streaming services including Netflix.
If you prefer to use a wired connection for a more stable signal, the HB1100s still has an Ethernet port to allow for this type on connection. This subscription free box receives 200+ TV and radio channels, 13 of which are in 1080p High Definition. Although this model has no internal hard drive the USB port on the rear of the box allows for an external hard drive to be connected to permit you to record your favourite programmes as well pausing and rewinding of live action.
The easy to use award winning on-screen TV guide allows you to quickly select your chosen at the touch of a button. The HB1100s has a unique showcase section which identifies the must watch programmes for today and the next few days.
Available NOW from Amazon for next day delivery.
Technomate TM-5402 HD M3
PVR-ready, digital FTA satellite receiver
Based on the highest rated satellite receiver...ever! (92% by What Satellite magazine*), the new HD range is even better! With its gleaming piano black finish, the TM-5402 HD M2 Super looks great in your cabinet. With it you can now watch channels in glorious High-Definition (HD), Full HD 1080p with Dolby Digital Plus which will give you and your guests a superior audio experience.
The Tecnhics TM-5042 is also 3D ready. but also has Standard Definition (SD) channels. It has the latest built-in hardware Upscaler to improve the picture quality of SD channels via its HDMI output. To record all your favourite channels, simply add a Hard Disc Drive of your choice.
The receiver has a channel memory of 10,000 channels meaning you can store every TV & Radio channels you could ever want. For searching, there's a 'blind search' tuner - far more accurate than software versions of blind search.
The Ethernet port allows you to connect to your network for access to YouTube, check your local weather, view maps and listen to online radio.
The Technomate can record up to 3 channels (on the same transponder) whilst watching a file from your USB HDD. You can even watch the .avi and .mkv file formats.
The satellite tuner is super sensitive to pick up weak signals and weak transponders so is excellent for findi8ng that difficult DX station.
To watch the same channel on another TV, there's an RF modulator at the rear of the satellite receiver, so you can send the channels you choose to another room. It's even Eco-friendly with only 1 watt standby power consumption.
Available now
via Amazon for less than £95 - definitely a bargain!
There are now thousands of radio channels being transmitted by satellite and almost all are free to receive. Some are digital; but most have now gone over to digital transmission. The receivers have tumbled in price in recent years with first class units now being available from the likes of Technosat, Sony and Humax for less than £100.
These units will not only give you access to thousands of radiop channels (which a suitable dish) but do so at high quality, often with Dolby surround sound. The receivers will also give you access to thousands of TV channels from all over the world.
Explore, and enjoy!
Astra satellites broadcast a host of digital radio stations to listeners across Europe. Sharing the satellite airwaves with the TV channels, satellite radio delivers music, speech, drama, news, debate and more, in many languages, and from both national broadcasters and small independent stations.
Satellite radio is broadcast in top-quality digital audio with crystal clear sound, whatever the weather conditions, and is available to anyone with a simple dish and satellite receiver.
No Borders
As an alternative to the local terrestrial radio broadcasts, radio via satellite reaches all across the continent, and stations can be enjoyed in countries far from their homeland.
Astra is currently carrying over 2500 radio channels (as at June 2017) which can be easily received with a small 60cm dish (2 foot). Full details of the stations can be found HERE.
Thousands of
radio stations, by satellite
There are now thousands of radio channels being transmitted by satellite and almost all are free to receive. Some are digital; but most have now gone over to digital transmission. The receivers have tumbled in price in recent years with first class units now being available from the likes of Technosat, Sony and Humax for less than £100.
These units will not only give you access to thousands of radiop channels (which a suitable dish) but do so at high quality, often with Dolby surround sound. The receivers will also give you access to thousands of TV channels from all over the world.
Explore, and enjoy!