Freesat feedback thread - Non Testers: what would you do with an extra £360 a year? You could win a Freesat+ box NOW CLOSED

Non tester - I would put the money towards a nice little break somewhere for my 50th

I'd take a weekend to London

I would put it towards my daughters upcoming university fees

Start paying off some debts more quickly

Go out for a meal - haven't done that in a long time!

I would take my family for a luxurious meal out

Go out for Sunday lunch once a month :D
Be lovely not to have to cook

£360? I think that would cover a short break away in a cottage in the Lakes

I would go deep sea fishing and stock my freezer!

I would treat the family to a little holiday

It would really help paying for commuting to and from work. Train fares keep rising!

I would use it to have a break away with my husband... And if we had a freesat box we could, of course, record any favourites to view on our return!

I would save it up and then treat my 3 grandchildren at Christmas.

I would use it to pay for petrol so I could visit my children/grandchildren every month.

I would give it all to my son and daughter to help them out as they both find it hard to make ends meet.

I would share it between my two lovely, hard-working daughters, to help them cope with the ever-increasing living expenses.

I think I'd look for a special hotel deal and take my hubby away for a weekend. Somewhere we could drive to in a few hours would be nice.

I would save the monthly savings and at the end of the year treat my family and friends to a lovely well deserved meal. To say thank you to them for looking after me a lot just recently, through ill health. (smile).

I'd spend on treating my grand children when they visit me.

I would hide the money away and then at the end of the year have a lovely holiday, preferably in the sun.

£360.00, a year, I'd put it towards the ever increasing gas/electric bills!!

Non Tester

£360 would pay for a wonderful camping holiday with my family and some add on children's friends, I could stretch the funds to include petrol, campsite fees, food for us, some visits while we're away, some ice creams and marshmallows for the bonfire.

The engineer was very efficient, installed the dish in jig time and asked for a vacuum cleaner in case there was any dust. The box itself is small and fits neatly into the space below the television.

There was a cable supplied for Internet connection, however our router is too far away from the tv so we bought a wireless wifi adapter which does the trick.

Our only tv is in the sitting room.

The on demand feature doesn't appear to give us ITV Player, which is a pity as I can't get it on my tablet either. I'm not entirely sure if it should be available though.

The most immediate benefit is a vast improvement to the picture quality with no loss of signal which happened frequently with our previous box.

As yet I haven't recorded anything but it looks simple enough. I'll have more opportunity over the next week or two to find my way around it and I'll post again.

We are now plugged into tinternet and are still really enjoying having it. The record feature is fantastic - it is possible to record three programmes all being shown at the same time (Whitechapel, QI and Science Britannica) whilst watching yet another - amazing.

We were surprised to see Youtube coming up as a channel choice but this is good news for me, as I often use the Choirparts channel to learn tricky pieces of choral works. Plus of course I shall now be able to play Peppa Pig videos ad nauseum to mt granddaughter. I think my daughter's family are going to be very happy when they next come to stay.

The iplayer for all channels works better with the humax than it does on my computer, because it is more powerful. I no longer get buffering and jumping pictures when I watch itvplayer, 4OD etc. BBC was the only one that worked ok before, basically because their servers and programme are better to start with! The buttons are easy to use on the remote, I like the two minute jump.

I don't think we had realised how much we missed being able to record things on our video player, then being able to watch at times that suited us, and pause when MIL invariably phones in the middle of a favourite programme to say 'Oh, you don't watch THAT do you?'.

My overall impression when the box arrived was that it looked very stylish and would fit in with the other gadgets under my TV in the lounge.

It was connected by the engineer (as I already had a dish) and he explained how to operate it.

Myself/ DH and Son find it easy to operate and scroll round the tv guide.
One comment regarding the tv guide is that it could be made a lot clearer which are the HD channels.

But so-far we find all the features (record/rewind/pause) very useful.