Humax F2-FOX

I bought 5 of these in Oct 2008 from John Lewis (best price) and chaned them serially throught he RF out...... 17 month later 4 of them have completely died.... my TV guy openned the box as he suspected an internal fuse mught be gone but the CB has not fuse and there is a print on it saying "unfusable"!!! Waste of money really - don't really understand why it was so highly rated by John Lewis!

Although its really easy to set up the 2 big problems are the resetting of the box to get the informaion about the programmes is a pan and also we had to reset the box and now cannot get ITV3 and ITV4 no matter how many times it is resetted.

The picture quality is great with the Humax F2-FOX, and the speed of channel change, settings... everything, is brilliant. Not a bad budget box, very good picture quality, fast channel change. Only bad point for me is there is no information displayed on channels on EPG. However still well recommend this Humax freeview box.

New hard drive fitted under warranty. Another year later looks like it is going wrong again: freezing picture, strange bad noise from machine (hard drive again I think), etc, etc. Appalling customer service. 1 hr on a 0870 number.

I won't buy Humax again. Got impressive recommendations when I bought it but reliability and customer service is poor.

The Humax F2-FOX could be a very fine freeview receiver if only the epg/program information issue could be resolved. I'd really have to say unless an update is released do not purchase this box. I've contact Humax several times regarding this issue and they have yet to respond which I find very disappointing, I believe they are aware of the issue but are yet to resolve it.In summary almost a great product but inherent software failings result in my recommendation of steer well clear of this box!

Compared with stb's under £20 (which most of us buy), the Humax F2-FOX is excellent.

Note, I got mine (2) off eBay for for under £20 (each) !

The Humax F2-FOX box has two very common faults (if not inherent to all units), namely that it will crash every 3-5 days and need to be turned off and on again at the mains to get it working again, and also that the TV program information for all channels disappears after the box has been on for a few hours. I have been in touch with Humax and there are aware of these issues, but offer no help in resolving them. Steer well clear of this box, and if you do some further research on web forums you will see there are a great many people experiencing the same problems.

It's finally died and I can't say I'm sorry. Humax offer almost no support and I won't buy one of their products again.

I have had one for around a year now had no problems with it at all if u don't want a digital free Veiw recorder then i would recommend this machine.

This Freeview box is a little more expensive than some of its competitors, but I think it's quality and reliability justifies its price.