SX Freesat HD Box

Our old box packed up so I was looking around for a replacement and chose this after reading some reviews on it. Quick to install, and simple guide on-screen to set up. You input your postcode and it sets your region etc for where you are. Easy. I find it great to have a dedicated button for subtitles and more importantly audio descriptions at the touch of a button when they are being broadcast for that particular programme. It is very simple to add extra channels (once you know how to, probably not for the faint-hearted or average user though because you need to know the technical aspects for each so unless you know what I am on about don't try or you can mess it up!) All-in-all, it is a small box with big features for it's size. Great picture, all 13 HD channels straight out of the box on Freesat using our old SKY dish pointing at Astra at 28.2 degrees so it should work for anyone in a similar situation. EPG is great, 7 days EPG, quick menu for now and next and simple to add reminders whereby the box changes the channel for you with a pop-up that it is going to change to your reminder in 59 secs if you do nothing or you can just select 'OK' to change it immediately. I am really pleased with this and would certainly buy another if I had to. 2 year warranty when you register it online (you have to upload proof of purchase as a PDF / scan / image etc). Please note this box does not record but Manhattan make other boxes that do, we did not need that so I did not bother as this suits us fine for our needs. Highly recommended!

Arrived so quickly I was impressed at the speed. It was well packaged, small and compact, easy to use and connect to my tv and the satellite dish. Happy with this purchase and recommend it.

Had one of these running for four years now. That, in itself, is good - my unit has been reliable. Positives are that the EPG is nice and responsive, it's correctly outputting 5.1 + HD via HDMI when broadcasters make it available. Negatives are that the unit runs very hot and boot up time is very slow. It's a good, clean, fuss-free Freesat solution that liberates you from an internet connection and works reliably.

So easy to install, set up was fast , small, lightweight and fast response. Remote control come with batteries supplied, stable, solid made just excellent quality.

Auto setup. Just switched on and it setup all the channels in the right order. Very nice menu/channel guide. Very easy to use. Wee bit slow on startup but then again most things seem that way these days. Excellent box, very pleased with purchase. Slight niggle - signal strength/quality not visible.

Very good quality. Easy to use.

Worked straight out of the box. You get everything you need to connect it to your TV. You get the Manhattan Freesat box. Power cable. HDMI cable also you get a scart connection for older tv's also you can use RGB leads that plug straight into your TV. These also plug into the scart adapter if you don't have RGB. But all modern tvs use hdmi. The picture quality is very good to say it's 1080HD. To set the box up you just enter your postcode. And follow the on screen instructions very easy to setup. If you turn the box off using the remote you will see the Manhattan logo. Then you will see please wait this is only because it's downloading the TV guide. You get a TV guide but what I like most about it is if your watching a TV channel but the same channel is available in HD then it asks you would you like to watch it in HD press OK button and it will turn over the channel to HD. Loads of channels to choose from. If you prefer to watch all the channels that are available in HD they are in the higher numbers like BBC HD etc etc. Lots of Christmas movies channels on at the moment it's November 2022. The remote is very easy to use. You get a volume button but that only highers the volume on the box. After that you will need your TV remote to turn the volume up higher. Channel button up and down. TV guide button. And you can enter the TV channel you want to watch by using the TV guide or just the numbers on the remote.

As a Freesat box I found this to be good value, easy to install and worked well. However, I soon realised that it does not have one of the facilities I was looking for. It does not have HDMI-CEC built in. This means that you cannot pass control of the box to the remote control unit of the television set to which it is connected. This was an important omission in my view as I find it really annoying having the confusion of two remote units at hand in order to have complete control of what I am watching.

Excellent device which has greatly improved access to UK TV to our Philips kitchen set in France. Even the sound has improved. It was delivered very promptly.

Plugin and follow the instructions - everything is up and running within 10 minutes. Small, compact and good. Highly recommended to watch UK TV in Europe.

Ich habe diesen Artikel als Geschenk für einen Freund gekauft, der sich sehr darüber freut. Rechtzeitig angekommen Guter Dienst

This is perfect for uk freesat 100%.