Comments on: Comet to sell Humax online again from tomorrow

By: Johnstone

Johnstone — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:36:33 +0000

Went into comet shrewsbury i must admit from my recen tcomet experiences i expected poor service, but how wrong was i. I was in and out within 10 mins wit ha brand new freesat box with installation next week, great service i was offered everythign i could possibly need to benefit my viewing, from cables to surgeprotecters to there amazing back upservice, come on the freesat, and come on the comet.

By: TONY HUNT

TONY HUNT — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:12:06 +0000

You cant be serious buying freesat. Why pay £200 to get 80 channels when you can spend the same amount and get 2 to 3000 channels for the same money. I have been watching free to air satellite tv for the past three years with a motorised dish. I get from China to Europe and all the channels you will get with a freesat box plus another 300 channels off the Astra2 satellite. You can get the equipment from Maplins & they will answer all your questions or search the net for “FREE TO AIR SATELLITE SYSTEMS”. Best buy 90cm dish. I dont work for Maplins im retired

By: SB Heaven

SB Heaven — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:00:19 +0000

Yes as everyone is saying it is back on the Comet website and will pick mine up tonight

By: Leonard Harpin

Leonard Harpin — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:21:32 +0000

I bought a freesat bush digital box from Argos on 6th of may you have to bye dish seppert not from Argos but have not set it up as yet .it cost £ 119-19 did not havethe installed . would have been £ 80-00 thought it was a bit to mutch.

By: Steve Carlson

Steve Carlson — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:40:50 +0000

Amazed by the lack of hardware at launch. if you’re interested, we released a quick podcast discussing the launch, and reviewing the Humax Foxsat – listen online at http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/freesat.html

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:28:26 +0000

They’re back on the Comet website, just ordered one for delivery on Friday.

By: SB Heaven

SB Heaven — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:40:21 +0000

At 0740 nothing is available on the comet site!

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:57:09 +0000

Theres plenty in Stoke-on-Trent, Want me to send you one ?

Or you could try ebay, theres two on there – which are bound to go for more than the £150 price tag..

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:44:05 +0000

What about the Humax iCord HD PVR 350gb – anyone know when it will be widely available in UK stores i.e. not from Europe or eBay?

By: Pete in Weymouth

Pete in Weymouth — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:21:07 +0000

I went into Comet and Currys today looking for the newley installed -all singing, all dancing, flashing lights- desplays for freesat. When I couldn’t see it I thort it must be berried behind stacks of boxes containing all the different Freesat receivers.

No and no.

No in store displays
No Freesat receivers

I asked in Currys and was told it is comming out next year. When I said it is laurnch day today they looked it up on there computer system (it looked like it was a instore system with info for the staff to pass onto custimers. Not like the Currys on line site) It had some schpeal about Freesat that seemed very lite on the info and a bit dated. After reading it the member of staff said I could try a larger store but it was not in this branch. (Weymouth’s Currys isn’t a shoebox size branch)

Over to Comet.

The sales assistent who hadn’t heard of Freesat last week until I told him a little about it came over to me quite excited. He had found out all about it and was waiting for it to come into Weymouth’s branch (reading between the lines, I think after finding out all about it he wanted one for himself too). He said the Grundigs had a problem and all needed a softwere upgrade so would not be around for a bit but he was hoping to have the Humax in after the weekend.

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Now to my point.

We have known about this for months now.
06.05.08 has been the date roumered to the public for a long time.
So why (no the hole) is there no product in any shops?
Why (no the hole) are serches on shop’s web sites still comming back with 0 results for Freesat.

(on the hole again) Staff in the shops still clueless.

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This is all terning into a joke. The sad thing is it is on us, the consumer.

Freesat with all thair secrecy.
BBC and ITV on the underwelming announcement and reporting of Freesat.
All the retailers for been clueless and not having any stock.