The Humax HDR-FOX T2 Freeview HD recorder’s been on our radar since it was first announced way back in December of last year, but now the set top box peddler has finally seen fit to fully spec it out, with a price and launch date to boot.

Humax’s first Freeview HD tuner, the HD-FOX T2, went on sale earlier this year, and come July, it’s following it up with its first PVR for the new free to air HD service, the Humax HDR-FOX T2. It’s due out in July for around £349, with a 500GB hard drive, capable of storing 125 hours of HD video at one time.

Read our Humax HD-FOX T2 review now

As expected, the Humax HDR-FOX T2 will also play back photos, music (MP3s) and video (Formats still TBC) from a USB port, and connect to your home network to for content sharing with PCs through an ethernet cable.

We’re not sure what’s taken Humax so long to get the Humax HDR-FOX T2 to market when Panasonic’s already shipping a vastly more feature packed Freeview HD+ box and Blu-ray recorder, the Panasonic DMR BW880. We’ll be chasing one down for a review as soon as possible, but in the meantime, if you want to watch the World Cup in HD without a subscription, you’ll need to look elsewhere.

Out July | £349 | Humax

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  • zach_manchester

    I rue the day that I bought my non-recording Humax Fox T2 HD set top box. There is a fault that affects all of the boxes where that only the left channel works. To hear the soundtrack in stereo only (no Dolby Digital on this box), you have to select stereo each time you change a channel.
    This has been known by Humax since the release of the box and they have not fixed it.

    Also, there has been no update to use iPlayer or to record via the USB interface.

    I would steer clear, to be honest.

  • metaman

    Ridiculous that they aren’t getting this out before the World Cup, which is going to be the biggest HD event for a while. Looking elsewhere now..

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