Our new house has what appears to be only a pair of satellite signal cables coming to the area where the TV bracket is installed, and it would be a pain to install terrestrial cables instead (probably ripping up the whole concrete floor!) so, despite never having used satellite before I'm now looking for a freesat box.

Looking around Ebay, the Humax Foxsat-HDR is what I notice the most. It appears to be quite an old product, but is only about 50 quid and presumably should view, record and play freesat channels. My question is, is there any reason it wouldn't work? Have satellite broadcast standards changed in the last 10 or so years? Different codecs, or anything like that that would obsolete older boxes? Presumably the EPG and programme recording would work the same as it did back then?

Also am I right in thinking that the satellite dish receivers (LNBs) don't need power, or get it from the box they are connected to? (I.e. they don't need separate power supplies.)

I'm hoping things haven't changed too much and I should just be able to grab one of these older boxes relatively cheaply, plug it into the satellite cables and the TV/amp, and not have to spend more time thinking about how to get basic TV channels and recording/playback working for my parents.