NEW Freeview HD Digital TV Receiver Tuner Set Top Box Terrestrial + USB Port Schedule Program Recorder

Great value for the price..does exactly what you want from this compact little device..10/10.

Very good

First of all the instructions are useless. There are no specific instructions how to record a programme or even how to play back if you can record - which I could not!I managed to get the list of programmes, but had to be switched off and on again before a full list appeared. I then used common sense to record a program, but it just gave the start and finish time as the actual time of day! I went into every single menu to attempt to correct this but no luck, so I manually put in the start and finish time as shown in a separate TV guide. It did not record. I might add that I spend over two hours this morning attempting to get it to work without success.I really should have taken notice of the 14 single star ratings that it had been given, and not the glowing ones, that to me were very suspect indeed. I am returning it.Tom CrossleyAlso, the picture is of poor quality. I should add that I have another SD card recorder, but wanted two as I record programmes at home on a SD card at home then play them on a boat. I chose this one as it had more features. My first recorder gave a much better picture, even with the Scart cable as it had the ability to alter the picture size, which the new DVB-T does not.

Tradional tuner box. Medium sized You get a lot in the box cables - scart, remote control cable.Changing channels is slow because program info loads simulataneously.The device has many options that you have to be sure are set. If you are watching freeview all you channels will be higgledypiggeldy and have weird numbers unless you set the program option LCN to "ON" and sort to "By LCN". The TV format should be PAL not the unwatchable foreign and pc format NTSC.This device doesn't have so many setting options (like setting screen transparency, being able to constantly show a digital clcok or seeing multiple channels on the EPG and visually (1 live and 8 stills ), as its cheaper tiny version, but there are compensations such as recording in advance which you can't on the cheaper version.Like the cheaper version you can have USB and camera card in a the same time for extra capacity. You can record by time where it will record any station you flick on to. You record in advance by accessing the book list via the "info" button via the EPG only. One fault is the colour action buttons don't match the remote but the order is correct so the first button instead of being blue is red ot he remote but the action is still "Add"(a recording).The MAGIC thing I have discovered is that although it doesn't have 2 tuners, which allow you to record and watch any channel, this particular device accidently has the next best thing depending on which chanel you are reocrding you can record and watch from 2 - 20ish other channels as long as they are on the same freqeuncy chanel. Freeview channels are usually from 21 to 29 (find it by doing a manual search) the BBC ones are all on 23 so you can record BBC1 which watching any other BBC channels. The majority of Channel4 stuff is on 26 but a few things like E4+1 are on 22 so you couldn't watch that while recording Film4.The device occasionally resets itself making you lose things. This is annoying as i am constantly having to turn on the subtitiltes, which you have to do via menu not a simple remote button like on the cheaper version. When it resets the last channel stored in the last channel button (that useful button which allows you to flick between the current and last channel) just remains on the current channel. However since i removed the device from the powerdown plug it doesn't reset/ turn the TV off or to standby (like its cheaper version does every 5 mins, both on and off the powerdown plug ) unless it warns you in advance by its power saving inactivity system.

Instructions of this product are not clear enough and font is far too small for most readers

It is great got it for my dad as his now tv freeview box stopped working I can use it ok but my 76yr old dad not as quick with it but he'll get there gets all the channels he go b4 as his tv did get all the channels he had b4 so that's y I ordered him this box.

Does not fulfill expectations

I love this product. It does exactly what I want it to do - records TV onto a memory stick/hard disk for me to put onto my plex server for watching later on. So for those who are wanting some more detail as to what it does here goes. Connecting the box is very simple and the set-up is too. I have a good signal here so I got all the channels I would get on a more expensive tuner. The picture is pretty good, maybe a little soft for some but I find it acceptable (it is very similar to the quality you would get with a DVD recorder from about 10 years ago). I am using a 8GB Lexar USB drive which plugs into the side of the unit, I might get a larger capacity one later on. I did try and use the SD card reader slot with a SanDisk 32GB MicroSD card with an adapter but it could not read the card to write to it. Anyway, you use the EPG (which is a little slow, but it works) to find the programme you want to record - you then "book" it into the PVR, what is really cool is you can choose when to start and when to stop recording which is great to stop it from cutting off the intro or end of a programme (which used to wind me up silly with Sky+) - I often pad 10 minutes each side to avoid this from happening. Then I put the device into standby and leave it, the next day I unplug the USB drive and put it into my computer. The files are MTS format and record at the resolution of the program - so 576i for standard def or 1080p for HD content. The recordings come in at around 15000kbps of video bitrate which is very good, audio is set at 128kbps which is also plenty good enough. It is worth turning on deinterlacing in VLC to get an even clearer picture. What is really neat is that it will record whatever aspect ratio the content was broadcast in, so for older programmes (that are the ones I want to record) it will record them in the proper 4:3 format, but then click back to 16:9 for adverts.The only issues I have with this item are:- The controller is pretty rubbish, buttons are squishy and don't always register and the layout is very confusing with terms that seem confusing- If you unplug a USB drive from the device it will sometimes get upset and then refuse to record to the USB drive - to remedy this you just need to turn the device off and then back on again with the USB connected (i think this is because it possibly runs on a Linux operating system which often has issues with drives that have not been removed properly)