What's the best value Freeview PVR?

goldengambler

chardir wrote: »

Fairly open question this so all answers welcome...

What's the best value Freeview PVR? And where's best to get one?

Note: best value, not necessarily cheapest.

Thanks in advance!

:j I have had 4 Thomson Top-Tv Pvr's in 15 months and they all kept on locking up or just freezing and unable to clear despite Top -up technicians help they even told me of a different model that they were trying out as an alternative. at least as I had bought them from Argos they had a no Quibble warranty to either replace or refund. I decided to cancel the Top-up TV contract as I am sure that some of the problems were caused by
corrupt recordings that they would delete which could be annoying if they were your favourite programmmes and I bought a Bush BTU250DTR for £99
for the main TV and a Bush BTU320DTR for £87, a better bargain for the bedroom TV and I have had no problems since.
P.S. I agree with the comments about the Humax PVR it is an excellent model but I will wait until there are more HD channels and then go to the
Freesat model it is cheaper than buying a Freesat TV. Richer Sounds are the best place for the lowest prices other than E-bay.

cvw55

parsley_the_cat wrote: »

'Graded' as in returned unwanted...

twin tuner (watch 1 channel while recording another 1)

12 months guarantee!

Only 39.99 including delivery!

http://www.pvrempire.co.uk/product_i...products_id=55

sounds good - i was looking at PVR Empire earlier - has anyone had anything from them before? are they ok?

cvw55

cvw55 wrote: »

Hi, can anyone recommend a decent Freeview recorder for under £100. I've been researching all day and read a lot of mixed reviews!

thanks

i think what i need is freeview recorder/dvd player combined.

would this do the job? it says freeview in the title but the techno-babble confuses me! apologies, im a total techno-no-brain...!

http://www.pvrempire.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=84

or should i just get a freeview+ box??

Inactive

parsley_the_cat wrote: »

'Graded' as in returned unwanted...

twin tuner (watch 1 channel while recording another 1)

12 months guarantee!

Only 39.99 including delivery!

http://www.pvrempire.co.uk/product_i...products_id=55

" Pvr801 Hard Disk Recorder with a massive 80gb hard drive. "

:rotfl::rotfl:

Idiophreak

Inactive wrote: »

" Pvr801 Hard Disk Recorder with a massive 80gb hard drive. "

:rotfl::rotfl:

can only assume it's a foot wide

judderman62

another Humax 9200 user here. Was great for a good while but now for a long time , prob over a year, it has been utter rubbish.

Does not respond to remote, locks up/freezes, last night stopped part way through a recording and would not play the rest - all sorts of issues constantly - sick to death of it.

will be looking for a new one and very doubtful I will consider a humax.

Oh and I tried the reset from the menu thing last night which did not see my box play rest of recording and indeed lost me most of the recording.

macman

judderman62 wrote: »

another Humax 9200 user here. Was great for a good while but now for a long time , prob over a year, it has been utter rubbish.

Does not respond to remote, locks up/freezes, last night stopped part way through a recording and would not play the rest - all sorts of issues constantly - sick to death of it.

will be looking for a new one and very doubtful I will consider a humax.

Oh and I tried the reset from the menu thing last night which did not see my box play rest of recording and indeed lost me most of the recording.

Don't know if this applies to the older models, but Humax boxes now have a 2 year warranty. Is yours older than that?

judderman62

think it may well be yes

Woby_Tide

judderman62 wrote: »

another Humax 9200 user here. Was great for a good while but now for a long time , prob over a year, it has been utter rubbish.

Does not respond to remote, locks up/freezes, last night stopped part way through a recording and would not play the rest - all sorts of issues constantly - sick to death of it.

will be looking for a new one and very doubtful I will consider a humax.

Oh and I tried the reset from the menu thing last night which did not see my box play rest of recording and indeed lost me most of the recording.

Has it updated to the latest software each time it's been released, and have you done the obvious stuff like resetting the factory settings/clearing disk to see if that helps?

judderman62

all except the cleaning disc thing - how does one do that ?