Freeview Box Recommendation? (merged threads)

CashBash

Have you tried Richer Sounds?
They normally have some good deals.
Did a search and came up with the following results:

http://ws1.richersounds.co.uk/productlist.php?cda=productlist&sgroup=FREEVIEW&sort=price

worto03

I'm looking too - I'll have a look through your links.

I'd just like to add I DONT recomend the alba one that sainsburys are selling for around £30 quid. It often freezes & you have to unplug it, the box is very slow to respond to remote button presses & often does random things compared to the buttons you press even with new batteries in the remote.

Now after 3 months it's packed in all together just saying no signal in a blue box - I mailed thier tech support who told be to call out an aireal specialist as it was definately something wrong with my aireal out but after borrowing my friends boz last night which worked fine I'm just going to buy another box instead but a more expensive one & not an Alba one!

Shame I lost the reciept or I'd try to get my money back :mad:

cheers,
worto.

hulltrucker

worto03 wrote:

I'm looking too - I'll have a look through your links.

I'd just like to add I DONT recomend the alba one that sainsburys are selling for around £30 quid. It often freezes & you have to unplug it, the box is very slow to respond to remote button presses & often does random things compared to the buttons you press even with new batteries in the remote.

Now after 3 months it's packed in all together just saying no signal in a blue box - I mailed thier tech support who told be to call out an aireal specialist as it was definately something wrong with my aireal out but after borrowing my friends boz last night which worked fine I'm just going to buy another box instead but a more expensive one & not an Alba one!

Shame I lost the reciept or I'd try to get my money back :mad:

cheers,
worto.

My Alba Freeview box also packed up, but after about 15 months. Like you I didnt have the reciept but I complained to Maplin (where I bought it) and got a £15 good will payment. At the same time I complained to Alba, who not only passed me around the houses, but refused to do anything about it.

I have now bought the Digilogic box from Tesco's for £27.97, which I suspect is made by Goodmans/Alba/Bush, but seems quite good - has a 7 day EPG 2 scart sockets, comes with a scart lead, has the stereo audio out sockets so you can hook it into the Amplifier on your Hifi (good cheap way to get DAB) and does not lock up in the same way as the old Alba one used to. I did have some concerns that I was letting myself in for trouble by buying another "Alba" product, but I feel reassured that it this one gives up shortly after the 12 month guarantee runs out Tesco's will probably do more than Maplin (Maplin's customer service isnt the best in the world!)

Also noticed in Argos Hull this morning that they now have a box for under £25, but didnt get a chance to look and see what it's like.