Freeview Set Top Box - £23.60 at M&S - plus free delivery is spend over £30

Jetset_Jac

Been looking for a really cheap set top box - as M&S has 20% off some electronics at moment then this seems like a good deal

http://www.marksandspencer.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=1&Section_Id=&pcount=&Product_Id=1862797

Use code given on page for free delivery is you spend over £30.00

Brockyman

It is a Sagem ITD59. This is a good price but this Digibox only has a single Scart output. This means that it is not ideal if you want to connect a video/DVD recorder, it can be done but is a bit of a parp. Very good for just viewing though.
Ian.

fairytooth

Have you thought about checking other opinions of this model before you buy it? Sagem doesn't get especially good reviews and the ITD59 looks like an older model. Check this out:

http://www.reviewcentre.com/products232.html

If nothing else it shows how much variation there is between freeview boxes and that cheap may not be good value.

talkshop

I had a Sagem once, but had to take it back. It was horrible and French

LULUBELLE_2

talkshop wrote:

I had a Sagem once, but had to take it back. It was horrible and French

:rotfl:

They've got a Pure DAB radio on there, £47.20 inc delivery. Great deal!

Johntea

Argos have a Digihome one for £24.99

Not sure what it will be like though

I'm still on a onDigital box

competitionscafe

LULUBELLE wrote:

They've got a Pure DAB radio on there, £47.20 inc delivery. Great deal!

When Which? tested these (Pure Elan) though they said "Easy to use but is not up to the standards of some other models from Pure." and they gave it a low score for sound quality.

This one is a better model - unfortunately it is also more than twice the price!
http://www.goaudio.co.uk/pure-evoke-23083-description.html

Would be interested to hear if anyone has a Pure Elan-DX20 what they think of it?

Jetset_Jac

Thanks for everyone's opinion. It's only for the spare room so I;m gonna go with it as I need some other stuff from sparks.

Cheers & Happy Easter

kevinyork

Johntea wrote:

Argos have a Digihome one for £24.99

Not sure what it will be like though

I'm still on a onDigital box

Got through 2 faulty ones of these before taking them both back for refunds...still looking for another one like my Echostar....that was from Argos a year ago and has been superb but they dont sell them anymore.


Kev

geejaygee

I recently looked on the AV forums for freeview boxes, and got the Durabrand one from Asda for £27.87 - for the price it has two scart lead outputs (and one scart lead supplied), a seven day electronic program guide (EPG) and the ability to set up to five timers so you can get the box to automatically tune to the same program once, daily or even weekly - useful if you want to record whole series or a week of 'Neighbours' if you're away.

Two slight downsides, you can't 'bottom flick' (i.e. see what is on other channels while you look at the first) or reorder the sequence of channels in your list, but otherwise an excellent box for under thirty quid.