Thomson DHD4000 - Excellent Freeview Twin Tuner PVR £99.99 at Argos

mercurystar999

Problem being the cable is run in the wall. Even with the aerial inside the loft, would taking a direct feed from the aerial to the box improve the signal?

quoia

mercurystar999 wrote:

Problem being the cable is run in the wall. Even with the aerial inside the loft, would taking a direct feed from the aerial to the box improve the signal?

I'd suggest moving the same aerial outside (and extending the original cable with a "dreaded join") would significantly increase both signal strength AND signal quality. This improvement will almost certainly be far greater than replacing the cable with superdooper stuff and keeping the aerial where it is.

mercurystar999

But isn't that all the splitter is, a join? Anyone know where i can buy a bracket to fix it on the side of the house?

darkteckno

Looks a great price, nearly went and got one on impulse but remembered I have topuptv. So if anyone wants my reservation code in bournemouth let me know!!

Jon

irnbru_2

quoia wrote:

Can't see why they would want to know anyway- it's TVs that are licenced not tuners!

Since it can receive TV broadcasts, assuming it's tuned in, then you require a license.

cpdpurcell

Can you get one of these that has a USB connection? I've got a 400 gig external hard drive for my laptop so it would be nice to plug it into one of these boxes and increase the capacity for free.

Thanks in advance

mediaman

anyone know if this PVR can record thru the scart cable. I would like a cheap PVR but Freeview is not available to me.
thanks

thechubbyone

Just a word of warning about these. I'be had 2 from Argos in the past two days and both have gone back. They both had the same fault of working for the first 20 minutes or so, but then crashing, with the picture turning to either a digital snowstorm or blank, sometimes with sound, sometimes not.

The way they crashed would suggest it may be a heat problem, but it was on an open shelf by itself, so I don't see that I could have done any more for it.

Having had 2 do the exact same thing, I'm surprised nobody else has experienced problems.

quoia

irnbru wrote:

Since it can receive TV broadcasts, assuming it's tuned in, then you require a license.

But so can EVERY VCR, EVERY DVD Recorder, EVERY PVR, EVERY PC TV Card, & EVERY Freeview Set-Top Box.

I've NEVER been asked for any details EXCEPT when buying a TV ITSELF !

irnbru_2

quoia wrote:

NEVER been asked for any details EXCEPT when buying a TV ITSELF !

That makes you the exception not the rule.