Fusion FVRT200 Digital Video Recorder 80GB

nordberg

mitchb wrote: »

I believe its faulty. My step dad bought one as well and his didnt have any issue on signal, even tried mine round at his, no joy.

His did howevre have a strange problem in that the system took 2 minutes to respond to any button press, remote or on the front of the pvr, it alos lost the channels every time it was switched off. I managed to fix this by restoring to factory defaults, which was the same firmware.

Seems its pot luck if they work or not.

I posted a very negative review to microdirects website but they havent added, probably nevre will, so i wouldnt go by the reviews on their website, seems they only pick the good ones.

OK thanks for that. Will send it back....

So much for their supposed 24hr test.....

johnydeath

It would be interesting to see the percentage of good ones to rogue ones.

I get the impression that this was bought as a job lot of returns and they have not been actually individually tested and refurbished.

Mine should arrive tomorrow. It would be nice if it worked well.

There are lots of articles via Google on how to replace the internal capacitors on the PSU, upgrade the HDD and even add a USB socket on the back.

They are not too expensive on Thiefbay, and you may get a better one?

PoorPaul

mitchb wrote: »

Im returning mine and have an email from their customer servcies to say they will refund delivery up to the cost of £11.?? . Mine was faulty on arrival

Yes, good news - e-mail from Customer Services today:

Please arrange to send this item to us. We will refund up to a maximum of £11.75 for the cost of the returns postage. Please keep your receipt for the postage we may ask for this as proof of postage. You can redeem this cost once the item has been authorized by our returns department for a refund/replacement/repair.

johnydeath

Got mine today. Initial view is that it looks to work ok, couple of minor blemishes. Looks like a new remote and new handbook.

Found I had no signal strength at all to start with, but a scan of the channels found them all, and eventually signal strength was around 55-60% on both tuners.

Seems to record ok. If it carrys on working I'll be happy.

Jazzy_B

I got one of these today, and it seemed to work fine.
Three hours down the line and I can't switch tuners. Any idea if I've done something wrong, or is it faulty?


Got it sorted now.

johnydeath

64 back in stock but just 6 months warranty now

http://www.microdirect.co.uk:80/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=16874


I don't suppose anyone thought to take a snapshot of the original page showing the year warrany did they??

Ah - disregard it's on the order confirmation email

spend_spend_spend

johnydeath wrote: »

64 back in stock but just 6 months warranty now

http://www.microdirect.co.uk:80/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=16874


I don't suppose anyone thought to take a snapshot of the original page showing the year warrany did they??

Ah - disregard it's on the order confirmation email

Looks to me like they are circling stock... soon be down to 20 units and 3 month warranty

StockportGerbil

I notice the FRVT200 is now down to £54 at Microdirect, with the bigger disc and the better firmware that may be the way to go.

Taking another look the FVRT150 is available for £49, dunno about the firmware but it's also got an 80Gb disc

Jazzy_B

The refurb FRVT150 with 80gb is £49.34 at microdirect

bobothebear

My FRVT100 had the already mentioned problem of tuner 2 not working at all.
I returned it on Friday and received an email this morning to say the replacement is being sent out.
I was quite impressed with the box with the somewhat limited functionality it had, so heres hoping my new one works perfectly.