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Is This Freeview PVR Any Good?

nordtraveller
nordtraveller Posts: 5,061 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
It's cheap, its reconditioned, its from Maplins, But what Make/model is it?

Does anyone know? If i could find out i could maybe read some reviews on it?

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=353769#features
Oh what's the bloody point...?

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  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 15 December 2009 at 5:27PM
    Main problem is the tiny hard drive. The current Humax boxes have 320GB or 500GB drives. You might well get away with less than that for your purposes, but 80GB will only let you store approx 40 hours of programmes.
    If you can live with that, you can't go far wrong for £40.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • ben500
    ben500 Posts: 23,192 Forumite
    I'd agree with mac, for £40 if you don't have large storage requirements then this is an ideal bit of kit, I manage perfectly well with an 80g drive on my Thompson DV3, the only problem I've experienced is sometimes it can get a little noisy at times. You may even be able to increase the capacity by bunging in a bigger hd if you have one available.
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