Humax pvr-9200t freeview PVR - £171

williamh1

The Thomson DHD 4000 is a twin tuner PVR and comes in at under £130 - not a huge hard disc but it gets good reviews.

williams55

seriously , ive read all the reviews before buying . Im a bit of a tight wad , in my opinion the humax is best pvr on the market . Some may go with with the topfield but going with easy of use and since ive only had this today my view sticks with the humax . That could all change tomorrow if my recordings go pearshape though

Jamie_2-2

Does this unit have a slot to insert a Top-up TV card?

ramit

Jamie wrote:

Does this unit have a slot to insert a Top-up TV card?

yes it does have a slot.

I've had this machine for a year now, and its by far the best on the market when it comes to freeview.

The over the air software updates that keep happening, are introducing more and more new features making this machine better all the time.

I would definetly recommend to all!

Jamie_2-2

Thanks ramit, you've tipped the scales into me buying one part of the New Year cost cutting exercise will be to get this and ditch Sky. Mind you I was just reading about TUTV and it seems they've changed the rules now so you are being pushed into buying one of their boxes, and the price has gone up to £9.99/mo. I think Freeview alone will be good enough.

Poppycat

With the Humax it has twin tuiners, you can reciord two seperate programs and play back a previous recording. In some cases due to the nature of freeview you can record two programs and watch a 3rd depending on the channels

ka7e

williamh1 wrote:

The Thomson DHD 4000 is a twin tuner PVR and comes in at under £130 - not a huge hard disc but it gets good reviews.

I love my Thomson (although the 80GB hard drive fills surprisingly quickly), but they seem to have been discontinued.

williamh1

Thomson is still available via Amazon

soba

Been into Comet today to buy a Humax PVR9200T. We'd seen it up the road in Curry at £179.99 and at Comet it was £199.99, so we wanted a price-match. Whilst we were there DH saw a Sony Ericsson mobile - k750i, he's broken his old one this week and needed to replace it. The deal in Comet was to buy the phone for £89.99 including a £10 top-up e-voucher, and get a Proline DVD player for free. We didn't want a DVD player, and asked if we could leave it and get a bit more knocked off the recorder instead. No can do said the salesman. We settled for a price-match plus 10% of the difference on the Humax and took the phone and free DVD player as well. We were at the till for ages, the assistant had to ring Currys to check the price on the Humax, then there was a problem with the phone, etc. etc. So eventually we came away with the Humax recorder, a phone and a DVD player we didn't really need. We thought about ebaying it, but it's not worth much anyway. Just as we were about to leave the store, a guy turned up at the next till with a Proline DVD player, the same as we'd just got for free. We asked him how much it was going to cost - he said £25. We asked him if he'd like one cheaper, and sold him ours for half price, so £12.50!!! He must have thought it was his lucky day, and we had the same thought!!
So in essence we got the phone for a good price, price-matched on the Humax plus a bit more off, then another £12.50 off that, and off-loaded a DVD player we didn't need. Sorry about the long post, I just had to tell someone!!

Idiophreak

Just to add another big :T for the humax.

Couldn't watch tv without it now.