Reliable, easy to set up freeview box?

sasparillo

Hi,

I am looking for a reliable, easy to set up freeview box. While I would naturally like to pay as little as possible. I would pay a little more for reliability and sturdiness.

Can anybody tell me which are the universally recommended boxes eg which the magazines recommend and/or which people have found to be good through personal experience?

Thanks for your help on this. :xmassmile

stacey21_2

I bought one from Asda that was only £20, by Pacific, and its been totally fine

sasparillo

Hi,

Thanks but unfortunately there is no Asda in my area. Glad to know you've had a good experience with it tho'

:xmassmile

stacey21_2

How about : http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5321038/Trail/C%24cip%3D42492.Sound%2Band%2Bvision%3EC%24cip%3D42559.Digital%2BTV%2Band%2Bfreeview.htm

sasparillo

Thanks again. Have you had personal experience of using this? Is it reliable and easy to set up? :xmassmile

Beatrix_Kiddo

OH bought his mum and dad one from Sainsbury's for Christmas, which was £25 and has gone done a storm - set up in minutes and easy for them to use (they are not very technologically confident).

HTH.

steveo3002

ive had several decent make expensive ones that fail after the 12 months

what i do now is buy the cheapset one that tescos/asda/sains has knowing that i can easily change it if it fails and if it fails after the warrenty then ive only thrown away the minimum ££ that i had to

i find theyre pretty unreliable in general , ive had 3 fail now..one after 1 day

Lord_Gardener

We got three! Sagem, Matsui and Philips - all just needed plugging in and then they autotuned. They are 4, 3 and 2 years old and we've had no problems apart from Matsui which tends to drop radio channels - a quick retune and they are back! We did need new aerials though!

steveo3002

theyre all super easy to use....connect the cables and turn it on, you will see a option of "auto set up" or similar, just press that and it does it all

ive noticed some have a volume control on the digi remote...others dont, i prefer to get one with volume control so that i can just use one remote

sasparillo

Hi,

Thanks for all your opinions. I suppose I was wondering whether there was anything a little more expensive than the supermarket buys which could guarantee reliability but it sounds as if there is no rule of thumb which is a bit difficult when deciding what to buy. AFAI can tell reliability can be a problem after the first few months, tho' some people strike it lucky. I'm a little perplexed as to how to proceed.

Are digital TVs more reliable or do they suffer from the same problems? :xmassmile

Lstclair55

Sainsbury's have a half price one at the moment, sorry cannot recall what one it was, but it was approx £24.00.

We brough a Panasonic one, which is in the argos catalogue at present for £70.00, but our local store had it at £25.00, so snapped it up.