Freeview boxes sub £20 - Can you beat it?

sarahowen

Does anyone have any reviews for this box? Not the cheapest but using vouchers I got for Xmas...

veronarona

DIGIHOME DVB915

There are 156 customer reviews on the Amazon site - just scroll down to the bottom of the product details page.

veronarona

JohalaReewi

mbam wrote: »

Tesco sell a Value SCART cable for £1.91, a price that is not going to break the bank!

Beware of cut-price SCART cables - not all of them are fully wired. What this means is, to keep the price down, the cable may have been wired up using the bare minumum number of wires to get a picture and sound. In this case, you will not be getting the best possible picture and other features like smartLink etc. are unlikely to work either. Also, the cable will probably have the thinest wire possible. Just right for cable breaks and signal degradation.

Not saying that the Tesco one falls into this category (I haven't seen it) but you do need to be aware of how SCART leads can be made cheaper by cutting corners.

MandyQue

Popped in Cash Generator today and they had lots of Digifusion freeview boxes for £14.99, and some reconditioned models of various makes for £12.99. They are basic models, not recorders or anything, but cheap enough, got one for my sons bedroom.

edited to correct store name

Heinz

Not sure if it's been mentioned before but Sainsbury's were doing the Alba STB8 Freeview STB for £17.99 (shelf label states "10% off normal £19.99 price") when I was in my local branch today.

durham_girl

Just wanted to let everybody know about my experience with the Digihome dv940b2. Its in Argos for £19.99 and its RUBBISH!!!! It wouldn't pick up all of the channels and everything was fuzzy. We phoned Argos customer helpline and they told us they had had loads of negative feedback from people and their advice was to take it back! Apparantly the receiver is a waste of time and thats why it doesn't pick up any channels. Spend an extra fiver and get this instead!

lolly5648

mbam wrote: »

Tesco sell a Value SCART cable for £1.91, a price that is not going to break the bank!

Do you have to use a scart to connect the box to the tv - we have a very old tv in spare bedroom without a scart connection onthe back

Patr100

lolly5648 wrote: »

Do you have to use a scart to connect the box to the tv - we have a very old tv in spare bedroom without a scart connection onthe back

For non scart Tvs you need a DTV box with an RF modulator which produces a signal you can tune the telly to via the aerial. Like a VCR is tuned.

You'll need to pay a bit more for such a box say £20-30 or so more and they are less commons Or use an existing VCR as they have modulaors built in. So set box to VCR via scart then tune the VCR to TV via aerial.

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Nostromo

Are there any freeview boxes that have an HDMI socket out yet ?

dc

JohalaReewi wrote: »

Beware of cut-price SCART cables - not all of them are fully wired. What this means is, to keep the price down, the cable may have been wired up using the bare minumum number of wires to get a picture and sound. In this case, you will not be getting the best possible picture and other features like smartLink etc. are unlikely to work either. Also, the cable will probably have the thinest wire possible. Just right for cable breaks and signal degradation.

Not saying that the Tesco one falls into this category (I haven't seen it) but you do need to be aware of how SCART leads can be made cheaper by cutting corners.

Poundland and most pound shops sell scarts, the Poundland ones have all pins connected.