looking for a freeview PVR

justlooking

I'm looking for a freeview PVR about £90.00 tops i've looked at the ones in argos but info on the net seems to say there not that good.

amcluesent

>Freeview PVR about £90.00<

PVRs, IMHO, are only useful if they are proper twin tuner. You reliable choices are the Topfield (£270), Humax (£199) or the cheapy Asda (£80) which you can upgrade the firmware on.

justlooking

HUMAX PVR-8000T seems a nice unit has anyone had one.

kne

Humax and topfield are good makes as above.

Do you really need one with a twin tuner? I can only record one thing at a time on mine (tvonics 150) and its fine. Only thing that could get annoying is two programs on at once you wish to record when you are out (not watch one and record the other) or timeshifting and a recording starting....

moneyuser

justlooking wrote: »

HUMAX PVR-8000T seems a nice unit has anyone had one.

Have a look over at the Digital Spy Forums, they have a whole sub section about pvr's. Very good info.

amcluesent

>Only thing...<

Indeed, which I find happens quite a lot (since with Freeview your also talking about recording 'radio' programmes). The Humax is excellent, you can be recording two programmes while watching a third (on a shared mux).

The next generation of devices will be quad-tuner!

justlooking

Well in the end off to argos i went i was looking online but in the end argos is easy to get to if the box dies i got the Digihome PVR80 Twin Tuner Freeview with 80Gb HDD.To be honist when you look online for infomation all the box's seem to have problums of some sort.