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Stuart Wilson, Borders on September 23rd, 2006
A compact, straightforward digital receiver. Tuning is either auto or search one frequency at a time - can be very time-consuming. Reception isn't fantastic (albeit in a weak reception area) and can easily be compromised by electrical appliances in neighbourhood. After 2 years of viewing, have suffered with freezing and auto re-setting when changing channels after watching one for a length of time. Digital text is VERY slow and won't work on commercial channels. EPG only for now & next - not always accurate on the now either (usually showing early hours in mid-evening). Timer remarkably easy to set up and use. If you just want to watch the same channel on digital this can just about do the job.
Andrew, Cornwall on February 28th, 2007
It is a very easy to use receiver, as it does not have any of the extra frills of most other boxes. It is quite large compared to today's boxes, but it did have a good resting place with my DVD player and VCR. Interactive digital services were very slow or did not work at all, for example BBC News 24 Multiscreen was incompatible. Subtitles are unavailable with this model, which I found annoying, but the timer was quite clever. You just set a time and frequency, and it'll go back every day. It can even recover if it crashes from the channel change, going straight back to the timer channel. The receiver had difficulty with 4:3 letterbox mode, often squashing the picture one way or another until you pressed the mode change on the remote. All in all, this box did what it was advertised to do though.
Fred Mason, Glos on March 24th, 2007
Mine frequently goes monochrome, freezes and the remote randomly chooses what it will activate despite what button is pressed. I am similarly unimpressed by the lack of information on the upcoming programmes. The process of recording digital TV is tedious. On the other hand, I have a Daewoo box on my computer which is much better.
