Wharfedale: DV832B

linda poyner oldham, on March 12th, 2010
good box

Margaret Frain, on November 4th, 2009
Cant tune in my Wharfdale DTV the menu will not let me reset I need help desperately

ken, edgware, on June 23rd, 2009
purchased from argos 2005 working very good for 18 months in the mean time bought another one exactly the same so I thought.The first one stopped working,I thought when I had a bit of time I would repair it.Opened it up and had i/c/601 burnt out,as I could not read the number to replace it I opened the later one I purchased and found that the power supply now had a board of its own and a different layout and this i/c was no longer used.As this was still the same model number and packaging with a change of power supply board it shows that they must of had problems in that area as nobody adds an extra board ifit was working alright. Ken

Abby, Leeds, on April 30th, 2009
Have had the same probs with audio cutting out but last night the box literally blew up, there was smoke billowing out and everything. I've had it 2 years and Argos refused to do anything for me. They state they've had none of them returned for the same reason so I'm going to try and do something via Wharfedale website as it's obviously a health and safety risk. It was just fortunate I was there at the time & could unplug it.

Andy, Manchester, on December 14th, 2008
second time lucky with one of these. got one summer 07 and it packed in before long, got another because i couldnt be bothered looking for anything else elsewhere and argos had nothing else i liked for less than twice the price so i got another, asked them to check the software, they looked confused and showed me the box, the software was the newer version so i accepted it. its soldiered on nicely, its not the prettiest box in the world (although the channel number display is cool in my opinion), the epg has messed up a bit, and sometimes the sound doesnt come on when you change channels, but i gave £25-ish for it 15 months ago (it was 23 or 28 i forget which) and its outlasted its warranty which i wasnt expecting

Mike Thomson, Hants, on September 11th, 2008
Mine blew a fuse and died within two years. The Sale of Goods Act allows you 6 years to find a manufacturing defect but (i) I couldn't find the receipt and (ii) shop assistants NEVER seem to know about consumer legislation. Even while the unit was alive it would lose little chunks of audio, or sometimes fail to respond to the remote control. I wouldn't buy one of these again - or indeed anything by Wharfedale.

JP, Kettering, on August 10th, 2008
A brilliant piece of kit I thought, at first. Quick and easy to setup and use. Then I started noticing the audio cuttin gout - seems to happen every 22-25 minutes, for 1-5 seconds. That soon gets very frustrating, especially when dialogue is involved, in complex storylines. Now, recently, there have been signal problems, and it's getting more frequent. The signal can and does fail frequently, sometimes for 6 or more seconds. It used to happen a few times an hour, but now it seems to happen every couple of minutes. I don't think it's the transmitter, as the signal is fine if you watch it on the menu screen (as a little box in the corner.)

Ken, Derbyshire, on April 22nd, 2008
Good quality picture & easy to set up & use. Unfortunatley the sound drops out on a regular basis. Technical advice was to reset the box, made no difference. Changed the box for another, exactly the same poblem, advised to try a different manufacturer no problems with a Tvonics box. Manufacturers know there is a problem with this model, just hope people will accept this as normal.

Alex, Leeds, on January 16th, 2008
Available from ebuyer UK at £10.99 inc VAT.. super saver delivery took me to £16 delivered - so not bad price at all. We're aiming to use it for an old tv in the bedroom with a small old aerial - I'll report my findings here, and whether or not we'll have to get a new aerial. Have seen the maplin aerial L29BB (with gain amp to 20dB) strongly reccommended on the net, so might get that if signal is sub-par.

Mikey, London, on January 10th, 2008
I have had this 12 months and recommend it. No problems whatsoever. Bit cluncky & retro looking, but reliable.

Andy, Bristol, on December 24th, 2007
Purchased this box a week ago and it is very good value and works well. However it suffers from the dreaded sound dropouts (every few minutes) mentioned in other reviews, which makes it virtually unusable. It should have been a 5 but I'll have to give it a 2 on account of the dropouts.

David Bate, Cheltenham, on December 3rd, 2007
Bought a MICO box 11 months ago which proved to be un-reliable and finally packed up, giving a no-signal warning last week which could not be overcome. Fortunately Richer Sounds refunded the 20GBP cost with no quibble but could not supply much as a replacement. Went on-line to the Argos website which, unlike their catalogue, gives full spec. details of the various freeview boxes they stock, and selected the DV832B which I bought from the local store at the new price of 24.95 GBP. This is something of a bargain, the unit looks neat and I like the time display in standby mode, but wish the display LEDs were blue or green for easier reading - a minor point! I agree with most of the other comments about ease of set-up, picture and sound quality and recording features. I would have liked a button on the neat remote control to swap between the current and last programme selection but for the cost this is a very cheap way to get into freeview. Judging by the signal strength indicator it seems to be more signal-sensitive than the junk MICO box that, fortunately, packed up within the guarantee period! My recommendation - buy it tomorrow - great value.

Harry Kerr, Northern Ireland, on October 15th, 2007
Great machine......I had a Sagem: ITD58.....which is a bundle of rubbish, all it could do was pixelate and it had only one scart connection and a massive transformer plug (whatever that was about..haven't a clue!!!) The Wharfedale, worked straight out of the box and doesn't pixelate and holds onto channels. It has a Favourites feature which I like very much. It has two scart connections and a normal plug. I got it from Argus for £24.99. Excellent machine. Hope I get my money back for the Sagem and if I do, I will buy another Wharfedale for another TV in the house. Great Product. Thanks for all the great reviews on this machine.......I'm glad I purchased it

Alan, Edinburgh, on October 14th, 2007
My Wharfedale DV832B died the other day. Just went cold and wouldn't do anything. R.I.P. just short of its second birthday. Well, reading these reviews, that often seems to be the case, no matter what the make. So, having read all the reviews again I reckoned this box was still the best value in terms of features versus price, so I went to Argos and got another one. It was £5 cheaper than last time. Now I've used this new box for a bit I can report that there are a small number of differences to the previous version, mostly for the better. Firstly, the remote. Previously, this would frequently transmit the wrong commands giving a good deal of irritation. Other reviewers in this column have also remarked on this, and I have a Goodmans unit with the same remote which suffers similarly. Clearly this was a mechanical problem, something to do with the texture of the rubber buttons being wrong. This has now been fixed. The remote feels snappy and positive and does the job properly. Great. The user interface software is also different. It is now identical, as far as I can see, to that in my old Goodmans GDB4. According to the box label (and the information screen) it is version 1.5, whereas the dead one has a label saying that it was 1.7. It did have a couple of upgrades, but as it's now dead I can no longer ask it what version it got to. This 'downgrade' is probably for the better in useability terms, and it also loads the programme information more quickly. The receiver part of box seems to be more sensitive, giving a better signal level indication, and it is perhaps less sensitive to impulse interference. It also runs noticeably cooler. Well, all these improvements in just two years. But, it still has that dammed stupid pointless big bright red display on the front! Fortunately, silver sticky-tape covers that up.

Sam Northallerton, on October 6th, 2007
£24,99 from Argos and does just what it says on the tin. Set itself up in minutes with no help from me - good picture, good sound despite being in a poor signal area- user friendly remote control. It won't win any beauty contests but tucked away on top of the DVD its not going to offend anyone. Only time will tell if its more reliable than its predecessor, a good looking but decidely temperamental Panasonic but so far definetly reccomended

Jmeadows, South West, on July 10th, 2007
Just bought this from Argos at the reduced price of £24.99. Picked this one up because reviews sound okay, but what we found is it's almost identical to Tescos Digilogic Freeview. The front has changed, now has a clock, but everything else is the same, the remote is identical. Picked up the Wharfdale as they used to be a good name, we were replacing the Digilogic which has just refused to switch on had it less than two years. Time will tell if this lasts any better.

BarginMan, Bristol, on June 15th, 2007
The "Wharfedale DV832B" Set Top Box is now only £24.99 from Argos as a "Special Offer"... ( You can't go wrong at that price, now can you ! ) ... A Bargin for sure !!!. Plug it in and away you go... Does what it say's on the tin.

Warren from Liverpool, on June 12th, 2007
Just bought the Wharfedale DV832B for £24.99 from Argos. (Used vouchers as well so essentially got it for free :D) As this is my first box, had no expectations but after setup and installation - I'm so impressed!! Excellent PQ, Sound, the menu is great, digital text is awesome! Well i'm coming from just the basic five channels so I guess anything would have impressed me.

Robert, Glasgow, on June 9th, 2007
Bought this box two months ago from Argos, which now takes my collection of set-top boxes to three. My other two boxes have to be re-booted all the time and the remote on the Bush never works. Having read the reviews here I decided to go for the Wharfdale DV832B and it is excellent, working without any problems since day one. In fact I have decided to replace the others with the DV832B in the near future. Great price and great performance.