UK Freeview HD + WiFi Ready Set Top Digi Box Digital TV Receiver & HD 1080P USB Recorder. FULL HD DVB-T2.Terrestrial Tuner Analogue to Digital Television Converter. HDMI or SCART. Wi-Fi

Easy set up bought for old widescreen plasma TV in spare room and the TV picture quality is crystal clear HD as good as the downstairs cable connection. About a hundred channels. Some can be affected by weather conditions and pixilate but the box seems to replicate them in the list, so for example if on channel 19 Talking Pictures is cutting out, it might be working fine on channel 114. Well worth the price, and easy remote.Only small annoyance is it asks everyday if you want to update but you just say yes and wait a minute at most or press exit and ignore. Add favourites, choose your own groupings and if any loss of service just press to search channels again and all reload.

For the price its worth every penny, it does the job and with a USB fitted its even better if your TV does not have that feature available and supports all the latest video codecs, there is a delay when switching channels and the other downside in my opinion is when you scroll to see whats on the other channels the channel changes along the way rather than just giving a guide to whats on.

In a nutshell, this device is pretty good, but there are a couple of caveats.1) You can't record one channel and watch another (or at least I have found no way to do this). In the blurb it claims this is possible, but I don't think it is.2) The HD video rendering sometimes seems glitchy, and will blink momentarily then the video will speed up for a second, which is slightly annoying. (I have become convinced this is NOT just poor reception - see below)3) The remote seems to require fairly accurate pointing at the device sensor to work.General points:The user interface takes a little getting used to, but it does work and its acceptable once you get used to the finer details.Positive points:The USB PVR records to a completely standard MPEG transport stream (with a .mts file extension). This means you can easily edit the recordings on a PC (e.g. to remove ads etc).If you only want SD (not HD) all SD features seem to be fully stable (unlike HD).With respect to my point (2) above: Live playing (and recording playback) of HD channels seems to be glitchy particularly on fast changing or high contrast images. I am sure this could be fixed by software - this is not down to poor reception. The reason I believe this is because if you make an HD recording that glitches you can "fix" it via video editing software!! i.e. the video data is present - not missing, as it would be with bad reception! I used a Linux program called AVIDemux to transplant the video data from an HD recording (codec MPEG4 AVC) into a Matroska (MKV) container format and it played back just fine - no glitches. It is almost as though the box is not implementing properly the mts format spec. Just my guess.By the way - I found the device quite fussy about USB sticks for the PVR. But I found it likes the ones made by Integral. I used a mini Integral 32GB USB3 memory stick for PVR purposes.  Integral Fusion 32 GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive  The device only supports USB2, but I wanted to "max out" the recording speed.Another tip: The PVR will create a folder in the top level of the USB file-system called "HBPVR" and all your TV recordings end up in here.If you create another folder in the top level called e.g. "KEEP", you can stash recordings you want to save in here without fear of anyone accidentally deleting them, if you rename them like this "../KEEP/whatever_name_you_want". You need the two dots and the forward slash at the start. (it means - go up a directory). Renaming files via the remote is a bit of a drag, but it works. The box has to be running Linux underneath, surely ;-)Something else to note: This device is very mysterious in that it has (1) No product ID (2) no barcode on the box (3) no manufacturer's website or support URL in the instructions. Trying to discover information on the exact hardware specs is quite difficult!Personally I would say this device is not quite ready for the mass market as it seems to have some fairly serious bugs on the HD rendering side that will fox non-technical users. BUT ... if you are fairly tech savvy and prepared to work around its peculiarities it is actually quite a cool device.If only they would release a new firmware that addresses these issues ... but without a manufactures website, no ID codes etc how can we find such a thing?

This product aspires to be all singing- all dancing but it's tone deaf and has two left feet.Standard definition Freeview reception is ok bu the image displayed on a SD TV is fuzzy when compared with other similar devices.HD Freeview is annoying - periodically (up to 6 times per minute) the screen goes black for one second and when it returns, the video & speeds up to catch up with where it should be. Mostly unwatchable.TV recording fails most of the time because the device loses the hard-drive (I've tried two different ones) and the box has to be powered-down before it's recognised again - this happens almpost every time the drive is accessed. Timed recording hardly ever take place. HD recording freezes in line with the loss of sync already mentioned.Media playback works fine but the menu system is hardly intuitive. HD video play back nicely on SD TV.Vendors (UK DIGITAL) sent a replacement for the first and offered a refund for the second - no problems there. I've kept it for the media playback function and bought a refurbished BT YouView box (just over three times the price but it does have 500Gb HD fitted and two tuners).

It's very inexpensive for what it provides but there are a few drawbacks:1: The video is rather soft compared to my old DVD/HDD recorder from any USB source.2: The recorded video files are in .mts format so a USB pen won't play from the TV USB socket.It will, however, play back all sorts of other video formats and .mts can be converted to MP4 on a PC.3: The remote control can be a little reluctant, bear in mind the price though.4: Using the EPG, you have to select a channel then scroll down through the times (and dates) to select the program.5: Looking at the recorded program list only gives the channel, time and date, no title. It comes down to cost and registered software I suppose.6: Using the remote in certain combinations can pause the machine's internal processor but correct procedures can be memorised. An example would be going to "play" mode from "enter" (to preview), the program cannot be stopped or paused, the device has to be turned off which also takes some time. I presume the processor is "full" so doesn't respond quickly. "Play" direct is fine.Having said all that, it's not going back, it's very small and undoubtedly useful.