Freeview Box With PVR

[the1]

Been looking at a few and found this:

http://www.empiredirect.co.uk/conte...ept~ctv~subdept~FREEVIEWBOX~make~Topfield.htm

Its abit expensive though...

It says in the wright up "with interface for use with the Top Up TV cam & card". So does that mean that it will only work with Top Up TV? (I don't want Top Up TV).

Has anybody got any ideas on the one above and on what other ones to buy?.

Cheers.

 

[16v_jon]

thats a good price for the toppy, also look at the humax 9200 they are just as good ive got 2 and well impressed but over £100 cheaper than the toppy

 

[biojo]

i got a digivision dv100 or somet works well no issues so far had it about 14 month, got it from microdirect costs 80 quid for a refurb

 

[Tom]

One word.

Babel

 

[the1]

One word.

Babel

Whats Babel?.

 

[the1]

I have just found the Topfield TF5800 250gb in Silver for a price of £225.

http://www.tracsat.co.uk/catalog/topfield-tf5800-freeview-250gb-p-198.html

Anybody heard of them before?.

 

[Mark5290]

Yeah i have a hummy 9200 aswell, can't fault it as a stand alone PVR, the only problems i have is trying to transfer off the movie files using the USB2 port to my laptop, my box appears to lock up and then you get file transfer errors.

 

[daydotz]

http://www.toppy.org.uk/ owners forum the only draw back is it takes a lot of fine tuning



id avoid the humax as it needs to find the epg tv listings evertime you switch it on ive considred them both but im still undecided

 

[the1]

Cheers for replys . I'll take a look at that forum..

Also found a good review for Topfield 5800

http://www.lordpercy.com/topfield_freeview_pvr_review.htm

&

Humax 9200t

http://www.lordpercy.com/humax_9200-t_freeview_review.htm

 

[Mark5290]

id avoid the humax as it needs to find the epg tv listings evertime you switch it on ive considred them both but im still undecided

Humax need to address the problem of slow EPG population, the workaround is when you switch on the hummy, you set it to BBC1, then bring up the PIP and set that to Channel 3, give it a few minutes and then the EPG will be fully populated.

If i were you, i would not totally discount the Hummy, it still is a very good PVR for the money, and very easy to upgrade the HDD, unlike some PVR's/Sky boxes that had the operating system installed on the HDD aswell.

 

[Longy]

Humax here also!

Great bit of kit! well worth the cash - yeah it can be slow updating EPG and is a little loud but overall great.

 

[timmmah]

Tesco do one for £199 which looks sexy

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.100-5128.aspx

 

[dk]

my dads got the humax and the EPG thing is very annoying, and it hasn't got series link.

I got the free BT Vision V-Box and its great, has no EPG problems, even has 2 weeks worth and does series link.

Would highly recommend it for free if you have BT Broadband.

 

[daydotz]

im with bt but i cant get bt vision strangly ive tried