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

I bought this item Manley to watch channel 81, Talking Pictures, works fine.tried freezing live tv and that good too. Not tried any other setting but I'm happy with what I've got ,and I think it's good value.

Arrived this morning bought it because BBC 1 channel freezes on our tv. Thought it might be poor due to cheap price however it's great! Easy to install and recorde. Great that it needs a USB to record on little hands can't accidentally record or delete then as you don't need to leave it in all the time. Is small and compact too so doesn't take up much space

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?

I think this is the most hopeless product I have ever bought. For the first few months it kept losing saved favourite channels. I discovered that the problem was signal strength and adjusted the digital aerial. This was not required for my old set-top box and could have been awkward if it had been a roof aerial. There's a USB port and strangely a warning in the manual about recording to USB sticks. I tried it with an old USB stick and it worked fine except you can't play back on the device because the recording is in Blu-ray format! The major issue I have with this device is the quality of picture which is not HD 1080P and inferior to my old set-topbox.

Fantastic box that exceeded all my expectations... needed this to hook up to an old 4:3 TV at work via SCART. Not only did this output via SCART (which wasn’t clear from details), the picture quality was extremely high, the video settings have everything I could want from offering 576i/p through to 1080p, and the HDMI connection is available if we get the chance to get a better TV/display.

nice neat freeview box small nice and compact .Giving great channel choice with crystal clear display .BUT after a couple of months box gave no channel display .When powering up ,just four flashing light ,then nothing .Company duly accepted return but denied receiving it.I sent them proof of post office re then finally got a replacement ! Couldn't believe it when plugged in replacement .Displayed showed boot of freeview box screen ,then low and behold original fault ,just flashing four lights then nothing .I have contacted them eight times to show my disfaction and requested they either fix it or replace it again .They have replied once blaming my hdmi lead which has nothing to do with their freeview box showing no display ! Awaiting return contact and i wont give up !

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.

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.