I currently use a former ondigital Philips box to recieve freeview but t is now very old and is starting to struggle to deal with many of the newer additions to freeview such as the digital tet services which it cannot load properly. I woul like to replace this with something that works reliably and doesnt freeze or take forever to change channel. I would prefer to not spend more than about £50 but if a box is very highly reccomended I would be willing to pay a little more. I have been looing at those little Goodmans boxes that plug directly into the scart socket, any good?
2006-09-29 05:35:39 · 4 answers · asked by BlackCountryBob 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
And I dont really care about recording tv, stuff is repeated so often there is no point!
2006-09-29 05:43:17 · update #1
i know 2 people who have a freeview box from Argos,it costs £99.99,it has a built in hard drive so you dont need to record onto dvd or video,it goes straight on the box hard drive,it also has picture in picture as well as a digital display telling you which chanell youre watching,it also has twin tuner so you can watch 1 chanell while recording another chanell,if i didnt have sky hd id defo have one of them,its on page842,item 2 in the latest Argos catalogue.
2006-09-30 01:18:20 · answer #1 · answered by Dave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dad has had a freeview container yet we had no longer some thing yet problems with it. The channels stick & received't replace over, the image is humorous, the sound disappears through itself accord & even even with the actuality that we had an extra aerial put in we nevertheless in elementary words were given lower than 1/2 the channels that look on the menu. Our container value £ninety.00 yet we replaced it two times because they in simple terms saved breaking, i do not realize why, the restoration guy continually appeared to apply such tricky technical jargon, yet he suggested it wasn't our fault, he had considered fairly some problems with those bins. The restoration guy recommended us to get Sky digital as purchasers not often had courtroom situations about it. We took his suggestion & not in any respect regarded again. With Sky we get the channels we favor & in elementary words pay for a collection kit that we made up ourselves of movie channels, music channels & documentary channels & activities for my dad! Sky has CBeebies for the youngsters, you'll in simple terms ought to signal up in the newborn's channels kit which also has such issues as Disney channels, large for 2 twelve months olds & adults alike! i understand on the full the Sky deal is somewhat extra intense priced yet my dad & I truly imagine its worth it because we've a lot less difficulty with it. As someone who's experienced freeview & yet another sort i'd not propose the freeview container. wish that helps.
2016-12-04 00:57:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a "humax", its got built in hard drive so you can record straight off the digi receivers, no need for dvds or tapes.£200
its got 160 gig mem.
2006-09-29 05:41:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
goodmans is just a name.. its part of alba/bush**... so any of them will be good... matsui is made by panasonic good too.. so there is your choices..
** anyone who highly rates quality "ministry of sound equipment" thats all made by alba/bush too... bet you didnt know that....
2006-09-29 06:45:22 · answer #4 · answered by paulrb8 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋