DVB502 Freeview HD Set Top Receiver Box with 256GB SSD & Twin Tuner

Small recorder, ideal works well, good picture quality, easy to use, easy remote,

This little recorder is useful for recording shows that finish after our bedtime or when two shows we want to see are on at the same time. Not the highest quality recording but good enough, that’s to be expected at this price. Takes a bit of getting used to programming it. Buy two more and I could record 6 programs at a time for a lot less than that greedy airline owning fella charges every month.

Not very easy to use or alter your recordings. It frequently misses the ends of programmes, not reliable. If it is recording you cannot set up other recordings or use its programme guide. Disappointing. You cannot reliably record a whole TV series on it unless that series keeps to exactly the same time every week, unlike the BT YouView I had previously, which was programme-related. Very basic. Would like to return it but it has taken me months to work out how to use it.

A good Freeview tuner/recorder, for this price-point. Very impressed that this uses an SSD drive for recording. (Solid state, Not spinning HDD which don't "live" as long in my experience). All menus are easy to use. Picture quality also very good. Pause time on live TV was impressive, but depends on drive capacity remaining, of course. It doesn't let you rewind instantly, unless paused first. A minor here. And yes you can watch a channel when recording another, but you need to input the channel to watch another channel, as the EPG is not available when recording. Also, if recording a film, divided by some "news", ask it to record the other part ! Only minors, and depending what you are used to. This is a good box for me, in my months of use.

Nice small footprint and simple to install and setup. However, the EPG user interface is basic and could be a lot better. For example, when you select a program to record via the EPG, there isn't an option to record the series. So you have to remember to setup to record each episode of any program before the next episode starts. Not great if you're away for over a week! The HD video and audio quality is degraded when viewing via this unit, compared with the HD quality I get when directly viewed on my TV. But... its not an expensive device so can't really complain too much.

Set up is easy. You can only programme 8 timer events, a major restriction. Subtitles on recorded programmes don't always show. Recorded programmes do not come with any useful filename, only numberes, so you have to play each file to see what programme it is you have recorded. There is a file rename function but I can't get it to work. You can copy recorded programmes to an external HDD or USB stick (not described in the user manual) but any subtitles are lost in the process. The transfer process is very slow, so I recommend recording to an external device from the start, negating the need to transfer. Although this is a dual tuner, I can't get it to record one channel while watching another, it just says 'Invalid Operation!' and therefore it won't record two different channels at the same time either. But what you CAN do is set the timer to record two different channels at the same time. You cannot play a recording while recording a tv channel. You cannot use the EPG while recording. Whilst previous August DVB boxes had a dedicated tv/radio 'switch' button on the remote, this is no longer the case. Instead there is an option to switch in the 'Channel Manager' in the main menu. The timer events no longer have a tv/radio switch option either, you have to use the Channel Manager' first to go from one to the other, then into the timer. When you are recording, a message saying 'rec' flashes on and off on the top right of the picture, this doesn't seem to be able to be turned off - some could find this distracting. No software updates appear to be available online, it's a dead link.

Was very easy to set up and program favourite menus and recorded what I asked for. Great peice of kit

VERY PLEASED WITH THIS EASY REMOTE CONTROL TO USE HAD WORKING IN MINUTES HAS EVERTHING A FREEVIEW SHOULD HAVE 7 DAY EPG HD CHANNELS RECORDING FOR PROGAMS REWIND PAUSE LIVE TV

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Compte tenu du prix, je m'attendais à un appareil basique. Je viens de l'acquérir pour remplacer un Samsung très sophistiqué tombé en panne. Et bien, très agréablement surpris : le disque dur contient plus de 80 heures d'enregistrements. Il se programme grâce au guide ou manuellement, il enregistre aussi en direct et en décalé. Il n'a bien sûr que les chaînes gratuites de la TNT en HD mais ça me suffit largement pour voir mes films où émissions en zappant la PUB. Quelques problèmes avec la notice mal lisible et peu claire. La télécommande trop petite pour mes gros doigts et ses repères en anglais. Satisfait dans l'ensemble.

Ha llegado en perfecto estado,en su caja original, convenientemente lacrado,y me parece un buen aparato,lo elegí porque tiene disco duro interno,cosa que la inmensa mayoría no tiene.Ademas tiene buena calidad de imagen y sonido Me ha parecido una decisión muy acertada el haberlo comprado También me gusta que tiene un reloj digital en el frontal cuando está apagado,con unos dígitos muy bonitos y elegantes

Muy buen producto, lo que ocurre es que viene SIN enchufe adaptador y he tenido que comprar uno de 3,5 €

Conforme aux spécifications et caractéristiques décrites du produit. Intêret tout particulier pour le disque dur interne de 256 GA, qui évite l'achat d'un disque dur externe ( l'écart de prix avec un modèle " sans" compense largement ). Image 4K ok. Notice en français, installation très simple. Enregistrement à partir des programmes simple. Je met 4 étoiles parce que pas de recul sur la longévité du produit.