Saturday, August 9, 2008

Freeview PVR Take Two

I still have my Topfield but bought someone a Humax 9200-T. Having set it up and played around with it I was very impressed, another company that almost "gets" it in this forgotten market.

Twin tuner, 160GB hard drive, series link support, and all the on screen menus are well organised. It also has card support but that side of freeview is fragmenting into custom boxes so will likely die out (as will the providers supplying them).

One extra bonus - and believe me every STB manufacturer needs one of these as it's an unreliable software business. A real on/off switch at the back. Better than a software controlled one which is no good because the reason you went to switch it off was because the software had crashed.

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