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Recommend a Pace Twin replacement?
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Hi All,
After many years I'm looking to upgrade my Pace Twin PVR. Can you lot help me find the right box for me? What I want is;
- Twin tuner PVR
- Record 2 channels at once is a bomus
- HD would be brilliant
- iPlayer or other IPTV could be fun
Possibly the most important thing is a goot (high quality) remote control.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks in advance
i79
After many years I'm looking to upgrade my Pace Twin PVR. Can you lot help me find the right box for me? What I want is;
- Twin tuner PVR
- Record 2 channels at once is a bomus
- HD would be brilliant
- iPlayer or other IPTV could be fun
Possibly the most important thing is a goot (high quality) remote control.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks in advance
i79
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Digitalstream 8205 £199 - No iplayer at the moment
Both very good
TVonics DTR-HD500 http://www.tvonics.com/product_support/ £229.99 at Sainsbury's online.
Chris.
Digitalstream DHR8203/5. The 8203 is a 320Gb model, available from PC World, Currys and Amazon for £169. The 8205 is a 500Gb model available from John Lewis for £199. Excellent, very reliable and well respected. Based on the same internal hardware as the Humax above however it doesn't have the media streaming facilities. IPlayer access via the RED button due to be activated as soon as the BBC approve it. Decent, but not brilliant remote. Some of the buttons are a bit small, and it is an odd shape, but you very soon get used to it.
TVOnics DTR-HD500. Weird looking, was quite flaky but recent updates seem to have cured the majority of problems and it is now a decent buy. Around £230-£260. More traditional looking remote, but it feels decent.
Sony have also just released a Freeview HD PVR that shares the same internals as the Digitalstream and Humax, so should be just as reliable etc. It's closest to the Digitalstream in that it's feature list is almost identical, lacks the media streaming features etc. However the Sony has iPlayer access via the RED button already approved according to reports. Around £270 from a few places, rising to around £280-£300 in other's such as Sony Centre's. The best remote of the lot, looks and feels like a Sony TV remote and is solid.
However the remote shouldn't be the deal braker. Whatever machine you buy you can replace the remote with a great OneForAll Smartcontrol or Logitech Harmony 300 for around £20-£30 later on if you really can't live with the supplied one.
Tesco.
This is a end series but it will benefit from the latest update to come which will involve the new GUI
AvForum
An addon to complete: the rem_record tool
But it is not very reliable..
Are you mad
This technika box is a bag of Poo!
fit for the bin only
The TVonics Box is way better than this and with the rate that they are throwing out software updates recently looks like the customer service is sorted too
I think your opinion no more valid.
The box received seven major update. Each update has brought lot of improvements and added few bugs.
Reading AVforum specially dedicated to bugs and their fixes is very instructive.
It contains 6 parts each about thousand posts
1 starts on 3 June 2010 - 31 pages
2 starts June 16, 2010 - 32 pages
3 starts on 20 July 2010 - 33 pages
4 starting on 28 August 2010 - 33 pages
5 starts October 24, 2010 - 32 pages
6 starts February 10, 2011 only 7 pages in over 2 months.
It is instructive to note that initially, it only takes two weeks to fill more than 1,000 complaints.
As to updates, it takes more and more time to reach one thousand complaints.
Since the last update of 10 February 2011, longer than 2 months ago just 200 posts (5 times less posts with 4 times longer)
Especially the last posts are no more complaints but rather approvals.
Note that this is speak out of long time true customers.
http://www.avforums.com/forums/14454049-post205.html
http://www.avforums.com/forums/14454049-post206.html
What about magazines and their ratings ?
87% SmartBox (before 2 major Update )
http://issuu.com/whatsatellitedigitaltv/docs/wst_technika_fetchtv
83% 3view
http://issuu.com/whatsatellitedigitaltv/docs/3view/1
83% HD Humax Fox-T2
http://issuu.com/whatsatellitedigitaltv/docs/humax-hd-fox-t2/1
Nevertheless, all PVR boxes have bugs.
Even TVonics have bugs. In the Digital homepage there are 2 threads that describe them, one is:
TVonics DTR-HV250 Problems
Regards.
Plus there's the fact that you have to register your credit card details with Fetch TV, even to use the free BBC Iplayer, the box looks incredibly cheap and tacky too.
So I still wouldn't touch it personally.
To be fair though, the last two software updates have made some of us HV-250 users (Freeview+, not Freeview HD+) very happy and my last few fellow posters on there admit this!
from that very thread: