Advantages: Good value, Quality ,Vertical/Horizontal Mounting Disadvantages: As with all digi-boxes, needs a good aerial.
...the Sony D800U, and the Philips DTR1500 what I liked about both, they have dual SCART inputs, and have a novel way of mounting, the traditional horizontal way, or vertically next to your telly - with the addition of a small plastic widget. The Philip’s DTR1500 (£77 from Amazon.co.uk) came in about £40 cheaper than the Sony model, this was the one for me.
Delivery from Amazon was swift, upon opening the box the following was supplied:-
-Receiver
... ...-Instructions/Guarantee
-Remote control + Batteries.
Set up was also swift, the aerial plugged straight into the back of the receiver, then looped back out into my VCR and TV so these could still receive a signal. I only needed to use one of the SCART sockets, this connected straight to the back of my TV with the supplied lead. I also decided to connect by Hi-Fi to the audio Phono’s at the rear of the unit (a coax digital socket is also fitted ...
purpleduck 26.02.2004
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Advantages: Easy to use, mounting options, twin scart output, good picture Disadvantages: Very erratic, misses recordings, unable to update to new channels
Like everything electronic I have ever bought, or tried to buy by Philips, the performance of this digital freeview box has been very poor compared to other comparable brands, although this is the only thing that has not gone completely wrong.
This box gives a good picture through two scarts and has the option to save electricity with a low-power standby (< 1watt) option. It is fine if all you want to do is watch some extra channels, and don't mind ... ...It is a bit bulky compared to some makes but can be mounted upright to save space.
The menus are easy to navigate and it is generally user-friendy with no functions hidden in strange places. Response time is usuallly ok for text pages, though teletext and BBCi can be a bit slow at times.
There is a digital audio output (coaxial) for best quality sound.
However, there are serious problems when I try to record.
First of all, neither the remote ...
Therightone 23.02.2006 (17.03.2006)
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Advantages: Price, Vertical/Horizontal Design Disadvantages: None as of yet
Philips trys again with another freeview receiver and this time succeeds with its best freeview receiver avaliable Giving you all free to air freeview channels avaliable the channel change takes about one second, another good feature is you can switch between TV and radio so all the digital tv channels and digital radio channels are not all bundled in together, you can also switch between analouge tv and digital tv without switching the box off just ... ...the Philips also has a very nice look to it and to add to greatness of the looks you can make it look better by having it vertically or horizontally positioned
Power usage is quite good to, if put into standby for instance uses less than 1W of power, which is very cost effective if you like to monitor your electric bills.
Also has good inputs/outputs on the rear, has an digital coaxial output so you can connect it to a source that provides surround ...
oxygenuk 08.11.2004
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