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I have had two digi boxes in a very short time so I really want to get one that will last far better and would appreciate any advice or help on this matter.
I have a Bush HD LCD TV and need a recording system.
At the moment I have a Dion digi recorder box which continually freezes so a new one is needed urgently.

I think Dion is Asda own brand ? How long have you had it ?

Do you have freeview, freesat or Sky ?

Humax - had one for years without any issues. They do them for Freeview, Freesat and Youview

http://www.humaxdigital.com/uk/

I never shop at Asda but someone did say they thought it was a Tesco box.
I have had it for about 18mths to 2yrs so no guarantee left.
I only have freeview.

darrenba wrote:Humax - had one for years without any issues. They do them for Freeview, Freesat and Youview

http://www.humaxdigital.com/uk/

Great! Thanks for the info.

darrenba wrote:Humax - had one for years without any issues. They do them for Freeview, Freesat and Youview

http://www.humaxdigital.com/uk/

I agree with Darren, we've had one for around 10-12 years.

John

You get what you pay for in this market. Tuners can be made INCREDIBLY cheap. I've seen the models during pre-sales evaluation that skip channels (frequency scan too wide), REALLY poor TV guides, no OTA updates, poor quality, etc.

Stick with the brands and you can't go wrong - Humax will do you proud. Same goes for the crap TV's too.

If you are spending some cash on a freeview box, to be fair, it can actually work out just as cheap to get a Samsung TV or similar, depending on size....

Also, in regards to freezing - this could be your aerial (type or alignment) or the cables in use.

I put some pics up ages ago about the different types of coax in use - the fly leads you get in boxes (like Bush and crappy makes) are TERRIBLE, seriously rubbish. People stick boosters/splitters in that can make the issue worse.

Check the diagnostic menus on the freeview box - it might offer signal information/quality/errors/bit rate - this is one way of checking without paying for cash.

Don't forget to try re-tuning your box. As they move channels around, this can also cause freezing when you select certain ranges.

Hope that helps.

BG

also worth doing a re-tune a hard drive re-format and factory reset in that order if the last didnt help but after the aeriel is ruled out

A panasonic 120 HD+ freeview recorder. Had it a few months and its amazing. Fantastic quality picture, never a problem recording or playing back plus you can plug in external drives stream the recordings over your internal network and it has a load of apps to install for free including netflix...

phildamb wrote:A panasonic 120 HD+ freeview recorder. Had it a few months and its amazing. Fantastic quality picture, never a problem recording or playing back plus you can plug in external drives stream the recordings over your internal network and it has a load of apps to install for free including netflix...

Panasonic... the best by far in my opinion..!!