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[Closed] Anybody suggest a recordable freeview box with HDMI connection?
just got mum a nice new flat screen tv, however the £80 recordable freeview box is on the way out, connected it to the tv via scart and the pictures not too good.
ive noticed they now do hdmi ones bit reviews are few and far between as i guess most people have sky or virgin?
have about £150 to spend.
you can get the foxsat freesat box for about 120/130 quid and that has a hd and an hdmi out, but you'd still need a dish, which I think you can get fitted for about 40/50 quid, little over budget but I've got one and it's brill.
whoops my mistake, its apparently still over 200 quid forget that plan
cheers, but we got mum a new fancy 'normal looking aerial' a while bike so cant really justify the extra cost 🙁
jahwomble -you sure about that.
trde on a foxsat pvr is £209........if you know of cheaper please let me know.
The Humax PVR-9150T is not a bad box
EDIT - NO HDMI
i've just corrected myself on that it was the wrong one i was looking at and have already corrected myself 🙂
waihiboy -
why do you want a hdmi input on a freeview box.
terrestrial does not pass hd yet..
waihiboy -
why do you want a hdmi input on a freeview box.
terrestrial does not pass hd yet..
😳 im a bit of a joey deacon when it comes to stuff like this. but i thought if i connect the freeview box with hdmi rather than current scart i'd get a better picutre? but from what you have said i obviously cant?
There's a retune required next week for all current Freeview boxes that will free up the necessary frequencies for Freeview HD - but I'm not sure when we will see any
Pace will probably be the 1st to market with a DVB-T2 box later this year
I'd just buy a cheap one for now & see how it develops over the next few months
waihiboy
get a sky dish fitted and i can sell you a nice technomate pvr that records onto a usb memory stick....£39+vat
cheers mate,
yeah i saw the message about the update, the ault she has is th esound goes when after tuning it up or down and you have to turn the box on and off.
best to wait for HD i guess.
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I'd have said a topfield 5810 but having just looked they're £250+ sorry.
HDMI can handle more data than scart, the picture is definately better, just try the same box with a scart lead and a HDMI lead to see.
BT vision box it pretty good, but an ongoing cost rather than a one off. But they never asked for ours back after 18 months.