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Daglor
23-11-2005, 08:03
I'm after one with good, fast, clear EPG (its for my elderly mother)

Here are ones I've looked at;

Philips DTR200 Freeview Set Top Box £49.99

Sony VTX-D800U Freeview Digital TV Set Top Box £78.98

Philips DTR320 Freeview with 2 Scart Sockets & 7 Day EPG £58.53

All help greatly appreciated.
Daglor
23-11-2005, 17:48
Anyone? :wave:
visualunderground
23-11-2005, 18:41
Sony is the best I've used, you wont be disappointed. Not tried the others tho'.
stephen
23-11-2005, 18:47
I bought my brother a Matsui DT3 for christmas, £30 at Curry's. It seems pretty good to me, it works well with my weak signal and the teletext channels are nice and fast.
Analog Kid
23-11-2005, 18:53
We've got the Sony at home and apart from some odd Channel 4 related quirks it's been faultless and is easy to set up and use. A friend had a Philips (don't know which) which was pretty odd and not at all intuitive to use, he's since bought a Humax I believe which is far better and has a search facility in the 7 day EPG which is quite handy.
stephen
23-11-2005, 22:04
Hasn't the Sony box got an aspect ratio bug that means some programs are forced to 14:9 letterbox when watching on a 4:3 t.v., instead of being displayed properly as 16:9 letterbox?
stephen
23-11-2005, 22:06
There are some box reviews here:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/terrestrial/reviews/
Daglor
24-11-2005, 06:52
Many thanks guys, your help is greatly appreciated.

Just ordered the Sony from Amazon after reading all the reviews.

Daglor
wack
25-11-2005, 21:36
Hasn't the Sony box got an aspect ratio bug that means some programs are forced to 14:9 letterbox when watching on a 4:3 t.v., instead of being displayed properly as 16:9 letterbox?

people still have 4:3 TVs :eek: ;)