Techwood AEDTR807 80GB Storage PVR Reviews: 2 Freeview Tuners HDR with HDMI

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Score: 8.8/10

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Also known as: Techwood AEDTR807 HDD, Techwood AEDTR807 HDR More product details »

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Ease of use8.9
Image quality8.7
Range of features8.5
Sound quality8.6
Value for money (at time of purchase)9.4
Overall rating8.8
 

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Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 9.0/10

+ Does everything it suppose to. Very easy to use and has everything needed to fulfill your enjoyment.

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 07 Nov 2008

Paula, Liverpool

Score 10.0/10

+ It is extremely user friendly while being packed full of features. It's my first venture into freeview and also into the hard drive system of programme storage. After being so used to video or dvd, I find the features, such as programme details available on recorded programmes and the facility to record a whole series at the touch of a button, absolutely brilliant.
It set itself up so easily and the whole thing is so easy to navigate. I am constantly chuffed at my ability to pause live telly, and sometimes pause it for no other reason but just because I can.
Please bear in mind as I've said this was my first freeview hard drive venture and I have no experience to compare it to but I think it's perfect.
It has dual tuner so recording two programmes or recording one and watching another has made the fear of switching to digital a lot less worrying. I did wonder how I would be able to still have the choices that I do with my terrestrial set up, and now my reservations have disappeared.
The hard drive is pretty big and more than adequate for the average household. There is a really useful indicator for space used for recordings, space used for future preset recordings, and space left for use.
When your hard drive is full you have the facility to archive any recordings you want to onto an external video or dvd recorder.
You have picture in picture and you can swap from one to the other. You can set reminders for programmes you want to watch but not record.
In all I am extremely happy with this unit and would definitely recommend it to anyone.

- The unit has frozen twice in a month BUT I'm convinced it's because i'm not allowing the unit to download updates for the software as I very rarely have it on standby which is necessary for the downloads to happen.
I now upgrade the system regularly manually and so far have encountered no further problems.
When the system has frozen I have just 'turned it off at the mains, left it for a few moments and switched it back on again. My recordings have still been there, it is all back to normal and everything is fine.
Although the menus on the unit are quick and responsive I find the programme guide very slow. but as I've said i have no idea whether this is standard programme guide behaviour or unique to this unit.

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9 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 10 Nov 2008

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 10.0/10

+ very easy to set up and use

- none

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Nov 2008

sue, bolton

Score 9.0/10

+ being able to record one channel while watching another

- nothing really

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Nov 2008

Brian, Redruth , “I am aged 66”

Score 10.0/10

+ it is very easy to use.

- I cant find any bad points with it.

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6 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Nov 2008

Theresa, Sheffield , “Geek Female Square-Eyed Technologist”

Score 10.0/10

+ Easy to install and set up

- Could do with having a larger hard disk

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5 of 5 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Nov 2008

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 9.0/10

+ cheaper and more reliable that other products that I have bought. Very easy to set up and use.

- not attractive to look at. a bit clumpy!

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Nov 2008

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 9.0/10

+ Simple and easy to set up and use

- Does lock up sometimes but quick re-boot sorts it

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Nov 2008

Christine, Annan

Score 10.0/10

+ Good clear visable options and instructions. Smart design and easy to use

- It would have been absolutly perfect if it also had a DVD player as it would save having another unit to watch
hired or bought films ect.

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Nov 2008

David, Morley Leeds , “retired and age 65”

Score 10.0/10

+ So easy to use and I have recomended it to all my friends, two of them are going to buy the recorders after xmas. Also we do not need a video recorder or dvd recorder any more thus doing away with a lot of messy wires.

- Nil

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 20 Nov 2008

clive, mablethorpe

Score 10.0/10

+ excellent product, does just what it says.

- No bad points found

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 17 Nov 2008

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 9.0/10

+ My mother finds it easy to use

- Nothing

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 26 Nov 2008

Andy, Hemel Hempstead

Score 10.0/10

+ very good value for the price. easy to use and to set up

- none found so far

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 16 Dec 2008

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 9.0/10

+ It does what is says on the box

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 10 Nov 2008

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 9.0/10

+ Great value simple to use (so long as you ignore the manual!). Good basic unit which is just what I wanted

- Instruction manual - impossible to understand. Just needs a plain language transplant!

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purchased 12 Nov 2008

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Product Features

Hard Disk Capacity in GB collapseexpand 80
Freeview or Freesat Tuner collapseexpand Freeview
HDMI Interface collapseexpand 0
Number of Freeview Tuners collapseexpand 2
Number of FreeSat Tuners collapseexpand 0
Number of Scart Interfaces collapseexpand 2
USB Port collapseexpand No

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