Product Description

Humax Duovisio PVR9200TS 160GB Hard Disk, Twin Tuner - Freeview Playback

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #724 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Humax
• Dimensions: 2.16 pounds

Features

• 100 Hours Recording (160GB hard disc)
• Single button live pause and play during A/V watching (Time shifted Recording)
• Two year manufacturer guarantee
• Common interface for pay TV
• Video format in 4:3, 16:9 and letterbox

Customer Reviews

Started off well... now less impressive!
I have had this recorder for 18 months with few problems, just the occasional 'freeze' whereby the plug needs to be pulled just to get the picture going again, but I have heard about this from other recorders so can't blame it totally on this one. Up until recently we were very pleased with it..easy programme guide, easy to set the timer, all very intuitive.
However beware when the memory becomes almost full..it says it has recorded the programme, then when you check the details of the programme you thought you'd recorded it says 0KB and there's nothing there. Recently it has started recording programmes with the wrong title..what it does is it duplicates the title of a recording already on the hard drive and overwrites it! The other night I recorded the football and it called it 'the snowman' thus wiping my original recording of 'the snowman' that I wanted to keep! Weird! The memory is 90 per cent full but even so I wouldn't have thought that would be a problem. Is it just my machine that's faulty or has anybody else experienced this?

Not a problem in 2 years
I can say this is a fantastic machine. I have never had a problem with it - and it is really for the person who doesn't want Sky, but wants a sky+ type of service for freeview.

The only comment is when converting recorded programs to DVD - it requires a cable (which has to be bought separately), a PC, and software to convert the format. A fiddle at best, but I just keep programs on the hard disk (much easier!).

Oh Joy!
Purchased this as I'm not a subscriber to Sky and therefore had no access to a Sky Box. This is one of the easiest electrical appliances to set up ever! Two minutes, plugged in and working. Haven't really read the manual (in the almost two weeks since purchase), but am using it every day without and love the fact that I can record two different programmes whilst watching another! Unlike other reviewers, I've not been able to hear the fan - even in the early hours of the morning when it was very, very quiet in the house. I love it and don't know how I lived without it. I would have given this 5 stars had it been that the recording menu was clearer, but this is purely because I can't see that good (an age thing), but others will not have the same problem. Perhaps there is a way to make the writing bigger, so it looks like I'll have to read the manual after all!