The Sagem IDT58 digital set top box is a pretty cheap, small and pretty easy to use Freeview TV receiver. It's currently going for about twenty to twenty five pounds at Argos and Currys at the moment.

So what do you expect from this machine? Well, as a Freeview TV set top box, it does exactly what you want it to. Comes with two Scart plugs and a aerial one it sets up nice and easy - all you do is plug it in, and wait for the automatic installation to do it all for you. Within a few minutes you'll be watching your free channels with glee.

The product is quite small, and incredibly flat. Width-wise, it's just under 30 cm and is about 15 cm length, and will sit nicely on top of your TV, DVD player or just about anywhere that's flat enough as it is pretty light.

However, I found the quality of the box, or rather the software in the box to be quite disappointing. While it certainly does what it says, you also expect some other things, too, like a program guide (which it does not have, leaving you to tediously go through all the channels to see what's on) and sometimes it does annoying glitchy things like freeze, mute the sound (which you have to switch channels before it works again) and lose reception when there isn't anything wrong with the aerial.

The remote control is easy enough to get accustomed to. It's always a bit of a drag at first, but that's the same with every remote. The functions you expect are all there, and the remote even has a pretty nifty Radio button which lets you browse through stations much easier, and I found myself listening to it much more often than I otherwise used to.

Overall, it's the not the best. In fact, it's far from being the best, with the lack of TV guide being one of the biggest disappointments. You can get better ones now for even less than 25 pounds, so I'd say go for one of those.