Sagem PVR 6280T

We bought this Sagem PVR about 1-2 years ago as a replacement for one that had broken. I think we paid about £130 for it, which back then was a very cheap price as these type of hard drive recorders were relatively new on the market. The actual unit is about 30cm wide and 25cm deep and about 5cm tall.I have to say I was very impressed with the features this little box has for the price we paid. It has a 80gb hard drive, this is enough memory for roughly 40 hours of recording. It comes with two freeview tuners, these means that you can record two programs, on different channel, at the same time! This has been an invaluble feature for us as I have oftens wanted ...  Read the complete review

It was the failure of our Virgin Media Pace set-top box that triggered my first interest in Freeview rather than the Analogue switch-off. After all, as we have cable TV and analogue TV will continue to be broadcast in this area until 2012, there was, on the face of it, no requirement. Of course, the failure of the Pace box highlighted our reliance on the five terrestrial analogue stations. When the Pace box was replaced the Virgin Media technician told me that the replacement one didn't have an analogue pass-though so it was cable or nothing. That left me feeling a little exposed. The previous one had enabled the analogue signals that Virgin Media ...  Read the complete review