Just over a year ago, I found myself on the lookout for a TV recording device. I had finally made the decision to throw away my chunky old VHS recorder and was ready to embrace newer technology! My first instinct was to look at DVD recorders which are generally quite cheap. But then I got to thinking that it would be nice to have a recorder with a hard drive so as to avoid endless stacks of rewritable discs around the telly. However, these DVD hard drive recorders priced themselves out of my range at the time at a general cost of greater than £200. Therefore, it was a great delight when I stumbled across an alternative option that was ...  Read the complete review

** My Experience ** I bought this box from Argos for around £80 a couple of years ago. It worked fine for the first couple of months and then a number of problems started to occur. Firstly, when you were watching a recorded programme from the library and you fast forwarded a bit of it, for example at the ad break, it would sporadically take you back to the start of the programme and you would have to start fast forwarding all over again. The box just decided by itself when it was going to do this and it was very irritating. The second fault was that it would just decide not to record some programmes for some reason, even though you had ...  Read the complete review

I bought my machine just over a year ago from Argos and it has been pretty rubbish from the word go. The first problem I encountered from day one was that when fast-forwarding or rewinding through a recorded programme, if you went any faster than 8x speed (it goes up to 64x) then the machine would freak out and take you back to the last place the programme was played. This was really annoying when trying to speed through ad breaks as I'd end up being shunted back to the start of the programme which I would have to fast-forward through again. I decided to make my peace with this glitch because I was too lazy to be bothered with the hassle of unhooking it all, boxing it ...  Read the complete review

My fiancee' bought this set-top box from ASDA, as we are unable to have Sky+ in our area (Listed road) but we wanted the ability to record TV. The functionality is excellent, with a great menu, and huge hard drive. Our current TV has freeview built in, and i was surprised to see the Thomson box was worse quality than the freeview we were previously using. The picture was pixelated (not crisp). When watching a recording back, the picture was dull, and not as clear as normal TV viewing. The box has froze twice already, and then wouldn't find any channels and had to be re-set up. It offers a 160GB hard drive, which is enough to record ...  Read the complete review

The Thomson DTI 6300 is essentially the sensible man's alternative to Sky+. I bought it mainly for the ability to record my favourite programs and to have option to pause live TV, without the hassle of having to pay the monthly subscription to Sky. The Thomson comes with all the basic freeview channels, however, for those who don't mind paying a monthly subscription there is the option to pay and extra ten pounds a month for a handful of extra channels. So what do you get when you buy the 6300? Well, as stated above, you get the regular channels with the option to pay the extra money. You get the box, a remote, a free one month trial to the subscription ...  Read the complete review