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Digital Vision GiGo
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2 reviews

November, 2009

74 / 100

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Digital Vision GiGo

By Ian Morris

The GiGo Freeview personal video recorder doesn't have the best build quality you'll ever encounter and it's a fairly ugly piece of kit. But it does what it does -- recording programmes to USB storage -- very well, and will appeal to those who want to ...

Low power consumption ; excellent-quality recordings ; clever idea ; silent ; ideal for laptop users or converting an old CRT TV to digital

Price is rather steep ; ugly as sin ; badly built from fairly cheap materials ; Scart lead is the work of Satan

The Digital Vision GiGo has some great things going for it, although it's not without its downsides. Fortunately, the positives far outweigh the negatives. If you want to record Freeview to a USB memory stick, this machine is very convenient and does ...

With Freeview recorders starting at around ? these days, it's pretty important for any manufacturer charging more than that to have a compelling reason for doing so. Digital Vision thinks it does with the ? GiGo, designed not only to receive Freeview...

July, 2009

Rating

77

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cnet.co.uk
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Digital Vision GiGo

With no internal hard drive, the Gigo is a dinky little box

Records Freeview to external drives, Easy to use, Chasing playback

Only one tuner, A bit ugly, No series link

HDMI would have been nice, but the TV Scart does have an RGB option ensuring picture quality equivalent to the average Freeview adapter. The same is true of recordings, while fast-forwarding and rewinding remains a glitch-free experience

Rating

70

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