Metronic Setanta

Up side: The favorites option work very well - and can re order the channels to the order to you preferred. Also has a good volume control - so dont need to use the amp volume or TV volume - at least one less control to meddle with. Down side: ...

It's fine except it crashes and has occasional problems displaying some of the channels. So as long as you don't want to watch TV it's fine.

If you think you are getting three months free, think again. First you pay a connection charge, that way they get your bank details. Then two months into your free period they take £10.99 from your account. This is because Setanta take their payments...

user friendly

no user volume control

easy to set up

unaware of 14.99 connection fee and few signal problems to start with

Looks good, nice design

Kept dropping certain digital channels which worked perfectly well on to other devices, with built in digital decoders, when using the same signal source

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I have a dvd recorder with build in freeview which works perfectly for all freeview channels. Got this box for accesing setanta on freeview, intermitantly it wont pick up certain channels and freezes a lot. Both devices are through the same aerial...