Thomson Top Up TV - 160GB Freeview Digital TV Recorder - With Free Top Up TV Trial

I am on my umpteenth replacement box in the last couple of years and have finally given up with this box. It seems to mis-time the starting of programmes which usually means that I end up with 10 minutes chopped off the end of programmes such as Family...

I bought this piece of equipment because my friend had one and he was well pleased. I bought the Thompson 160 from Asda but when I got it home it did not work properly. I took it back and it was immediately replaced by them no questions asked.

I bought one of these about 5 years ago (not off Amazon) and had nothing but trouble with it. I had to pull the plug out to reset it every time I wanted to use it through it locking up all the time. Total nightmare.....ended up taking the hard drive...

I've had this box for a while now and had just about all the problems listed here by others. I have discovered hidden menus like the setting menu (goto HELP and press 1793 or 1397) where i was able to reset the HDD and get the true remaining capacity....

I bought one of these because we coundn't afford Sky,Well we have experienced all the problems other purchasers have with recording, freezing and the system noise. The noise is very annoying and I am didapointed that any company would put a device with...

This is awful! It's bulky and monstrous and the loudest piece of equipment ever! It's constantly buzzing, so much so that you can barely even hear your program! It's also ALWAYS over heating and shutting down, conveniently in a recording so it's...

Don't touch this freeview box with a bargepole! Reception is iffy, despite my living only 5 miles from the transmitter, and despite my TV signal having been checked for strength. There is no facility for adding a couple of minutes to the recording...

Locks up once a day. Locks up when you delete a programme. Noisy. Misses recordings. Locks up on rewind. Software upgrades do not solve issues. Avoid.

I think this product is being taken off the shelves in the shops now. It is the worst thing I could have done buying this. I am very disappointed with it. The first one I had was corrupted by a software download Top Up sent and didn't work any more so...

Only had this 6 months and its now un-useable. Had issues with it from about week 4 of owning this, it kept losing signal and had to keep turning it off at the wall and back on just to watch it for about an hour before it would happen again. Its now...