Thomson DT16021-50

Price

Ease of recording

Easy plug-and-play out the box. Simple but functional / intuitive Sky-type remote control. Good quality display and menus. Can record 2 channels at once, unlike many that could and now can't after the digital broadcast system was changed. Very small...

Needs a fair signal or can crash, like so many other DTB boxes, but once it has one works very well. Prog guide is not good (non-proportionate display). Top-Up-TV information keeps appearing, even if you don't use it. You can't set extended record time...

Cheap

Box is constantly crashing, missing recordings and requires powering down and rebooting, a five minute process

LOVELY QUALITY !!

NO VOLUME ADJUSTMENT, NO MUTE. SOMETIMES HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF A PROGRAMME, IF LEFT VIEWING HALFWAY THROUGH. CAN'T WATCH A 3RD PROGRAMME WHILE RECORDING 2 PROGRAMMES AT THE SAME TIME. IT DISCONNECTED ONCE AND I LOST EVERYTHING. NOT...

I bought this as a replacement for my Sharps Topup TV box which had gone. I did not have great hopes of it because it was bought knowing it was a refurbished box,. So far it has been brilliant and everything has worked perfectly, however, the main...

None so far but the proof ot the pudding is how long it lasts!

ease of use and instructions easy to follow

none that I can think of so far

Did not have it long enough to find any good points.

After having a digital recorder that had one touch recording, easy TV guide and easy to operate, I found this one very complicated to use on the recording. Also the TV guide was not easy to use or to look at programmes later in the day. When the...

easy to use and unlike other similar products it does not erase recorded programs without warning

Easy to setup, easy to use very suitable for the elderly lady it was brought for to replace her old VHS

none

Easy to set up and also nice and compact. Recording and playback easy - at last I'm not missing anything when I'm at work! Series link works fab too.

Shame you can't continue to view the programme your watching whilst also viewing the TV guide, also the top-up TV is a little overkill, doesn't always show the listings, but thats probably a signal issue rather than the boxes fault.