I spent a long time researching the best HD box for my budget before ordering this, mainly because of its recording feature. However, to me the recording feature was not enough of a bonus to make up for its other shortcomings. The picture and sound are fine, but the menus and EPG are very basic and cheap-looking. There is no proper program guide, only what is showing now and next for each channel individually, not in a list. The writing for this is very hard to read, in a blocky teletext style font. As it is not an official freesat box it also does not have red button features or BBC iPlayer. Its usability was so poor that I have returned it, and ordered a Manhattan Plaza HD-S instead, which does not have the USB recording feature but in every other respect is much better.