- HDD Capacity - 160GB
- Remote Control Included
- Colour - Silver/Black
- Recording Time - up to 120 Hours
- Warranty - 3 months
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| Thomson Top Up TV+ 160GB Digital TV Recorder – With Freeview As well as being able to watch all the Freeview channels through your aerial with this Thomson Top Up TV+ Digital TV Recorder ( DTR) you can pause and rewind whatever you’re watching so you never need to miss any of the action.With its 160GB hard disk, you can record up to 120 hours of TV without tapes including recording 2 channels at once. Plus you can record a whole series at the touch of a button. But that's not all... Top Up TV Anytime and PictureBox Included Free for One Month | ||||||||||
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| You’ll get these two extra services for one month at absolutely no extra cost. And there’s no annual contract if you choose to stay with us. | ||||||||||
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This product has been professionally repaired and repackaged but may have some minor scratches on the outer cabinet - Comes with 3 month warranty Top Up TV Freeview+ offers a new way of watching TV. Now you can access all Freeview channels, Pause Live TV, record 2 channels at the same time and more with a Top Up TV Freeview+ DTR. Its like Sky+ on Freeview. You can also top up your TV choice with programmes from great Pay-TV channels with Top Up TV Favourites, enjoy great sport, catch blockbuster movies on PictureBox and the great news is your first month of Top Up TV Favourites and PictureBox is now included in the price. No long term contracts No phone or broadband tie ins No dish or cable Gives you the flexibility to add on TV packages in the future It's the best value 160GB DTR on the market.
(£20 connection fee and terms and conditions apply)
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46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Do not touch this with a barge pole!,
By John (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Thomson Top Up TV - 160GB Freeview Digital TV Recorder - With Free Top Up TV Trial (Electronics)
This has to be the biggest heap of junk I have ever had the misfortune to use! Firstly it will make your living room sound like there is a jumbo jet taking off in it! This I could just about deal with but the most annoying thing is it doesn't record! Out of the 10 recorings I tried to make 9 of them became corrupted and were automatically deleted (which you only find out once you check your messages). Dont be fooled by all the fixes available, I spent a week trying to get the thing to work but gave up and got my money back. This is a cheap, tacky piece of junk and the only reason I gave it one star was because that was the lowest it could go!
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good in theory, less thrilling in practice,
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This review is from: Thomson Top Up TV - 160GB Freeview Digital TV Recorder - With Free Top Up TV Trial (Electronics)
Enough of these reviews have been written already... I just want to bring the average down from the inexplicable 2.5 stars it's at already :)
The price was right, but maybe I should have been more wary about expecting it was possible to get this much technology so cheaply. The basic features are all there, and it's nicely laid out and easy to use, and when it works, it works quite well. However there are, like in most of the preceding comments, a number of flies in the otherwise tasty soup. Things are somewhat improved with the most recent over-the-air software update (which may take a few days to be re-sent if you have a freshly purchased box), and so the main concept of queueing up programmes in the EPG to be recorded for later viewing is generally reliable... which it certainly wasn't originally (though that may have been something to do with our originally poor aerial), but even over the last fortnight there have been some issues such as a couple of mistimed recording starts (being an hour or so early, though it at least didn't cut short), one corrupt recording that locked the box the first few times I tried to delete it, three or four missed recordings and failed series links, and the ever-present fastforward and rewind glitches (occasionally going so far as to freeze the thing), and couple of silly annoyances like not being able to start an ad-hoc second recording without actually adding it from the EPG rather than using the "one touch record" function. Plus the incessant disc and fan humming (more audible, across the room, than the laptop I'm typing on right now, and of a more annoying tone particularly because it keeps "revving" up and down as if it's about to explode), the slowwwww startup time, and how it - apparently - uses a good 17 watts *even at standby*. I'm on the cusp of sending this back, if I can't get a reasonable assurance from Thomson that a fix will soon be forthcoming for these final niggles... and if said promise isn't delivered on promptly. It may cost a little more to get a rival PVR, but it'll also be far better value. I'm not bothered by losing the Top-up ability after all - it wasn't a great part of the purchasing decision, and by all reports it's pretty weak. That or revive our Virgin cable subscription (dormant for a while due to cost) and get their V-Box ... providing that isn't just as flaky as the Thomson device or as underpowered as the older (Pace) Virgin digital cable box. It's a good choice if you absolutely want the recording ability and extra top-up channels, and haven't got the money for Sky or the ability for cable to be installed... but otherwise, not so great. Make your decisions accordingly.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Would be Great if it only worked.....HUGE dissapointment,
By freakfunk (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Thomson Top Up TV - 160GB Freeview Digital TV Recorder - With Free Top Up TV Trial (Electronics)
I don't normally take the time to review goods but because of the problems i've had i felt i should.
I've had the box for for 2 months now, my 2nd box i should say. The box seems to reset itself constantly, this is a manufacturing fault, and as if yet no update has been made to correct it. It seems to happen when things are set to tape, it just switches itself of and wont go back on. Incredibly annoying sitting for 5 minutes waiting for it to correct itself. even if you unplug it and replug it you still have to wait 3-5 minutes before the picture comes back, annoying when your watching sport or the news or something. I think its a great idea, however it just simply doesnt work, and theres nothing i can do to fix it.
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