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Technical Details

  • Digital Terrestrial PVR with CI
  • MPEG-2 Digital and fully DVB compliant
  • 2000 services (TV and Radio) programmable
  • Multilingual audio support
  • Multilingual menu text support
  • Service switching time less than 1 second
  • Favorite service list editing
  • True-color On-Screen Display (OSD)
  • Full Picture In Graphic (PIG) function
  • Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for on screen service information
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Product details

  • Item Weight: 4 Kg
  • Boxed-product Weight: 4.1 Kg
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  • Item model number: TF5800
  • ASIN: B000CFY9P0
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 1 Jan 2006
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 43,504 in Electronics & Photo (See Bestsellers in Electronics & Photo)

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Manufacturer's Description

The TF 5800 allows you to view and record digital TV channels easily, via an ordinary television aerial. You can receive all the Freeview channels broadcast in your area, which includes a range of digital radio stations too. In addition, with a small subscription module, you can access some additional channels from pay TV broadcasters.

This PVR allows you to record two different programmes simultaneously, and even to play back existing recordings while you're making new ones. With its large hard drive, there's plenty of space for all the shows you want to watch, and the built in electronic programme guide (EPG) makes it easy to find programmes and schedule automatic recordings.

As well as recording and playback of TV programmes, it has plenty of other features. You can pause TV when the phone rings, for example, or rewind a sports match to watch someone score a second time. Channels can be arranged into groups of 'favourites,' and there are other useful features like picture in picture, MP3 playback, interactive services and even a link to your home computer via USB.



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*** Latest black face lift version - Silver version has now been discontinued ***
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52 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic piece of kit, 25 Oct 2006
By I. P. Benson "Iain" (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
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I've had the Topfield (160gb version) for around 18 months, and I can no longer live without it; I rarely watch appointment TV anymore. The ability to use the 7-Day EPG to record up-coming programmes at the touch of a button, and easily set it to record each week, weekday, or daily with just a couple of extra buttons is so convenient. Plus, the pause, bookmark and rewind facilities for when I am watching live TV are major plus points. It holds loads of programmes, has the ability to create sub-folders so each family member can have their own. There's the 30-second-skip function, for zipping through the ads, and the build quality is also excellent.

Previous gripes with the interface have been resolved with the latest firmware version (released in July), which adds to its ease of use and fixes any issues I've ever had.

Other major plus points are the community of people who own the box, and a web site where easy downloads of firmware are available (with idiot proof instructions). It does require a PC/Mac to use this aspect, but straight out of the box, it's still a marvellous piece of kit.

There's some noise when the unit's recording and the TV's not on to mask it, but it's not 'loud'.
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111 of 113 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars If you don't get this model, you'll wish you had ..., 6 Jan 2007
By Mark Bamford (UK) - See all my reviews
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We have 4 different boxes from 4 different manufacturers and use them all on a daily basis (unlike some professional reviewers) and this knocks spots off anything else on the market.

Set-up is the easiest ever, and the instruction manual is the best written for any product I have ever come across.

Very quiet when on - no fans. Silent when on standby.

Excellent tuners (knocks spots off the others we have)

Outstanding features and ease of use - as standard, I haven't even looked at TAPPS.

ONE MAJOR ADVANTAGE THAT YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT BEFORE BUYING ANY PVR OR DIGIBOX:
It appears that the way that most boxes work when auto-tuning is that they scan the frequencies and store the first channel they come across - which is not necessarily the strongest signal. Thus you may have poor quality reception on some channels as the box has tuned into the weaker signal. This is the way our other (new and expensive) boxes works. We only diagnosed the problem with the rest of the boxes after we bought the Topfield which scans and stores ALL signals and lets you use the strongest. Thus we are able to watch stations that were not usable on the other boxes.
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73 of 74 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionary Product ... a must have, 13 Sep 2006
By A. E. Brett (London) - See all my reviews
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This is the product I have been waiting a while for. It is brillant & I am not connected in any way with the company ...

The version I have (bought early-2006) has been just amazing. There are a few less positive comments around on the web & elsewhere, but I think these related to earlier versions of the software, which may have been a bit less good. The current version is excellent. We have been running it constantly now since purchase without a single glitch.

We constantly record one program while watching a second, or watch a recording of one program while recording 2 other programmes! We pause & rewind live TV while recording.

The box is full of amazing features: Play a program, want to jump forward? Type a number between 1 - 100 and the play jumps to that "Percent" through the program ... i.e. type "50" into the remote & it jumps to 50%, half-way through.

The program guide is very good, and a simple click on any program sets it to be recorded. This feature is very reliable, though you sometimes get a few extra minutes of the next or prior program recorded as well.

My house used to have a LOT of pressure on the TV, with lots of arguments about who was going to watch what ... that's a thing of the past now, as we almost always record stuff & then watch it when we have time.

In fact I don't usually "just switch on" the TV any more ... I go straight to the Archive of recorded programs & flick through that until I find a great program I want to watch ... I often can only watch late at night, so this is fantastic, I can watch what I want, rather than some rubbish that's showing at midnight.

Don't just buy one, buy 2!

Adam
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