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Sagem DTR94250S 250GB HD Satellite Digital TV Recorder with Freesat HD
 
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Sagem DTR94250S 250GB HD Satellite Digital TV Recorder with Freesat HD

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  • Simultaneous viewing of one channel and recording another channel
  • Build a library of your favourite shows
  • HD viewing with HDMI upscaling
  • 8 Day Programme Guide
  • Parental Control
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  • Boxed-product Weight: 3.2 Kg
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  • Item model number: DTR94250
  • ASIN: B00374I6HK
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 1 Aug 2009
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,486 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
    #16 in  Electronics > Home Cinema & Video > TV Receivers
    #26 in  Electronics > Portable Sound & Vision > Handheld TVs
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HD Recording made easy!

Our Sagem freesat + DTR94250S HD recorder offers you over 140 channels and radio and free HD programmes to enjoy with no monthly costs or subscriptions. The 250GB hard disk drive means that you never have to miss your favourite programme again, just set up your recording from the TV guide by pressing the record button, you can even record a series at the touch of a button. With the Twin Tuner you can watch one digital channel while recording another, or record two channels simultaneously whilst watching a previous recording. You can also Pause and Rewind live TV! The parental control code enables you to control what you children watch, giving you full control.

diagram of a HD Ready TV
Hear movies and enjoy your entertainment like never before

You can now sit back and enjoy all of what freesat + has to offer in one smart simple to use Sagem product. Just plug it in to enjoy and record your favourite programmes and movies in HD.

Whats on in HD?

Watching TV in High Definition (HD) gives you deeper, richer, more lifelike pictures. freesat offers up to 70 hours a week of the best of BBC and ITV in amazing free HD.

BBC iPlayer

With BBC iPlayer on freesat, you can catch-up on your favourite BBC programmes from the last seven days or catch-up on whole series you may have missed, whenever you want and from the comfort of your sofa.

Pause, rewind and play BBC TV programmes from the past week or discover new BBC TV series’ you may have missed the first time around.

All the benefits of watching TV on BBC iPlayer, direct to your main TV set. freesat HD receiver and minimum 1 Mbps broadband connection required.

250 GB hard disk drive

What does it mean for you? Basically if there is something you would like to record and watch at a later date then you can by pressing the record button or setting it up to record if it is on at a later time or date. The 250GB hard disk drive gives you up to 80 hours of recording time.

Want great sound quality?

You won’t just see amazing images, you will also ‘feel’ part of the on screen action. Just use the audio connections on your freesat digital box to connect to your home cinema system, then you will hear movies and enjoy your entertainment like never before.

Coverage

freesat is ready for the switchover. As you know the digital switchover is happening across the UK. Thanks to the full UK coverage freesat offers, you can start enjoying digital programmes, including HD from the BBC and ITV, straightaway. Your Sagem freesat DTR94250S HD recorder is suitable for the digital switchover wherever you live in the UK.

diagram of a HD Ready TV
Images can appear up to five times sharper

User Friendly EPG

Our innovative and easy to use EPG makes selecting your chosen channel easy. Just press the guide button on the remote control and use the controls to scroll up and down the channels to your desired programme. The programme guide will show you what is showing over the next eight days and from that you can set up your recordings as well.

Series Link

If the programme you love is part of a series you can simply select to record the whole series at a touch of a button. It will prompt you when you press record whether you want to just record that episode or the whole series; simple.

High Definition - How it works

Just because you have an HD Ready TV, it does not mean that you are watching in HD. By adding a freesat HD digital box to your HD ready TV, you will be able to enjoy crystal clear images with no costly monthly payments.

This means a much clearer picture, images can appear up to five times sharper which makes the whole experience more lifelike.

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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good product (but a bit noisy), 3 Jun 2010
By Curlynob (Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sagem DTR94250S 250GB HD Satellite Digital TV Recorder with Freesat HD (Electronics)
To give you a bit of a warning - when it comes to Audio Visual gear, I'm not quite as techie minded as some that leave reviews on these pages! I've never had Sky, but I have had Freeview either in a box form or built into my TV for quite a few years now. When I ordered this Freesat box, I was hoping for:

1.An end to that jarring and splicing you sometimes get
2.To take advantage of the HD Ready-ness of my existing TV
3.To get the Sky Plus functionality (whereby you can pause and rewind live tv)
4.To get some extra new TV Channels

In short, this Freesat HD box does all of this. The picture quality is noticeably better than my old Freeview picture - even on the standard TV Channels, and there is absolutely no splicing or picture breakup. The unit comes supplied with an HDMI cable (which I'm pretty sure is unusual) and the two HD Channels you get (BBC HD and ITV 1HD) are impressive. I was flicking between standard BBC and BBC HD which were both showing the same show and even on a 22" screen there's a noticeable difference. Some people say that once you've seen HD it's hard to go back, but to be honest I think they're probably a bit more discerning than I am - I'm quite satisfied with the quality of the standard channels - the HD ones are just a bonus. The Electronic Program guide (EPG) and the whole menu system is extremely easy to use. In fact I wrongly assumed that pausing and rewinding live TV would be more complicated than it actually is! I looked to the instructions to find that you simply press "pause" to pause the program, you can then go and make a cup of tea, answer the phone and come back and press "play" again. It's quite a revelation. To record an up and coming show, you simply bring up the EPG (which is very clear and easy to use) highlight the program you want and press record - job done. It even asks you whether you want to record the whole series whilst you're at it (series link to Sky Plus customers). You can also record one channel and watch another or record two different channels at the same time.

As the name might suggest, "freeSAT" requires a Satellite Dish. This for the purposes of transparency is not included. Because this is a Freesat recorder you will require a "dual feed" dish. In exchange for £120 + VAT, my local TV shop sent a very nice man called Nigel round to fit the dish. It took him about half an hour to fix the unit to the side of the house, drill a hole through the wall into the lounge and set everything up for me. That's right, he even set the thing up and showed me how to use it. A Single feed dish (which would NOT give you the record one channel and watch another feature) would be slightly cheaper at about £80 + VAT. I rang three suppliers in my area and they all wanted similar money. All in then I have paid about £320 for the complete setup. There are absolutely no additional subscription fees to pay or further running costs. The dish itself is quite small and fairly discreet on the side of the house, which I was pleased about.

The Sagem Freesat HD Recorder unit itself is not particularly pretty. I don't know really what other Freesat boxes look like, but this one is not exactly slim line. It's got some bold clunky looking logos on the front, an uncovered USB socket (which doesn't appear to be active or do anything) and a couple of basic looking buttons. It looks nicer in the picture than it does in real life. The LCD display is a bright orange colour, which is certainly clear but perhaps a little too orange for my tastes. When turned on the unit is a bit noisy. If you're sat in the chair closest to the TV it's a little distracting. It's a noise equivalent to the fan on my tower computer but because it's higher up and unfamiliar, it is much more noticeable.

As I mentioned, I was hoping for more TV Channels. There are some new ones, but you do lose some old ones too (compared to standard Freeview) - which was a little disappointing and something that I hadn't really considered. Dave and Dave Ja Vu are both gone. In honesty, I would swap most of the new channels just to have Dave back - although technically I could now just series link QI. Sky Three, Virgin and Yesterday are also gone. The new channels you do get include CBS Drama, CBS Action and CBS something else, which basically means you're good for old American TV Shows like Dynasty. There's also the Horror Channels and a channel called BET which is not anything to do with Betting but quite a good channel in its own right. You also get all of the BBC regional channels, so if you're homesick for your BBC North West or East Midlands programming, that might be appealing. The channels are all in different places to Freeview (BBC One is 101 for example) but the EPG does make it easy to find what you're looking for. There is an Ethernet socket at the back through which you can connect to the internet to watch BBC iPlayer, although I already enjoy this wirelessly though my Wii.

To sum up: I'm very pleased with the quality of the picture and the "Sky Plus" functionality of the Recorder. Not exactly overwhelmed with the new channels and a little disappointed to have lost some of the old channels (although that's not this product's fault). The box is a bit noisy although in fairness I am starting to get used to it. Overall, yes very pleased.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Splendid, if a little noisy on standby, 1 Jun 2010
By Jimbo "Jimbo L" (Manchester) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sagem DTR94250S 250GB HD Satellite Digital TV Recorder with Freesat HD (Electronics)
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I have been a subscriber to Sky for the last twenty years and am becoming increasingly annoyed by their 'charge what we want, we have a monopoly' attitude, especially when it comes to HD viewing, so I was really pleased to be able to test out this freesat recorder by Sagem.
Set up is relatively simple - a real 'plug and play' situation (connect the HDMI, connect the dish cable and off you go). I say relatively for the following reasons:
1) If, like me you have an old Sky receiver then you will only have one cable coming from your satellite dish. This means if you want to be able to view one channel and record another (or record two channels at once) you will have to climb up on your roof, connect another cable to your dish, and drill holes in your living room wall to be able to connect it. (For Sky+ and dishes after 2002 this isn't an issue as more recent dishes have two or four outputs).
2) You cannot have both your Sky and your freesat connected to your dish at the same time (unless you have a more recent dish - see above).
3) To watch BBC iplayer, you will need to connect your broadband directly to your freesat box via a cable.

However, after connecting the Sagem up, the onscreen setup is really straightforward, the channels are placed automatically in a simple to understand order and the TV guide was really easy to get to grips with. A few things to point out:
1) There are presently only two HD channels available on freesat - BBC HD and ITV1HD - both of which have great content (ITV1HD is basically a copy of ITV1, with mostly HD content and the odd upscaled programme, BBCHD is the cream of the BBC with a real mish mash of programmes from BBC channels) - which means that if you are planning on watching the World Cup in HD, these are the only channels you will need - for free! Well, after paying for the box it is free.
2) If you are used to Sky then you will miss quite a few of your favourite channels - Sky News, Sky Sports etc.
3) The plan is that a larger number of HD channels will be made available over the next two years (to coincide with the digital rollout). In my opinion, the two HD channels available at the moment are excellent so any further ones will be a bonus.
4) Ony the two HD channels offer 5.1 surround sound at present.

Now after testing the recording function and the HD content (as well as the 'normal' content) I can find only one fault with this - the thing is really noisy when in Standby mode and I find myself unplugging it from the mains after each use. Apart from that this is a great product and has got me eagerly awaiting the day I can switch Sky off for good.

Edit: The noise on standby only seems to happen for about ten minutes after pressing the power off button, and for some reason at about 8.00 in the morning. So patience is the word here.....
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21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good but NOT a complete kit, 22 May 2010
By Mr. Philip Harkins "If in doubt, Smile! :-)" (London) - See all my reviews
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Arrived a day after ordering. Disappointed to find it did not include a satellite dish so had to wire it through my existing one to try it. Actually quite impressed with the picture quality and the hard drive recording. As a sky+ HD user I am used to their layout and quality and this measures up quite well. I had not realised the number of Freesat channels especially the HD..... all with no monthly fee!

As there is no dish I would say this is really aimed at the market where people have left Sky and are looking for cheaper alternatives and are happy not to have all the paid channels, but do view the list of Freesat channels as there are more than enough. It relies on you having a double LNB dish (typical Sky+ setup) which is the type that has two leads from it if you want to record one and watch another, and a cable splitter is not an alternative. It will work though as a "watch live only" system if you only have one lead. A real bonus is the access to BBC iPlayer though this does rely on you having your own fast broadband (above 1 meg) I have not used a lot of the recording space but there seems to be plenty (250GB is the same as the new Sky+HD box). All in all I will not be leaving Sky just yet, but if I was I would certainly consider this as a very credible and significantly cheaper alternative in the long run. You would save the cost of it in about 8 months by not paying a moderate Sky package.

For the technically minded amongst you it has the following connectors at the back: 2 satellite inputs (NO RF out) 2 SCART sockets, L+R audio out, Digital audio out, ethernet socket (needed to play BBCiPlayer from your own broadband), HDMI out, Analogue Component video out (Y Pb Pr)
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