Recommend me a Freeview PVR recorder please...

just wondered if anyone has any recommendations for Freeview hard drive recorders as I have been looking at reviews online all afternoon and still none the wiser.

I got one for christmas that until it broke a few days later (no sound, bad picture) seemed great and if i could find another would go for that again but seem out of stock everywhere. This is it: http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...&Submit=GO+%3E

it didn't seem to have any of the faults such as 'screen freezes' that so many others seem to according to reviews.

anyway budget is anywhere between 100 - 130.
Top up TV is not required.

thanks in advance!

[mister c]

TBH I bought one from Asda for £59 a few months ago. My daughter records loads of stuff on it & never had a problem with it.
They are cheaper now because of the VAT change
40 gig hard drive for very little money, so I wont complain

yep from what i've been reading price does not necessarily seem to be a good indicator of quality with these things.

[Bluepete]

Humax are pretty much the market leader, they are available from £120 on Amazon

Pete

been looking for a replacement for our thompson one, which cost 60 quid, 160gb harddrive and died after 18 months,

amazinly i looked at the two top boxes humaz and topfield, and both still had teething annoyences or problems, humax takes ages to load a epg up etc,

in the end i went for another 60 pouund thompson box, as it does what it sasys on the tin, its easy for my girlfirend to use,

topfield and humax, if i was spending 200 to 300 pound on a box, i want no problems,

only problem the thompson has is it occasionly skips back when your fast forwarding,

Humax or Thompson are the market leaders. It'll be worth the extra cash to get one of them.

Topfield are the best. Humax second, and wouldn't even rate the rest.

[tigersaw]

I have humax and Topfield. Humax is a pretty basic does what it says on the tin, but the Topfield is amazing. Fully programmable with custom applications to control the timers and searches. Want to create a search like 'record anything with Top Gear in the title but not after 10pm and not on thursdays and no repeats and delete it after 2 weeks but not if I havn't watched it' ? Easy.

Both the Humax and the Topfield can be hard drive upgraded by just a swapout, unlike sky+ boxes.

Humax are the danglies.

apart from having to load a epg everytime out of stanby