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My local tesco is selling Technika HD freeview boxes for £30, reduced from £60. My Samsung LCD could benefit from some HD channels. Is it worth buying or are Technika rubbish?
Technika HD freeview set top
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I'd spend a bit more and get something like the I-Can Freeview HD 2851T instead. You can find it for just under £50. It also has a BBC iPlayer option on it as well.
Those Technika HD boxes were on the Tesco website for £15 the other day as well. Don't seem to be on there now though.
Those Technika HD boxes were on the Tesco website for £15 the other day as well. Don't seem to be on there now though.
Oh, well, I've bought one now, didn't see your reply. It's the Technika STBHDIS2010FVIEW. I'll see how it goes. I get great freeview SD reception here, but if the HD reception is poor or if the machine does funny things like freezing, turning itself off or anything like that, I'll return it.
This machine seems to be a piece of crap. Constantly rebooting itself, going into standby, not responding to remote control presses. These things seem to be confirmed by others on avforums. I'm taking it back and going to try the Humax HD-FOX T2 which is £99. I have to say, the signal strength on the HD channels was never above 57 to 64%, and signal quality fluctuated between 0 and 44%. Maybe that was making it reboot. before rebooting, the display on front of the technika says "CrC" then " boot", then goes into standby. I even lost picture on SD and HD channels earlier tonight, yet sound remained, and I could also get on screen menus.
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That box is discontinued? Anything else about for under £50?
I had the misfortune to buy one of the Technika STBHDIS2010FVIEWs too. Plenty of signal quality but the CrC reboot thing happened every 10 minutes or when you pressed any button on the remote. Managed to get my money back from Tesco though. Just feel sorry now for those unfortunates out there who see the £30 offer and like me expect the thing to at least work.
