It's been years since I've done a product review on this blog (I don't buy many devices, admittedly) so this is a bit of an outlier I suppose.
About a year ago I bought a Dion Freeview box in the hope that I'd be able to get additional Freeview channels, such as Talking Pictures, some extra +1 channels not available on my current system and also the HD channels. A few weeks ago I swapped the two boxes over.
Since then I have discovered that as I have an old fashioned non-flat cathode-ray tube (CRT) television
with one SCART socket and one aerial socket (and that's it) perhaps my
options were probably always going to be limited - I don't get any extra channels.
Either the age of the television or the aerial means that it was a waste
of money (it wasn't expensive) and I have the same channels that I
already have, so I am going to switch back to the old one, perhaps when I've
finished watching Pride & Prejudice.
No extra channels is only mildly annoying, in that nothing's been improved, but there is something more annoying.
Since I swapped the boxes I've been irritated by an almost constant pop up alert on screen asking if I want
to search. This appears randomly, but when it starts up it appears
every 30 seconds (and stays on screen for 10 seconds). Surely if I do
nothing the system should assume I don't want to search and dismiss
itself, sadly this doesn't happen.
Online forums suggest doing a 'first installation' but clearly I did that when I installed it a few weeks ago. I've let it check for new channels (sometimes the message is 'LCN has changed') but this has made no difference.
The Dion Freeview box from Tesco is therefore unusable if you want to WATCH television (I often use Freeview to listen to Radio 4 (though you can't do that on this box) so don't care so much what's happening on the screen then) and so I cannot recommend it.
It is currently interefering with my enjoyment of Colin Firth's Mr Darcy so I'm mightily peeved, hence moved to write a blog post bleating about it.
I very rarely replace a product with a new one if the old one is still working (very glad I kept the old one!) so let this be a lesson to me. Next time I'll do more research :)
If you have a Dion DTR250SS10 or PSTB1AW09+ click on the links to read or download their manuals.
Monday, 1 January 2018
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