NEW FULL HD Combo Freeview HD + Satellite HD Built in WiFi Receiver Compatible for Freesat and Sky Dish + USB HD Recorder, Digital TV Wi-Fi Set Top Box Terrestrial Tuner 4in1

Great with good selection of programmes. Highly recommend

Honestly...one star is too many. This receiver is the worst one I have ever come across. It's slow, glitchy, badly organised menu's make it an absolute nightmare to do anything meaningful. To be fair, if all you want to do is tune in every station available, it can do this with relative ease, and if you happy with channels being shuffled all over the place then this could be the one for you. However, if you like to organise channels, ie, BBC1 on 1 or 101 etc, it is going to take you a lifetime to manually move each channel individually through the hundreds of channels to the desired location, over and over, then the receiver decides to randomly restart whenever it all gets too much for it, which to be fair, is quite regular. Do yourself a favour, spend a few extra quid or even get a second hand openbox V5S or V8S. Far easier to use.

I bought this to take to France, where I watch UK Satellite TV. It was half the price of a typical "Freesat" box. I have tested in the UK, where it performs also as a terrestrial Freeview box - thus even more amazing value. First the Terrestrial UK performance, via the usual aerial input: The box was easy to set up and tuned in all the channels. The channels appeared in the normal Freeview sequence - BBC 1 BBC 2 ITV Channel 4 etc, starting at box channel 001 . The same for HD starting at box channel 101. The EPG (program guide) was well laid out and seemed to work just like any Freeview box. UK Satellite: the box was already set to the usual Astra satellite and tuned in easily - you do need to read the manual so you know how to choose whether you are doing terrestrial or satellite setup - a box that does everything is obviously going to be a little more complicated ! The satellite channels are not sorted for you in the way that a Freesat box does. This is a generic satellite receiver - all the 500 or so channels are there, not really too hard to find what you want, and you might like to pick a group of 'favourites' so all the channels you like are in one place. The program guide for satellite channels is restricted to "now and next", it seems. The switching between satellite and terrestrial is easy when you have done it once! I was able to play pictures and video file from a USB stick, also record a TV program onto a USB stick. In conclusion - this box is great value for what it offers, you do need to read the manual, and the picture quality is excellent, whether watching HD channels or looking at your photos.

Brilliant yet again

I bought this receiver to replace, eventually, my old Sony DVD/HDD recorder which is still working after 13 years but doesn`t have a High Definition tuner and, although it is possible to replace the hard drive if it fails, the same may not be true of the DVD player/recorder unit. Only Panasonic seem to selling similar units currently starting around £300 and the most desirable coming in at over £500. All that for a mere seven Freeserve HD channels. (High Definition broadcasts started in 2009 in the UK yet most channels are still only available as Standard Definition) So, if you want to receive a decent number of HD channels, you need satellite broadcasts. Having toyed with idea of using the computer as a Personal Video Recorder by way of USB tv dongles and finding that the ones I`ve tried don`t work reliably, if at all, I saw this iView unit at a reasonable price and decided to give it a try. The listing claims the unit can record to a USB stick (or an external Hard Drive) in HD from either terrestrial Freeserve or Free To Air satellite broadcasts. Good points: *The picture quality in HD is very, very good. *The recording to 32GB USB sticks by pressing REC on the remote works with a few glitches on HD. It records the broadcast transport stream as an .MTS file that you can transfer onto a computer if you wish (try that with a Panasonic recorder!) *The initial tuning in of Freeview is easy and quick and there`s a manual tuning option if needed. *For those with old tv sets and no HDMI connector there`s a SCART socket outputing CVBS, S-video, YUV or RGB signals as chosen by menu settings.You can also choose the video resolution. Disappointing points: * The PVR Configuration offers a maximum files size of 4GB. Not enough for an HD feature film broadcast from most sources so you miss the ending on a movie lasting longer than about 1 hour 33 minutes. And why a limitation on file size? Using NTFS file systems, on USB stick or hard drive, you can go way above 4GB. My previous satellite receiver from Golden Interstar (not the current model) managed to avoid these limitations. *There`s no loop-through connector for terrestrial tv. Nor an ethernet socket. *You have to purchase a USB Wi-fi dongle to access the internet. Using the one available USB socket that you use for recording. A dongle that uses the Mediatek 7601 chipset (if you can find what chipset your current dongle uses. Many manufacturers seem reluctant to divulge such information in their adverts). In the instruction booklet they say they sell it from their online shop but then fail to give you the website address. Bought mine on ebay but I haven`t managed to get it to work. There`s a menu option to configure a USB connection via DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) but I haven`t tried that yet. I presume it uses a cable plugged into the USB socket but I don`t really know. No help in the booklet. *Recording to an external hard drive sometimes worked and sometimes didn`t. Setting the device to record from the EPG didn`t work when I tried it. *A new recording erases the previous one in the same folder. Maybe I`ve missed something. *There doesn`t seem to be a manual tuning option for satellite broadcasts. *The instruction booklet is lacking technical detail. It also has no website address or e-mail address for support which the booklet seems to be offering. And certainly no real world name and address for the manufacturer/distributor. *There`s a guarantee card in the box. There`s a white space for the customer`s name on the back but the rest of the reverse of the card is black including where you need to put the serial number of the device and the date, presumably using your white pen. It also informs you that there`s a one year warranty "FROM THE DATE OF PRODUCTION". I thought it was consumer law that a warrranty should run from the date of purchase. * The remote control is slightly different to the one shown in the booklet. There`s no SAT button to change from Freeview to satellite broadcasts. You have to press ENTER then the RED ZOOM button. Would you have known that? Ididn`t. I found the answer on an internet forum. *At the back page of the instruction booklet is an appeal from whoever asking for our tolerance and promising to refund our money if we are unhappy with our purchase and asking us to not leave bad or unfair feedback. Quite bizarre. All things considered, this receiver is good value for money despite the criticisms listed above. It`s a good opportunity missed I think. If only software writers used their own applications! Or at least tested them thoroughly. I wonder why the manufacturer or distributor are so evasive.

*****

it’s a great idea, to use as a multi functional device for both Freeview DVB T2 and change the format to Satelite, using a roof top dish, D v B S2 and then , also, link the I .view to a small D V B Stereo disk player , to view home Movies. Or, listen to DVD disk player/ Radio ect. I would like to point Out, the down side as well??? I would like the Company to stop, using the very very thin plastic covering fixed to the main I View unit, this can result in the unit Overheating, if not removed!!! This fact could damage the unit , in use!!!