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Stuff magazine
Tue, Sep 4 2007, 6:00AM
Many Freeview PVRs are so busy cramming in outputs and tuners they neglect the most important thing – ease of use. So when a simple, well-considered product like the DVR 64250T comes along you just want to jump on it like it’s a lifeboat.
What the Sagem does is record programmes from its impressive Freeview tuner, with its natural yet vibrant picture, to a big ole' hard disk drive. That’s it.
Simple, in a good way
From the set-up process, which walks you through the introductory phase with clear, graphical menus, through to the similarly assured EPG, it’s all so easy.
From the set-up process, which walks you through the introductory phase with clear, graphical menus, through to the similarly assured EPG, it’s all so easy.
Even the one-size-fits-all recording quality (which, OK, some might see as a flaw) feeds into the feeling of effortlessness.
To be honest, with such a capacious hard drive for so few pennies you can’t really complain. It’ll easily eat up a good 100 hours of telly before it refuses any more and it means you can be assured that all recordings will be of decent quality.
It ain’t pretty
If anything’s worth complaining about it’s the slightly tacky build quality, both of the main unit and the remote control, which sports horrible squishy buttons set in a plasticky, cheap casing.
You’d be embarrassed to sit the Sagem next to Humax’s shiny, lovely-looking PVR-9200T but then the Humax costs £60 more and holds 90GB less than Sagem’s plain Jane.
But really, considering the picture quality and all the storage you get for so little money, the DVR 64250T could be fashioned from wicker and we’d still want one.
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