August DVB400 HD Freeview Set Top Boxp Box Receiver Record

I bought this little box to watch the world cup matches in HD on my older 40 inch TV in the kitchen. I have to say installation was quick and easy and the quality of the HD pictures were excellent. The box is very small, only a little larger and fatter than an apple TV so I have it sat on top of my set (which is wall mounted). It shipped with the latest firmware (3.7) so no issues with lip sync. Also changing channels is snappy.I briefly tried out the time shift feature after plugging in a usb dongle, so I could pause and rewind live TV which works fine but there is a progress bar along the bottom of the screen while in this mode. I have not fully tested the record mode as yet This item was ordered Friday and I requested Sunday delivery and it arrived on Sunday, so great service. I recommend this item if you want to get HD free view pictures. Some previous reviewers have mentioned the remote, which although is small it is perfectly functional. I have ordered a One For All Essence 3 remote so I only have one remote for my three devices (TV,August and Roku LT) At £34 this is great value and I highly recommend ++update Ok so I have now tested the record feature. I set up to record the football on BBC1 HD for two hours and then record the news on BBC1 HD directly following. This worked perfectly, but my observation was that between recordings there is about a 10 sec gap while it ends the first recording and then counts down to start up the next. I have to say the recording quality is excellent and when played back on my TV and then on my iMac the image is superb. I should point out I used a usb hard drive for this test. I then put in a usb dongle and did test recordings with similar results, although over a shorter period of time due to the capacity on the usb dongle. To give you an idea of how much storage is used in HD recordings, the 2 hour 5 min recording came to 7.59 gigs. It was recorded as a single file with the file name BBC_ONE_HD-06182014-1959.mts. I should also point out that when recording has started you cannot adjust or add further recordings without stopping the current one. Considering this device is around £30 I think it is an outstanding piece of kit, all you need is a usb dongle or usb drive and you have a fully featured PVR, but for me I am happy to just use it for the excellent HD channels

I REALLY wish I could give this a 0 star rating! This is an awful little product, it is sluggish, needs to be retuned every week and the record function is embarrassing! I bought this for my grandma who still hasn’t got the internet or satellite TV! She already had a free view box that she could record programmes and set reminders from but this still worked off the SCART connection on her TV, I thought I’d get her one that she could could utilise her HDMI connection with, but I want to emphasise the fact that THIS BOX IS THE WORST THING IVE EVER BOUGHT FROM ANYWHERE! Just to summarise why... 1) It took 2 attempts to programme the box initially, the first time it found 8 channels! 2) When I finally got the channels to install, it takes the EPG (programme guide) around 5 minutes to load the channels 3) The EPG itself is less advanced than a free view box I had 10 years ago, you have to change the channel to see what is on that particular channel 4) The lag is ridiculous, this alone makes the box a waste of time, you press a button and nothing happens, press it again, still nothing, so you press again, this time after a few seconds it receives all 3 commands at the same time and you’ve skipped 3 channels; and so the process starts again... 5) The ‘record’ function! This is not a function that this box should have! It hardly has the CPU power to run the EPG, try running the box while it records another programme! WASTE OF TIME! 6) Just to top it off and to to put the final nail in the coffin for the box, it randomly decides to factory restore itself every week (the only thing that it does consistently!) meaning that you need to go through the whole process of retuning! These are only the 6 most frustrating things about this box! I will be returning! Don’t waste your money and I would strongly recommend that you disregard all reviews of this product that praise its performance. DO NOT BUY!!!!!

Tempi spedizione ottimi. Apparecchio ottimo!! Lo uso attraverso la presa hdmi e restituisce ottime immagini sia per canali Hd e non. Per adesso lo uso con penna da 32gb connessa senza problemi. Riconosce sia Fat32che Ntfs. Telecomando buono, lo uso dal letto (3m circa)e risponde bene. Ho notato che la sintonizzazione se digiti il canale ci mette 2/3 secondi ad apparire ma non mi sembra un grosso problema..soprattutto xche io lo uso solo per registratore xche la Tv ha già il decoder integrato. Rispetto al vecchio decoder che avevo è 1000 volte meglio..Registrazione migliore qualità, ingresso hdmi, nessun problema con chiavette di grosse dimensioni, immagini di migliore qualità. 5 stelle meritate ovviamente in considerazione del prezzo!! Lo ricomprerei sicuramente e lo consiglio!

Simple a installer , je l ai mis dans la chambre sur une television hd ready (qui ne recoit pas les chaines HD), double connection, peritel et hdmi, tres utile pour les anciens televiseurs, port usb pour lire vos films et enregistrer vos programmes au formats standarts et en HD 1920*1080 SANS PROBLEME ,mais si vous voulez enregistrer le meme programme en resolution inferieur ,pas de probleme vous descendez la resolution en 720p 576 etc , sur clef usb ou disque dur ,les 2 fonctionnent .... les fichiers enregistrés sont récupérables pour le pc et lisible directement sur mon televisieur principal samsung sans reencodage ( mais si vous enregistrez 2 à 3 heures , le première fichier est reconnu puis les autres il faut changer l'extension , mais c est normal puisque la video est fractionné vu la taille .Vous renommer simplement les fichiers en avi ou mp4 par exemple ).je recois toutes les chaines + LES 6 chaines HD, je n'ai pas trouvé un meilleur qualité prix (prevoir cordons peritel ou hdmi). j habite au dessus de montpellier ,la couverture tnt est correct. Lecture des fichier mkv , mp4 , et divx en HD... un point negatif !, je dirais un ptit temps de latence au changement de chaine ,mais c est relatif ,1 à 2 secondes..... En resumé ,je suis sastifait et j en ai pris un 2 eme pour ma mere agée de 72 ans qui ne veut pas se separer de son vieux televiseur analogique ....

Der August DVB400 ist ein exellenter DVBT receiver der sogar einen HD mediaplayer integriert hat . sämtliche Formate incl mkv sind für Ihn kein Problem.timeshift und epg Aufnahmen beherscht er perfekt . Für diesen Preis ein sehr zu empfehlendes Gerät.

Económico, pequeño y de fácil manejo. Reproduce en una TV de tubo los canales en HD (previa conversión a SD) y reproduce perfectamente fichero de video desde un pen drive. Muy satisfecho.

Por ahora estoy contenta, es lo que etaba buscando, sencillo de manejar y útil. Estoy satisfecha con la compra. Lo recomiendo