Anyone heard any full-featured mid-price Freeview PVR/DVD-HD rumours?

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Hi,

Just looking at my own wish-list, what's on the market already and what other people I talk to want, we can't be very far from being able to buy one box that has ...

• a freeview HD tuner with a reasonable-sized HDD - ideally one that allows me to watch one and record the other
• a good EPG
• a DVD-R that plays CDs as well
• comes in at a mid-price (£200-£350)

One that lets me watch Blue Ray disks would be even better!

I keep meaning to buy something to cover all of these, but I think I want to wait for one box to cover the lot. Anyone heard any rumours?

 

[daveh75]

They do exist, but you're going to need to re-think your budget i'm affraid, with Freeview HD still being a relatively new standard.

The only ones i'm aware of atm are the Panasonic range,and are still pricey...

Panasonic-DMRXW380-DVD-HDD-Recorder

Panasonic DMR-BW780EBK 250GB HDD Blu-Ray Recorder

Panasonic DMR-BW880EBK 500GB HDD Blu-Ray Recorder

Product comparison HERE

 

[Anonymous]

Ahem. Yes. I see your point on the rethinking.

All of that said, all of these markets seem to be dominated by a need to get the right-priced components in and shift volume - so a sub-£300 one can't be that far away, can it?

I'm glad there's one that records Blu-Ray though.

 

[daveh75]

Pauliewaulie:all of these markets seem to be dominated by a need to get the right-priced components in and shift volume - so a sub-£300 one can't be that far away, can it?Well they've already dropped a fair bit tbh, the DMR-BW880 was originally the best part of £1000...

Though the original Freesat versions were also ludicrously priced to start with, and prices dropped like a stone,so you never know they're still maybe movement in those prices yet.

 

[Anonymous]

I've just seen the Philips HDT8520 at £225 - and a similar offering from Humax for about £70 more. These are both affordable Freview + HD PVRs.

Surely it can't be long now before someone sticks at least a DVD-R onto one of these? I'm sort-of holding off buying simply because I don't want too many boxes in the house...

 

[Anonymous]

.... and keeping an eye on the prices, they're falling.

This has everything I want and its £482 now:

http://tinyurl.com/39dwm5d

It won't be long before we're under the £300 mark!