pioneer dbr-tf100gb review

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Average Ratings

Features	8.3/10
Ease of Use	9.7/10
Value for Money	9/10
Overall rating	9.1/10

100% Recommended7 out of 7 Reviews

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By snowcatty on 5th Aug 2004

snowcatty's Ratings

Time DVB Owned	Between 1 - 4 Weeks
Features	8/10
Ease of Use	9/10
Value for money	9/10
Overall value	9/10
snowcatty's recommendation

Good Points

Easy set-up, good menu system, fast on interactive services and in general, fine picture and sound quality, screensaver..

Bad Points

Nothing major so far, info/guide use could be more intuitive?

General Comments

Got a Pioneer DBR-TF100GB as a birthday present last month to replace my old Pace Adapter which just died for no apparent reason. I was glad, despite the very reasonable quality of sound and picture they both used to go out of sync very easily and as for the stupid connection on the back requiring a splitter which reduced signal strength and increased popping.. pah. The Pioneer on the other hand oozes class. Looks-wise it's fine but nothing special but it does a great job. Quick and easy to set up. A doddle to get your favourite channels lined up too (unlike the Pace which would suddenly bring back chanels you didn't want.. and it looked like a slice of cheese). Using BBCi and changing channels is fast and easy. Sound quality is great and there's an optical out for you AV amp/PC/minidisc users. Picture quality is great and though you can specify a default aspect (wide, cropped, letterbox) in the menu you can also scroll through these using the handset. You get 2 scarts and an RF through (at last!). Menu is easy to use though info and guide could be slightly better organised (and when do we get the 24hr EPG?). There's a nice screensaver to save TV burn when 'watching' radio channels and, must have one of these, a fun if useless gimmick.. video captures! Simply hit the left arrow while watching anything and you see your capture and have the choice to keep or delete. Later you can scroll through them... if you like that sort of thing.
Overall a class act, solid, hardly a blip so far using a Ch 5 aerial, I thoroughly recommend it.

Total Respect: +1