Sharp FVDB2ES Review

“At £55 + delivery from Empire Direct it seemed too...”

Written on: 21/08/2006 by qwertyloop (2 reviews written)

Good Points
Pause / rewind
Easy to use
Inexpensive (£55)

Bad Points
Appaling FM reception
Poor DAB reception
Display unreadable from above

General Comments
At £55 + delivery from Empire Direct it seemed too good to be true, and it probably is. I am hoping the replacement unit will receive FM and DAB radio better. The DAB radio makes a garbled noise in my kitchen. Upstairs it works much better, but thats not where I want to use it. FM reception is really bad, with no radio 1, 2, 3, or 4 just a mashup of several stations simultaneously. There should be no reception problems in Bristol. The lovely blue backlit LCD can not be read from above while the unit is on a table, so you have to either sit down or tilt the radio up when changing stations. I assume the set is faulty and hope the replacement fixes these problems.