nikkai a52hf review

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Average Ratings

Features	3.5/10
Ease of Use	4.2/10
Value for Money	3.7/10
Reviewer Rating	3.7/10
Overall Rating	3.6/10

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By boatingbrock on 11th Feb 2008

boatingbrock's Ratings

Time DVR Owned	1 - 6 Months
Features	4/10
Ease of Use	4/10
Value for money	1/10
Overall value	1/10
boatingbrock's recommendation

Good Points

Compact, can choose size of HDD

Bad Points

C5 reception / reliability

General Comments

I ordered the Nikkai A52HF on 4/12/08 from Maplin and took delivery of it shortly after. As it was a Christmas gift, it was not put into use until 27/12/08 or thereabouts. I fitted the unit with a new 160GB drive and began to use it.

Most channels were received OK , but Channel 5 reception was rather poor, so I changed the aerial with little improvement. I fitted an aerial booster but still Channel 5 was not received well - the picture would break up or freeze, and the audio would also cut out now and again.

My 4 year old Mitsui set top box coped with either aerial arrangement faultlessly, as did a recently purchased Digital LCD TV, so basically, there is little wrong with my aerial set-up.

I might have tolerated the poor performance for C5 (although C4 was not that great) except that the PVR function then stopped working:

In the last couple of days I have found that whilst the unit appears to be recording, on trying to play back, nothing has been recorded - the file is listed as either 0MB or 1MB, but is evidently empty. Older recordings still played OK, and the pause TV is still working.

In an attempt to get the PVR mode working, I re-formatted the drive, losing all saved material, but this has made no difference. I have to conclude that this unit is not really fit for purpose, and am currently seeking a return authorisation from Maplin.

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