Daewoo DSD9502T Review

Overall Rating

Good looking case and has very good Clock that shows the time while in standby and shows the channel number when in use. It can still record even if you left it in standby mode. I do enjoy having it when all goes to plan I have been able to watch programs I would have missed.

Daewoo DSD9502T can not handle too many requests from the remote control it crashs everyday I had two in the house here and one started to shut-down and then start-up again problem was traced to the tuner had to add a splitter to fool it into working even if it dose cut the signal down on some channels it just about got through when it was not windy. Crashing is one big problem PVR seem to have. On days when the signal breaks up it can crash the recording it can get stuck in a loop you will loose the program or it broke up in two parts when it crashes during record or no recording it has crashed and missed some timer recordings until I unplugged it from the mains to reset it, once it plugged back in you will get peace for another while until something else goes wrong. Both PVR have that problem so it not just a problem in one PVR both seem to crash, I think having two PVR the same model is a good fair test.... my brother lives here so we have one each. If your willing to live with the problems until PVR's get better just like everything else that's New it will take time for these problems to get sorted.

Members' Comments onMew45's Review

• Mew45 on 28th Mar 2008

  The above faults also apply to the New Model Daewoo DSD9503T which now has the Freeview play back logo on the front case, some are still on sale without this series record function, watch out your not sold an old one that's cheaper!!!!!
  
  List of New faults this PVR has shown:
  
  Clock time sometimes stops have to unplug from the mains to correct.
  
  EPG can become corrupt and show missing programmes in the listing unplugging for 3 mins corrects the problem, this fault can cause programs to fail to be recorded.

• Mew45 on 18th Jan 2009

  Mew45 again I have found out by switching off auto updates it has cured the problem of the PVR re-booting so the Aerial splitter can now be removed for good this action have been done to both PVR and it has been good for the last 4 months or more.

• Mew45 on 3rd Jul 2009

  Update- from Mew45 it's been ages now since I last wrote about the Daewoo new channals have come and gone on Freeview CNN in Northern Ireland was removed after 3 weeks, I am still using the Daewoo PVR and yes switching off the Update still works great, leaving it on all the time keeps the time correct.
  
  Mew :)