bush dfta3 review

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Average Ratings

Features	4.8/10
Ease of Use	5.8/10
Value for Money	5.8/10
Overall rating	5.1/10

46% Recommended6 out of 13 Reviews

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By Guest. on 1st Jul 2008

Guest.'s Ratings

Time DVB Owned	Over 1 Year
Features	0/10
Ease of Use	1/10
Value for money	1/10
Overall value	1/10
Guest.'s recommendation

Good Points

Easy installation - as far as I know they all have this - so it's not a really noticeable feature any more.

Bad Points

Has updated OS software which has slowed the DFTA3 right down! Game play can be frustrating because pressing cursor keys too quickly makes the channels jump.

The new OSD is buggy having good and bad points: it can search for programmes over the coming week (matching selected programme or from input characters). It has a 'go to day' feature.

Annoyances include the half-hourly segmentation of the day (previously it was easier to scroll through a days TV based on programme length and you could quickly find something more interesting to watch). The channel reorganiser feature doesn't work - I've changed the order of my channels about 5 times - and given up coz they revert to numerical order again.

The fact that I can't order my channels properly kinda makes me want to buy something else, I used to clump all the ITV channels, the CH4 stuff and the CH5 stuff - now I have to plough through about 30 channels to go from ITV2 to ITV2+1!

General Comments

I used to think the Bush DFTA3 was an 8 or more, now it's just annoying and I'm searching for something else - grrrrrr!

Generally an ok box worth a couple of pounds, but there are no buttons on the box - so you REALLY need to take care of the remote.

I *REALLY* wish there was a way of removing this upgrade, because I was happy enough with the old OS. And I can take control of the channel organisation again.

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