Thomson DTI6300-16

My Thomson DTI6300 is very noisy. Has been a source of annoyance thro needing to be rebooted frequently and is now kapput....NBG, after about four months. Our local Tesco have 7 waiting to be returned. Won't buy anything else from Thomson.

The Thomson DTI6300-16 is overall good, but has its annnoying traits. Nice touch that its remote can be programmed to operate your TV too! Our TV remote keeps going walkies so nice to have the Thompson one as a backup. Has to have good signal strength. Pause Live TV good feature. Easy to operate. Have to keep reasonable amount of hard drive free or could fail to work (luckily not my experience as I am good librarian). Like the thumb nail playbacks when reviewing library reminds you iuf you have actually seen programme. When fast forward at speeds x32 or x64 (especially latter) often skips right back into earlier part of recording.Don't delete more than 8 recordings in one sitting or likely to freeze especially if they are over 1 hour long.If programmes delayed more than 10 minutes often loses its way. Message facility can be a pain, quickly fills up if there are programme clashes on series recordings, so have to be good at maintenance. Shame there isn't instant delete facility for those.

Easy to programme, good clear menus.

Very noisy, there is a fan or disc running all the time even in standby. Very power hungry!!!

Not bad value for money if you can out up with the noise. Therefore I do recommend the Thomson DTI6300-16