Dick Smith GH5944

I bought this unit to replace a Jaycar unit that would not record a program that straddled midnight (firmware bug, since fixed I'm told). It does everything I want - record & play back, and tunes in ABC-Jazz :-) Two minor gripes: 1) Several seconds are...

nsure the STBs are well ventilated as heat cycling long term can accelerate failure. The time shift is a great function although the operation is a bit quirky till one gets used to its various modes; even so it's relatively friendly, unlike the...

re is no colour to match what's on screen and you have to take a chance and experiment to find the right button. Worst of all though, is that once the USB gets sort of full, I found that movies I had saved on the USB started having the ends removed, at...

the recording part of this set top box is great apart from you cant record with out the ads but I keep losing channels like ten ,one ,11 and abc3 and it is impossible to find the software upgrade anywhere

mputer, but if the programme is first renamed through the STB all is well. I put this down to the symbol ? at the end of 'Who do you think you are?'. Just thought you might like to know. Anastomosis

Further to my enthusiastic review twelve months ago of this set top box, I have to report that mine has recently become unable to tune to channel 44 (TVS) which it reports on-screen as "invalid signal". Since the digital TV set to which it is attached...

Amazing features for this price. I needed NTSC output for American TV which is very difficult to find on other STB manufacturers. This box does it all and is quite user friendly. Program guide design is better than many TV's I've seen recently. Setup...

Have only bought this STB to get TV reception. It does what it should do. It was easy to set up and the picture is excellent. I'm not using it for recording programs, so I cannot provide feedback on that aspect. Includes everything you need, including...