Metronic Setanta

50% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

user friendly

no user volume control

easy to set up

unaware of 14.99 connection fee and few signal problems to start with

Looks good, nice design

Kept dropping certain digital channels which worked perfectly well on to other devices, with built in digital decoders, when using the same signal source.

Setanta works fine

When EPG is brought up, the sound of the current channel disappears. Also, it is not possible to compare many channels all at once

Easy to set-up

When it works you get a very good picture

It jams a lot and we loose sound and picture sometimes and it overheats very quickly

cheap way to get setanta

I have a dvd recorder with build in freeview which works perfectly for all freeview channels. Got this box for accesing setanta on freeview, intermitantly it wont pick up certain channels and freezes a lot. Both devices are through the same aerial and...

small, neat, two SCART sockets

Locks up, looses channels, gets hot

Instant access to channels - as soon as you turn on the machine channels are ready to watch. Great size - not much bigger than a book

Struggles to pick up ITV and Channel 4 related channels Flimsy remote control

sleak looking easy to use and a very simple self set up menu