First impressions continued

First impressions continued, Despite the cosmetic damage these PVRs seem to do what is said on the tin so to speak. They do however run very warm. Guess that this is due to desktop hard disk drives being fitted and the chassis being little in height. How the manufacturers have fitted a 3.5" hard disk drive into the case is quite an achievement in fairness to them. Anyway fitting a 2.5" hard disk drive into the case should in theory reduce the operating temperature by a noticeable amount.

Anyway, trying not to deviate back to the cosmetic damage and hard disk drive caddy problem, putting these aside it's pleasing to find that the FVRT100 does indeed record on two tuners concurrently and seemingly flawlessly (although the units have been up and running for approximately 10-12 hours only so, the word 'flawlessly' needs to be used loosely). Not claiming to know a lot about PVRs by any means but have tried and tested two offerings from Medion/Tevion, an 80Gb and 160Gb Twin-Tuner PVR, and was not at all impressed with their functionality. Playback on the Digifusion FVRT100 is smooth, there are no jittery pictures (similar to streaming video on an internet connection that isn't quite quick enough) and no sync problems with the video and audio. Furthermore there is no requirement for the hard disk to take a few seconds to spin up prior to playing back a recording from the library.
The menus seem to be reasonably user friendly as well which is nice. Not sure what the previous firmware was like but over-all I'm liking the FVRT100 despite all of the problems experienced with the retailer who sold the units in the first place. There is no doubt that the 40Gb hard disk drive fills up very quickly and needs to be replaced with a larger capacity drive (preferably a 2.5" notebook PC hard disk drive that runs quiet, consumes little power and does not run hot).