O.K. , You've sourced your FVRT100, so, what's in the box?.

O.K. , You've sourced your FVRT100, so, what's in the box?.

Upon receipt of your Digifusion FVRT100 Twin-Tuner PVR, unlike what I'd normally do, not checking items immediately upon receipt you might want to open the box and make sure that everything that's meant to be in there is as it should be. Here's what you should find:

1 x Digifusion FVRT100 Twin-Tuner DVB-T Receiver (Size (H)4.7 cm (W)36 cm (D)24.2 cm)
1 x External Power Supply Unit - Preferably the 5A variety rather than 3A as these are known to be the cause of 'hold' problems from what I've gathered
1 x Remote Control
1 x Users Guide

One item that isn't supplied is a SCART lead however these are widely available from electrical stores such as Comet, Argos an so on. Providing all of these items have been supplied by the company that you've sourced your unit from the PVR is ready to be hooked up to your TV.

As a recommendation I'd say that it's probably a good idea to soak-test your PVR prior to pulling it apart and replacing the hard disk drive with a larger one, flashing firmware, adding a USB/IDE hard disk drive adapter and so on.. otherwise your hard efforts will have gone to waste.

Please visit this blog again as I'm planning on posting back here once the FVRT100 that I've bought from Microdirect has been soak-tested or otherwise run-in so to speak. Knowing my luck there are faults on the unit. Getting one through that wasn't badly damaged was a problem in itself and I've lost money in return postage but that's another story. Hopefully the experiences with customer services results in a reliable working unit.