Manhattan T2-R 500 GB Freeview HD Recorder - Black

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Programmes deleted and emptied from the Trash could not be re-recorded and any repeats were indicated as already recorded. It's really strange that you cannot watch a third while recording two. I think Manhattan have made a bad mistake seeing as most other PVR's have this function. The ASU algorithm has been improved so that existing services that are available from multiple transmitters are only replaced when their signal falls below a threshold. When a partial or failed series recording is re-recorded by the T2•R, the original recording will be deleted, unless it is in the process of being viewed. Fixed an issue whereby the volume could not be adjusted on non-HD channels when the ‘Audio Output’ in Picture & Sound Settings was set to ‘Surround’.

The interface is beautiful and most importantly – fast. The “smart” recording features are useful, and navigating your recordings is easy. Picture quality is great, but – as always – depends a lot on your aerial reception. Press the GUIDE button on your remote control. This displays the TV Guide, making it easy to tell when you find the right input. Designed in the UK by Manhattan, the T2-R gives you an exceptional and easy-to-use Freeview HD TV experience. You can pause and rewind live TV, record two channels at the same time, and record an entire series, using its 8-day TV guide and Learning Remote control. Its 500GB of storage holds up to 300 hours of content, smartly organised into categories and series.Once the hard drive gets full, the T2-R will start erasing older shows automatically, to make room for new recordings – but if there are shows you want to keep, you can mark them as protected.

Finding what to watch and record on over 70 channels is effortless with the beautiful 8-day TV Guide. Handy, because Freeview has 95% of the nation's favourite TV to enjoy! Since the T2-R doesn’t support streaming apps, you might wonder what the Ethernet and USB ports are for. For some reason, the “Get Started” manual ignores these ports, but an added leaflet explains that they’re used to update the box’ software. There used to be an over-the-air Freeview updating service called “The Engineering Channel”, but it was shut down this year – so having another way to update the T2-R software is good. I remember getting my first PVR fifteen years ago – a Pace Twin with a 20GB hard drive, rendered useless a few years later by technical changes to the terrestrial broadcast platform. Around the same time the Pace Twin was in retailers, a company called Eurosat was supplying digital satellite receivers under the Manhattan brand to enthusiasts via a network of specialist dealers. During initial setup the Confirm Your PIN step has been updated to make it clearer you need to re-enter your PIN. (1.09) An issue that could cause the box to freeze and become unresponsive during the initialisation of the Hard Drive after boot.The Schedule could continue showing split events as ‘Searching…’ even after they had finished airing. When your T2•R is turned on, the LED on the front is blue. The correct input on your TV is not selected Manhattan menus can now be used when using interactive services with video, like 211 Ketchup TV and 265 Planet Knowledge. Previously you needed to exit the service or change the channel first. (1.09) To get the quality score, we’re looking at a number of factors, but typically we’re studying the brand of the product, the warranty included and basing it on what customers have to say about the quality. When trying to set a recording that clashed with two other recordings, one of which was the second part of a split event, the system would fail to present the Recording Clash prompt and the event could not be booked.

When retune events were signalled by the broadcasters you could be prompted to retune more frequently than necessary.

The previous 1.06 release effectively performed a retune each night (‘Automatic Service Update’) to ensure that the T2-R was tuned to the strongest transmitters. However, this behaviour caused difficulties for some customers due to a phenomenon called tropospheric propagation that can cause distant signals to be temporarily boosted and travel long distances. It happens more often at night and is very prevalent in coastal areas and at times of high pressure. An affected customer would typically find that in the morning their box had retuned to a weaker transmitter and suddenly some channels have poor or no signal.