Many people seem to have forgotten about the upcoming analogue terrestrial TV switch off,but with several hundred homes in Wales already living our digital-only future, you'd better start thinking of a cost-effective way of getting a Freeview tuner.

We can't think of many better ways of doing this than having one built into a DVD player. If your TV's built-in tuner breaks,what do you do? And if it's a standalone product, then it's just one more box to accommodate.

With Mustek's DVB-T202, all you need to do is connect it up to your TV by a single Scart and you've got both movie playback and digital TV from a single unit,while connecting via its RF output or second Scart can send a signal to any recording devices.

The unit itself is a full-sized DVD player, finished in the standard silver, with a mirrored disc-drawer slap bang in the centre.The major transport and control buttons are all down the bottom right hand lip of the player. They look pretty simple,but you need to make sure that you've switched between the tuner and player sections of the DVB-T202 before trying to access the disc drawer, otherwise you enter the tuner's set up menu! Build quality is passable at this price,but not exceptional.

The selection of connections around the back is achingly average.There's a brace of Scarts, one of which is RGB capable and which also, rather oddly, offers some form of pseudo progressive scan, even though there's no component sockets. There's also an RF input on the back of the player and this can either be connected to your own aerial, or, if you don't have one, Mustek has supplied a small one in the box.While it may not be good enough to get a signal in an area that has a problem with reception, it managed to lock on to all the available channels in our relatively well-served location.

Ease of use

Getting set up is quick and easy, and with a couple of wires connected and a few buttons pressed you find yourself watching a DVD or flicking through the Freeview channels.The menu system is fairly basic,but looks well thought out and labels relatively complex procedures in a simple to understand manner.