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First Freeview HD box brings high definition to the masses
After months shrouded in secrecy, the UK's Freesat service has hit the ground running. Unlike the bandwidth-limited Freeview service, this free-to-view satellite platform has room to spare. And it arrives in UK high streets promising not only standard digital TV services, but also cutting-edge technologies such as HD and IPTV. In short, fellow telly-addicts, Freesat is a broadcast technology with legs.
Having just announced that it's to produce the first Freeview Playback-branded LCD TVs, it's no surprise that Humax also makes excellent standalone boxes, of which the 9200TB is a fine example.
Replacing the excellent PVR9200T is this model - the PVR9200TB - which is essentially the same PVR in black with a Freeview Playback badge slapped on the front. First impressions are misleading, as the PVR9200TB is nothing special looks-wise
For those hungering for high definition, Sky may seem to be the obvious option. But that's the great thing about options, there's always more than one of them. Well, Humax's HDCI-2000 is another
The Humax drab, the silver styling is uninspired and functional and it's fairly chunky. The connections lineup, meanwhile, includes two Scart outputs (only one supports RGB) and an optical digital audio output
Although Humax's previous digital TV PVR, the PVR8000T, was beset with teething troubles, its latest model has them all smoothed out. The PVR9200T is packed with enough extra features to square up to the Sky + box
It's been over a year since the Humax PVR-9200T first hit our testbench, but it's still regarded as the best personal video recorder available. Instead of launching a replacement, Humax has simply updated its award-winning PVR
With twin tuners and a whopping 160GB hard disk capable of storing 80 hours of TV, the Humax Duovisio 9200T has one of the most impressive feature sets of any PVR.
A price of £220 is something of a bargain for a twin-tuner PVR with a160GB hard disc and a Top-Up TV-friendly tuner and, overall, the 9200T lives up to its promise
Although Humax recently branched out into LCD TVs and beat many bigger-brand competitors to the punch by including a PVR in an HD Ready screen, it's the pure PVR field that the brand is probably better known
Korea-based Humax has a strong presence in the UK and assembles one of the best Freeview boxes,the F2-FOX-T, in its Northern Ireland factory. It's had a rockier ride with hard disk-based personal video recorders