Sharp TU-T2HR32 review

Sharp produces one of the best Freeview+HD recorders around

Sharp TU-T2HR32
This digital TV recorder has the ability to pause and rewind TV

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The TU-T2HR32 produces excellent hi-def pictures from the key Freeview HD channels; a blast of the European Championships from Barcelona on BBC HD provide plenty of detail, colour and contrast, with recordings identical to the original broadcasts.

As well as testing it on a Full HD 1080p set, we also fed the TU-T2HR32 into a standard HD Ready plasma. Set the box to output at 1080i and both onscreen menus and live HD channels (even though they're broadcast in 1080i) do lose their edge; if your HD Ready TV can accept a 1080p signal, it's the best option.

Switch to SD channels and the TU-T2HR32 does a decent job at upscaling the picture, though a sheen of dotty picture noise is faintly evident. Edges remain taught though, and both colour and contrast remain intact.

Jamie Carter

Jamie is a freelance tech, travel and space journalist based in the UK. He’s been writing regularly for Techradar since it was launched in 2008 and also writes regularly for Forbes, The Telegraph, the South China Morning Post, Sky & Telescope and the Sky At Night magazine as well as other Future titles T3, Digital Camera World, All About Space and Space.com. He also edits two of his own websites, TravGear.com and WhenIsTheNextEclipse.com that reflect his obsession with travel gear and solar eclipse travel. He is the author of A Stargazing Program For Beginners (Springer, 2015),