ADB i-CAN Easy HD 2851T review

The first Freeview HD box to offer BBC iPlayer access

By Jamie Carter
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ADB i-CAN Easy HD 2851T
The BBC iPlayer integration is top notch, allowing you to stream HD content at a push of a button

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Oddly, the i-CAN at first refused to tune-in Freeview HD's hi-def channels, and even though it succeeded at the second time of asking, other normal Freeview channels suddenly lost their stability.

It does suggest that the i-CAN's DVB-T2 tuner isn't as sensitive as it could be (we had no problems with a variety of other Freeview HD boxes in the same testing location).

i-CAN easy hd 2851t iplayer interactive

We also had problems with the BBC interactive service – pressing the red button brought up the menus only in the corner of the screen, and over-large and obscured, at that.

Jamie Carter
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 (opens in new tab) and WhenIsTheNextEclipse.com (opens in new tab) that reflect his obsession with travel gear and solar eclipse travel. He is the author of A Stargazing Program For Beginners (Springer, 2015),