August DVB415 HD Freeview Set Top Box

I bought this product to replace an old Freeview recorder box which had broken down. Since I never recorded anything on that box anyway ( it was situated in my home office ) I opted to get a normal Freeview box instead of spending £100 - £200 on a recorder box. If all you want is a box that will give you Freeview channels then I would highly recommend this. It is small ( 140mm x 90mm ) but don't let that put you off. It does everything you would want and actually looks very nice and classy. It was extremely easy to set up and comes with an hdmi lead in the box. If your tv doesn't have and hdmi socket then you can connect up by scart lead as this box also has a scart socket too ( a scart lead is not provided so just use your old one ). Plug your aerial in ( I actually have an indoor one and it works fine ) and switch on and the onscreen instructions are very simple to follow and basically you press the ok button on the remote to confirm your country and area and ok to scan and it does the rest and finds all your available channels . That's it..all done ! An important thing to note is that if you want to be able to pause/rewind live tv you must insert a usb stick into the usb port at the front of the box. I bought a sandisk 8gb usb 3.0 stick off amazon for £5.49 and it works perfectly ( pause/rewind live tv will NOT work without this ) . One other thing...if you do have a usb stick inserted this box WILL record stuff onto it that you can watch at a later time either on the tv or some other medium like your pc. You have to go into the media settings in the box menu and it gives you the option of how many gb you want as capacity up to 4gb. I am not interested in recording on the box so I haven't tried it but even though I have an 8gb stick plugged in the box capacity is a max of 4gb so that may be of interest to some people. For pause/rewind Live TV all you have to do is plug the stick in and it recognizes that you have one in and you can use this function. Picture quality is very good too and the remote easy to use. Also when you put it in standby it shows you the time and when you switch it on it is more or less instant when you get your picture. All in all very highly recommended !

Given that I had a USB DVB-T/T2 tuner stick made by August and very pleased with it, I was extremely disappointed with this DVB415! My aerial signal has no trouble with any TV in the house, and you can see the main transmitter at the end of my road. The signal was around 90% with 95% quality. This unit just kept breaking up on the HD channels. It wasn't the usual type of break up like when you receive a poor signal, it was more juddery with green flashes and freezed the picture. On recordings, whilst the unit recorded, on playback it played a few seconds and then just 'paused' the playback. The EPG would randomly display a few days ahead, but list odd hours from each. It would then clear itself and provide NOW/NEXT only on SD channels but HD channels had the whole day's worth of listings. The unit did not like a USB3 256GB stick, and could not format a USB2 64GB stick, so I had to format that to NTFS in a computer first and then the box could format it. (Not cheap slow USB sticks) The unit supplied WAS new and didn't look in any way a customer return. I could have a faulty unit, but seeing as other people also experienced it on here indicates it is not. Feel let down as my other August Intl product is very good. I wasn't bothered about Freeview's Red Button services or Digital Text not being available; the later also meaning that the Radio Stations have a generic picture rather than programme details as these use MHEG digital text. Sent the box back as not good for anything. It's also not a Freeview box as such, as its not licensed by Freeview, its a generic digital TV box that can receive Freeview broadcasts. This is good in one way, because by not being licensed by Freeview means that the recordings are not encrypted and can be played back in Windows Media Player. With Freeview licensing, this would not be possible. It wasn't possible anyway, because of the issues I found on my box, massively annoying.

Arrived very quickly. Having read the reviews it was just what I expected. Wanted it especially to be able to record to USB and watch / edit on PC. Worked fine. 16gb USB stick with a 2 hour recording used 23% of the memory capacity suggesting 3 or 4 films on 16 gb. (bigger sticks are available). Plugged into my PC and played straight away in Nero showtime - my preferred video player. Also loaded into the Nero editing programme with no problem and burned the film to a DVD for keeping. Plus points: Incredible value. It does more than recorders costing £200 plus will do Negative points: The channel menu *is* quirky and takes a bit of getting used to, and the menus generally are not 'intuitive' (at least to my brain), but you can set your own 'favourites' list so that should sort the channel listing out. Adding the film name to the data recorded automatically (date time and channel) means you have to refer to a grid / table in the instruction book that uses the same system as a mobile phone to input the text using numbers on the handset is messy and fiddly. Thought there was going to be a problem when it wouldn't loop the aerial connection through when in standby when first connected, but that was fixed by changing a setting in the menus which rectified it easily. Overall: Very impressed with the picture quality (We still have Standard Definition). Am about to buy another box so we can record 2 channels at once if we need to, and watch a third on the DVD recorder. Glad we got it.

Super Preis, schön klein, super Menü, schnelle Installation, gute Verarbeitung, bin begeistert von diesem kleinen Gerät, einfach toll, würde ich immer wieder kaufen.

bien agreable et facile de fonctionnement. COMPRENDS TOUTES LES FONCTIONS MODERNES

Hola Voy a comentar mi experiencia con el August DVB 415. Lo utilizo fundamentalmente como grabador. Lo tengo conectado a la toma de antena de la pared con un cable de 5 m y a la TV a través del RF Out. La imagen es bastante buena y no pixela aunque el TDT esté grabando o en standby. Los menús son claros, en castellano y se manejan con facilidad. Rápidamente te haces con él. Los canales se ordenan y editan con facilidad. La programación de grabaciones es sencilla y clara y permite modificar un evento ya existente. En otros TDT's, si te confundes tienes que borrar la entrada y crearla de nuevo :-( Cuando lo apagas no se borran los eventos programados y automáticamente se enciende y apaga cuando toca. Aunque parece inherente a un grabador, no es así. Otros TDT's de renombre, no quiero citar marcas, has de tenerlos encendidos para que ejecuten la programación e incluso se borra ésta cuando los apagas. Lo tengo conectado a un HD USB 2,5" de 2 TB formateado en NTFS y reproduce y graba en él sin dificultades. El TDT se enciende un minuto antes de la hora programada, sintoniza el canal en unos 20 segundos y tarda unos 30 segundos en reconocer un HD NTFS de 1TB y 50" uno de 2TB. No creo que acepte grabar en un HD mayor porque cuando ejecutara el evento programado no habría reconocido todavía al HD, pero no lo he probado. He hecho varias preguntas en este foro y Daffodil ES me ha contestado en menos de 24 horas (Gracias Daffodil). Para mí la atención al usuario es muy importante y es uno de los factores que me decantaron por este TDT. La web del fabricante es clara, en castellano, tiene soporte técnico y página de descarga de manuales y firmware. Graba en ficheros de 1 GB de 30 minutos. Cuando haces grabaciones largas es laborioso editar tantos ficheros. No es grave, pero da trabajo innecesario. Si se quiere mantener la compatibilidad con FAT32 podrían hacerse de 2 ó 4 GB. El manual que viene en la caja no es muy legible ni manejable y los dibujos son muy pequeños y no se ven. Pero en la web del fabricante hay una versión en pdf, con los mismos contenidos y dibujos más detallados y en colores. Puedes editarlo y hacerte el manual a tu gusto. En resumen, altamente recomendable. Uno de los mejores receptores-grabadores TDT del mercado y por un precio similar al de otros de muy inferiores prestaciones. En cuanto al servicio de Amazon, muy bueno: transporte rápido, bien empaquetado, avisos por email del estado del proceso de envío, etc.

Très facile à installer. Conforme à mes attentes.

En mi opinión es un buen sintonizador TDT, aunque tiene algunas pegas: - El mando a distancia es pequeño, parece de juguete. A las personas mayores les cuesta ver bien los botones del mando. - Cuando se va la luz, al volver a venir, el sintonizador se pone en modo de apagado. La mayoría de los tdt se encienden. Esto puede ser bueno o malo según los casos. Yo tengo el TV y el TDT enchufados a un enchufe con mando y lo que me interesaba es que al encenderlos automáticamente se pusieran a funcionar los dos la TV y el Tdt. En este caso, tengo que encender el tdt después con su mando. - El reproductor multimedia es muy lento. Tarda en empezar a reproducir la película grabada, aunque una vez que empieza a reproducirla va muy bien. - Si lo conectas por euroconector hay que poner el modo de salida de video en RGB, ya que si lo dejas en el modo de video CVBS la imagen se relentiza. Aunque si lo conectas por HDMI reproduce la imagen muy bien en el formato CVBS. - Cuando vas a ordenar los canales, resulta que de fábrica viene en el menú marcada una opción de ordenar de forma lógica. Desmarca esta opción para poder ordenar los canales. - MANDO UNIVERSAL USB PROGRAMABLE. Al que le interese he copiado los códigos del mando para poder programar este mando universal con el ordenador. Si me solicitáis el archivo os lo mando ([email protected]). El mando lo he comprado en “ALIESPRESS” por 7 €. En la búsqueda he puesto “mando tv programable usb” Dejo foto del mando. Espero que os sirvan mis comentarios a la hora de elegirlo o hacerlo funcionar. Saludos.