Manhattan T2-R 500 GB Freeview HD Recorder - Black

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Connect by HDMI and experience stunning HD with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound. The T2-R even upscales SD channels for enhanced viewing. to those with sets they really should have replaced by now). Connected and powered up, you'll find Manhattan's onscreen tuning wizard. As with other Freeview kit, your location has to be entered so the correct channels are listed in the EPG and duplicates removed. When your T2•R is turned on, the LED on the front is blue. The correct input on your TV is not selected FULL TV FUNCTIONALITY - The DVB400 has an EPG interface showing the next week of digital programs across all channels. Plan your viewing, schedule recordings and see what’s on now all in one place. Add Subtitles to TV and access content your way

Record, pause and rewind over 85 TV channels: the T3•R 500GB records up to 300 hours and the T3•R 1TB a massive 600 hours The instruction text in the Channels Editor (e.g. used for editing Favourites) could incorrectly say ‘select channel’ when it should say ‘deselect channel’ and vice versa. When RF Loop Through in Standby was enabled in the System section of Settings, disturbances in the output could be observed for a few minutes after entering standby. Ensure your aerial is connected to your T2•R and an HDMI or AV cable is connected from your T1 to your TV. When retune events were signalled by the broadcasters you could be prompted to retune more frequently than necessary.Moved ‘Edit Protected Channels’ and ‘Show/Hide Protected Channels’ into their own ‘Protected Channels’ sub-menu of the Channels menu. The neatness, clarity and responsiveness of the T2-R's everyday user interface is worth praising. It's driven by a decent handset that can also operate many TVs. The ASU algorithm has been improved so that existing services that are available from multiple transmitters are only replaced when their signal falls below a threshold. Designed in the UK by Manhattan, the T2-R gives you an exceptional and easy-to-use Freeview HD TV experience. You can pause and rewind live TV, record two channels at the same time, and record an entire series, using its 8-day TV guide and Learning Remote control. Its 500GB of storage holds up to 300 hours of content, smartly organised into categories and series.

After discussion with Arqiva (who manage the UK’s broadcast infrastructure), we implemented improved behaviour on our latest T3-R model. This behaviour has now replaced the Automatic Service Update on the T2-R: Your T2•R will update automatically overnight whilst in standby, as long as you haven't disabled automatic updates in the System Settings menu Minimum broadband speed of 2Mbps required for catch up and on demand services. Watching on demand and catch up programmes will count towards any monthly broadband data allowance. 7-day catch up for selected channels.

The specification here is basic but well implemented, and Manhattan's new styling is a nice improvement on its boxy designs of old. And the T2-R nicely whets the appetite for the company's incoming T3-R, which adds streaming bells and whistles. Connect to an AV Receiver or external sound system for Dolby Digital surround sound (when supported)

HD channels are crisp and vibrant. The TR-R excavated detail from Bodyguard's murkier scenes while visually complex props like computer displays were well-rendered. In comparison, standard-def channels are soft and pallid. With SD or HD, motion is smooth with no untoward judder provided the source material is up to it. HDMI: Connect to an HDTV or AV Receiver for HD and Dolby Digital Plus surround sound (when supported) Record 2 programmes at once. Need to record more? The T2-R will suggest alternative broadcasts to make it workThe TV Guide now indicates in the info area when a programme is running late, starting late or has started early. When trying to set a recording that clashed with two other recordings, one of which was the second part of a split event, the system would fail to present the Recording Clash prompt and the event could not be booked.

The Automatic Service Update (ASU) previously took place every time the T2-R entered standby. It now takes place only once overnight. That one needs to have a female on one end and a male TV plug on the other. Or an aerial cable 'joiner'/barrel/double-ender with a male to male cable. Finding what to watch and record on over 85 channels is simple with the easy-to-use 8-day TV guide. When a partial or failed series recording is re-recorded by the T2•R, the original recording will be deleted, unless it is in the process of being viewed. An issue that could stop programmes being set to record that are on now on a service that does not broadcast 24/7 (e.g. BBC FOUR). The recording could only be scheduled after changing to a service on the same multiplex.

It was not possible to set an instant recording on a channel immediately after using an MHEG red button service on that channel. It was still possible to record from the Channel Banner or TV Guide. The T2•R can also be manually set to a resolution in the Picture & Sound section of the Settings menu. This could cause an issue if you set a resolution (e.g. 1080p), then move the T2•R to another TV that doesn't support that resolution. The file system has been updated to make it resilient to corruption caused by unexpected interruptions (e.g. power loss) during asynchronous data transfer.