Saorview PVR Box has arrived.

Live stock says 30 units in Tallaght too

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

WALKER SAORVIEW 500GB TWIN TUNER BOX

Model : WP6500TTR
Specifications
Saorview Approved Recorder
Record Up To 320hrs Of Tv
Simple And Quick Installation
8 Day Saorview Tv Guide
Twin Tuner - Watch One Channel
While Recording Another
Or Record 2 Programs At Same Time
High Definition Picture
Hdmi Digital Av Connection
Live Pause And Series Record
500gb Recorder
Aertel Mheg5 Teletext
Rte Dab Radio Stations (x10)
Scart Connection.remote Control
Digital Audio Output
Aerial Required
Series Link Available Feb 2013

It is way too overpriced and expensive methinks. I presume that it has the T2 Tuners in it? I suppose a lot of people will buy these instead of the Humax Freeview HD PVR?

ninja900 wrote: »

Overpriced?
Just priced a Humax HDR-Fox T2 500GB on Amazon, £210. That box has been on the market for quite a while, that's as cheap as it's going to get and the Walker is cheaper than that at its launch price.

As I have posted before Maplins have a very good price of €249 for the Humax HDR-Fox T2 which is cheaper than any of the UK sites.I bought one from the UK over a year ago and it cost me £279 including delivery and was then the cheapest available at the time they were over €400 in Ireland. I rate the Humax as one of the best available and have tried the Philips and the Sony which had less features.

The Cush wrote: »

According to Tony it has a T2 tuner but it wasn't required for certification.

Thats the info i was given at the time. Has anyone tried out the T2 yet ?

Can the walker PVR be used for both Saorview and Freesat? Is it the only Saorview approved box at the moment?

Cheers

Anyone actually got their hands on one of these yet?
I'd be interested to find out of series link is working on them - especially with the note on the powercity site saying Feb 2013...

The Cush wrote: »

Saorview series link will work on them when it starts in Feb.

I suppose what I was really getting at is - we know the Humax Freeview T2 is currently supporting series link (only on select programs on RTE+1) but will it work in the exact same way as the Walker box when series link in switched on?

i.e. are we at a point yet where we can say if the Walker box is the only one that will correctly and fully support series link? Or if we want the feature we can have a choice of box?

I think the answer for the moment is no... we're not quite there yet

[was asking as there was a suggestion somewhere else in this forum that the Humax would not work and that the series link info would only be available to the Walker box]

The Cush wrote: »

It's probably safe to assume the Humax will work OK with the Saorview series link data as it has with the test data transmitted on RTÉjr/RTÉ1+1.

Hope so! The Panasonic T2 PVR model DMR-HW100 works well with the test data (and presumably also later models). Also it is possible to re-number the channels from the 800s to 1,2,3 etc on the panny pvr. If serial link works when fully implemented the only minor issue on the Panny are the lack of old style teletext on TV3/TG4 and no full programme descriptions.

zg3409 wrote: »

Powercity Staff are authorised to give a discount on this. If you ask the price is €215 even. They need to ring the head office as the discount is not up on the system yet.

I will try to do a review in the next week. I hope to test it in a border area if possible. I assume series link on the Irish channels will only be on RTE1+1/RTEJnr until February.

It comes with a HDMI, but no Scart lead, even though it has SCART.

Would others like to suggest tests I should do and anything else you would like to know?

Hi zg3409,
I'm in a boarder area myself and would be interested to know if this box can record from both Saorview & Freeview at the same time. Also if it was left in Standby would scheduled recordings still record. The reason I ask this is, I have a samsung tv which is both Saorview & Freeview HD approved and when an external hard drive is connected it acts like a PVR, even the series link works on the freeview side. However I must tune to an Irish channel to load the Irish EPG & an english channel to load the freeview epg after which once I hit the EPG button it shows the EPG info for both sets of channels. If though I had something series linked on BBC 1 and I switch the TV to standby and the last channel watched was a Saorview one, it will fail to record. But if the last channel watched was a Freeview channel it will record no problem. So I guess I'm asking that from standby will the box record a schedueld recording(from either Saorview or Freeview) regardless of what channel was previously been watched.

Also does the T2 tuner work as the TV I mentioned above disables the T2 tuner when the TV is set up as "Ireland" in the country settings, meaning it won't tune in the Freeview HD channels. It's not a huge problem as I can choose "UK" in the country settings menu and this will allow me to tune in the Freeview HD channels. It does mean I have to reorder them so the Saorview ones aren't in the 800's. Are you able to reorder the channels on the Walker PVR?

Hope I have made myself clear with the above and looking forward to reading your review.

Many Thanks,
Doney84

In the old days wrote: »

Hope so! The Panasonic T2 PVR model DMR-HW100 works well with the test data (and presumably also later models). Also it is possible to re-number the channels from the 800s to 1,2,3 etc on the panny pvr. If serial link works when fully implemented the only minor issue on the Panny are the lack of old style teletext on TV3/TG4 and no full programme descriptions.

Also I don't think this Panasonic PVR and the rest of its 2012 range has any scart connection, so feeding signal into a DVD recorder or DVD/HDD Recorder won't be possible if one wanted to archive to DVD.

Back of Humax HDR-Fox T2 with phono scart and Ethernet sockets

http://www.humaxdigital.com/uk/products/product_stb_terrestrial_hdrfoxt2.aspx