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Pace Twin Tuner Digital Hard Drive
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Average Rating: 3 out of 5
No. of Reviews: 3
RRP: £199
Year: 2004

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Description: Freeview tuner with recording capability

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Mark Vaughan

Posted: 23/02/05

'An expensive freeview box but recording is easy'

Strengths:
Two tuners-can chase recordings.
Digital radio good quality

Weaknesses:
Prone to crashing, small hard drive (8 hours)

Overall:
I'm glad I got it even though it does have me pulling my hair out.

Performance		60%
Build		40%
Value		60%

Overall Rating

53%

Tony Hardwick

Posted: 25/02/05

'GREAT IDEA.EXCELLENT TUNER. GREMLINS COME FREE!'

Strengths:
twin tuner. easy to programme.
good clear off-air picture. reasonable sound. good connectivity.
smart case. upgradable via downloads.

Weaknesses:
small hard drive(10hrs.video, longer
for audio only).Mine came riddled with infuriating bugs.(now cleared up after returning unit to Pace)

Overall:
My Pace Twin came from John Lewis with 2 year guarantee for £198.
the manual was easy to understand and connecting up was a doddle.
Then the trouble started; from day one the unit kept telling me that some stations had 'NO SIGNAL' despite the fact that I had installed
a wide band top-of-the-range digital aerial with CT100 downlead and that
the analogue stations directly into my TV were perfect. ITV1 would go into freeze frame mode consistantly,so I would have to switch over to analogue to continue watching the programme. The rest of the problems are too numerous to list here but they have since been sorted by Pace. On the better side, I find the twin tuner a boon, archiving to tape is excellent and the EPG and programming are easy and swift to use. Remote is well laid out and gets instant response. Jazz FM is on channel 88 (not available on DAB radio, only as Smooth FM.) Twin scarts and digital/analogue audio outputs enable sound to be put through Hi-Fi. Hard drive is upgradable but wait until your guarantee runs out. Would I buy another one? Yes, despite the initial bugs, I still think this is the best unit of it's kind on the market and it is now available for much less than I paid for it.

Performance		60%
Build		60%
Value		60%

Overall Rating

60%

Nick Henning

Posted: 28/02/05

'IT'S VERY VERY BUGGY'

Strengths:
Great falicities, great tuner, good picture.

Weaknesses:
Small harddrive. Firmware is VERY bug ridden - only get one if you can live with the fact that it WILL crash eventually! Digital text is a bit slow.

Overall:
I am a long time user of the Pace twin. Got it when thay had been out for a few months. The original firmware was BAD, and the picture quality was poor. Pace have since released another three firmware releases (I think), which I downloaded over the air. Most of the problems have been ironed out but there are one or two infuriating bugs which mean that the unit has to be turned off at the mains before it will work properly again! (I kid you not) It can also really screw up data on the harddrive and render your recordings unplayable. When it's in 'stupid mode' it does useful things like making zero-length recordings, which are unplayable.
NOTE : this is not just my unit - it's a common set of problems - read the Digital Spy forums for a lot more information.
I have upgraded my harddrive to a 60Gb unit and this makes the Twin more usable (gives around 31 hours recording time) and it's easy to do. Get a Fujitsu MHS series drive if you can - they are Very quiet.
If you get one, make sure that you have the latest Firmware (september 04, I think) but don't expect it to work perfectly all of the time!
To be honest, Pace really should have sorted the problems out by now!
Other than that, it's so useful that I wouldn't be without it :-)

Performance		40%
Build		60%
Value		40%

Overall Rating

47%

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