GT-005F Digital Freeview HD Set Top Box Digibox Plus USB Recorder

Great item. Easy to install. Clear picture. Nice small box. Happy with my purchase.

Great value and works. Takes some effort to get it working. Picture and sound great and easy to connect. Menus not easy to navigate.

What a fab piece of kit. After cancelling my virgin media due to contract almost finished and moving house, I spent the week with no wi-fi no tv and no music… I decided to try out Freeview. After receiving it I honestly thought that a 68 year old widow wouldn’t be able to set this up .. How wrong was I within 15 minutes i was sat with a coffee watching morning tv.

First off, let me state that for £27.99 I certainly was not expecting miracles, or bells and whistles. Having said that...Oh boy. Good points: Easy to set up, great picture, a 3.2 128Gig USB, works just fine, as does a 3.0 and a 2.0, (a 3.2 has the best and fastest download speed) not tried a Harddrive yet and probably wont, reasons given later. Recording is easy to set up and the EPG Interface is great. Everything else, you would really expect it to do, even if some of it badly. Ok, now the bad points: The lead - You only get a meter, so in my case it would not reach anything and had to attach another extension lead to the extension lead, to make it reach where I wanted to put it, which was a meter and a half from the sockets. No Internet connection, which I should have checked first, but to be honest, it never occurred to me that in 2025, it would not have one, as 99% of set top boxes have it now, either through lead, or Wi-Fi. It is not a problem for me, as I can get the stations that are on the internet through my TV, or another set top box I have connected. But for those of you that cannot do that, buyer beware. The Remote...Oh dear, the infernal remote... VERY unresponsive, unless like me, you are using it in the bedroom, where I have a stereo, a light, with a fan attached to it, another set-top box, surround sound speakers, a soundbar and an amplifier/mixer, then it works great! I got home from work, set up the box and tested it out, the problem with that was, I tried it at 2.30am, so my neighbours loved me, I live in a flat. Depending on which buttons you press on the remote, to use the Gumtek set top box, is which other device starts working. Anything else, that needs a remote, is in danger. It will make the light and the fan, that I have, come on, change the light settings and fan speed. It will also turn the stereo on and adjust the volume...not good at 2.30am in the morning, it will turn speakers on/off, soundbar on/off, mixer on/off, even the TV on/off and the other set-top-box I have (a different brand) on/off, it will also turn off whatever I was recording on the other box, which is the most annoying part of all. The only thing the damn remote will NOT work properly with, unless you are pointing the remote directly at it and give it a couple of presses to engage it, is the Gumtek set top-box. So I had a choice, turn off everything else and just have the Gumtek working, which was no good as I then had no sound, or unplug the Gumtek, go on Amazon and buy another, more expensive and hopefully workable one and keep the Gumtek as a spare, so it is now a spare, because sending things back on Amazon, although is not a problem from that aspect, sending return items, where I live and considering I do not drive, is a pain in the butt. So, do the good points outweigh the bad? Not on your nelly. So, you could have the same problems as me, if you buy this set top box....don't say I did not warn you.

It's cheap, it works but you get what you pay for. Remote cheap plastic and doesn't always work and buttons get stuck. Remote does have a guide but it's under the button EPG . TV picture quality not brilliant but I live in the east midlands but other people said the picture quality wasn't good too . I bought it because I didn't have enough money for a decent one so I'm saving up for a better quality Freeview box. If you was like me it will do for a while, I won't be giving it away when I get a quality Freeview box, it's going to tip

This was an excellent buy, really easy to set up and loads of freeview channels now available with great reception,

Very good quality

Product rather lightweight , small and not what I expected .Too complicated to make and playback recordings