Comments on: Sagemcom RTI90-320 and RTI90-500 Freeview + HD Recorder

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:00:43 +0000

I have just bought the 320 andupgraded straight to V3.11. As we don’t yet have HD in our area I can only say SD and upscaling is fine. The guide is split into 3 sections and the area at the top has an inset for the current channel and an info screen for each program as you scroll through. If these features were removed I feel the guide would be much quicker. Because the guide is slow it makes the remote controller appear slow. Apart from that it has done what I have ask for a week now.

By: Glen Turner

Glen Turner — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:29:47 +0000

Vers. 3.1.1 will be available on 26.08.11 until 28.08.11. Lets see what this brings…

By: DPB

DPB — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:55:51 +0000

Hi all, well I was prepared to grumble earlier, so to be fair, I have to say that since auto download of version 3 software the box has been much better. Occasionial missing of sound and some very minor irritations but I now feel the improvements made are taking the box in the right direction and almost there. So much so that I bought my Mum an identical one as her old recorder packed up. However, it had V2.5.3 when installed but will not auto download V3 or accept a manual update on it. I’ll be going up there likely in Sept and try my usb memory stick as I know it worked on mine when I dowmload V2.5.3 on my box and see if it works on my mums.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:31:24 +0000

The 320 model is currently available from Tesco Direct at £180 – with Clubcard points worth £3.60 making it cheaper than all the prices listed.

By: DPB

DPB — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:39:14 +0000

Sagemcom RT190-500. Well, I bought this thing in Dec 2010 and it is getting worse. Just before Easter I lost all the recordings made to watch at Easter after it constantly froze up and then it decided to perform a re-installation. It has now created a folder to record a series – fine, it even changed the recording timer to record the next in the series – super. Just one thing – it forget to record this weeks episode so I have an empty folder. This box is not fit for purpose, the bin would be the best place. I could not recommend this box to anyone.

By: Thicks

Thicks — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:29:29 +0000

MeMe.

A friend of mine just bought one from Amazon.co.uk

Well he loves it – does what it says, but he did notice the same problem with the disk size.

He contacted Sagemcom about the large amount of space been unusable. The Sagemcom Rep told him that the system should only take up about 20 g or so.

So you should have about 300 g left.

He got a replacement from Amazon – and the same thing.

It could be a batch of them with the incorrect hard drives installed or they could be formatted incorrectly.

By: DPB

DPB — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:22:31 +0000

Bought the RT190-500 – I have the latest download which sorted the ‘recording in the past’ issue but it keeps freezing as others have said. Its just frozen several times this morning and now it run installation so I am starting from scratch and have lost all my recording. I would not recommend it to anyone – it is rubbish.

By: MeMe

MeMe — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:33:32 +0000

Just bought one of these for my parents, it came with latest software version (2.5.3) and apart from the Rf pass-through not being fixed yet it works fine.

However it’s a 320GB version but out of the box with nothing recorded it says 147.2GB available can this really be correct?? – I expected some space to be taken up but the best part over 170GB??

I checked the drive part no. and it’s definitley a 320GB drive – also the estimated hours recording seemed low (I think it said 79hrs SD) compared to specs “up to 180hrs”.

Can someone confirm if this is typical?

By: steve

steve — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:40:28 +0000

put me of in byeing one now on ebyi wait till i see a good one to bye

By: mark

mark — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:34:10 +0000

i have had the Sagem RT190 for a few months i am not impressed, just took it back to comet today where they refused to give me a refund and said their engineer will check it over “Hah” good luck with that!!! almost every time i try to switch it on from standby it freezes with Boot on the front panel and has to be switched off at the mains sometimes with several attempts before it eventually comes on, it`s driving me to distraction. i have had a lot of the above comments problems aswell despite having had the latest updates and the most annoying of which is trying to record a series and being told by the box the programme is in the past even though it isn`t on until the next day? so although Sagemcom have put together a pretty unreliable HD Freeview box it seems they have inadvertently mastered Time Travel…….well you have to laugh or you would cry