Comments on: Technika STBHDIS2010 Freeview HD Set-top-box

By: Ron Osborn

Ron Osborn — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:24:23 +0000

I bought one of these from the Tesco Direct on Ebay, (REFURBISHED IT SAID, BUT IT LOOKED BRAND NEW TO ME) price £19.99 with free postage. So impreessed, I bought another one. They both work really well. I have plugged one of them into my broadband router and it picked up an IP address OK buit as one of your previous posts says, if you select an interactiove channel, it re-boots but I think that this will be corrected in future updates. If you read the instruction book, it says that the ethernet port is for future services. So I bought both for less than £20 each including postage and both work fine. They were to replace two other freeview boxees that failed to work after the final retune and analogue switch off. Very impressed with these boxes and the HD picture through an HDMI cable is brilliant. I wouldn’t have risked £100 though as someone earlier was saying that they paid.
Make sure that your box is on auto updates and that you leave it in standby when not using it. Cheers Ron

By: Huw Roberts (Caernarfon)

Huw Roberts (Caernarfon) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:32:29 +0000

Bought this item from local Tesco in September 2011. Crashed after a few minutes every time i attempted to watch a HD channel.
Leave the unit in standby for 48 hours. This allows the unit to download the latest software off-air.
Currently this is A3M ST2A-10-0161 (see maual for how to view this on screen)
It has worked well since then. (Software version when bought was A3M-ST2A-10-0133)

By: David at Kippax, Leeds

David at Kippax, Leeds — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:01:24 +0000

Anyone else having a problem accessing the High Definition interactive services on Channels 110, 111 and 112 ? When going to any of these channels the STBDIS2100 does a reboot. In doing so the content of Channel Zero is erased which means the box needs to be left on standby for several hours for Channel Zero to be restored.

By: james

james — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:49:41 +0000

Brillant bought it for £30 at tesco a few problems at first but once it was updated was a great bit of kit and a bargain

By: David at Kippax, Leeds

David at Kippax, Leeds — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:56:48 +0000

Unit arrived today with STBHDIS2010_0133 firmware. I immediately updated it with STBHDIS2010_0161 on a USB stick downloaded from http://www.ch-zero.tv/support Everything works perfectly with no complaints. From a very satisfied owner.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 20 May 2011 03:25:29 +0000

The problems of this box surround the software initially installed. This would delete the HD channels if there was a HD simulcast and you tuned to the SD version..

This has now been fixed by a software update, Note that this is broadcast alongside the Channel Zero data and not by the DTG on the HD mux. This may be a drawback if you receive from a relay station.

The original software version ended 0133′ The problems with HD were fixed by 0151 and new features added with 0161. This last version is available for download to a USB memory stick from the Channel Zero web site. Instructions to update are on the site.

The new version adds an option so it switches automatically to the HD simulcast on BBC channels. Also you can now do a manual single mux tune rather than a full retune which helps in areas where more than one transmitter is available.

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 07 May 2011 17:33:34 +0000

Had this box now for just under a year and it performed well in SD, no HD channels were found when tuned in first time, I decided to re tune a week ago and it found the 4 HD channels and I was impressed with the picture.

Now a week later the picture breaks up all the time on all channels, I have it looped with 2 PVR’s so I decided to plug in the ariel direct and then feed the PVR’s and TV after, my TV shows 90% signal so I think that’s pretty good, however I still get picture breaking up, not being defeated I decided to do a full install again, now I don’t get any HD channels at all.

Now I am defeated, that’s the sum total of my knowledge of these boxes, I was thinking of getting another of these boxes from Tesco as they are now £30 and I paid £100 last year!! I feel robbed and I am contemplating taking it back for a full refund and get a more decent one.

Any ideas on a trouble free HD box?

By: Toin

Toin — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:02:41 +0000

I’ve had this box for 3 days. It is totally useless and not fit for purpose.
I only used it for an hour or so on day one and had no problems but day two saw it re-booting every 10 to 20 minutes or so. Day 3 (today) it could not output the picture and sound. Even repeating the installation did not help, i.e. still no picture or sound. Although the box was happy to report all of the stations that it found when tuning it could not output them. The biggest surprise was when I touched the digi-box: it was very hot to the touch. Not hot enough to burn but not far off. This goes back to the store tomorrow!

By: Media Van

Media Van — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:31:32 +0000

I have had this box for a few months now and have had verry little problems with it with the exeption of the HD chanels disapearing and apearing again every so often…. other than that no probs!

By: RNT

RNT — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:24:53 +0000

I took the box back to Tesco and got a refund – no problem. They also accepted the HDMI cable I had bought to use with the box and refunded that as well.