Press the “Recordings” button on your remote, and you instantly get into your very own VOD library of all the programmes, series and movies you’ve recorded (and it even knows to categorise them like that).

Turning the machine on (blue light) instantly brought back the picture, I then decided the machine probably must have to be left on. On my Samsung Smart TV, when you want to check what’s on via the Electronic Programme Guide, for example, you have to wait a couple of seconds for the interface to load up, then moving around it is painfully slow, and every button press brings with it another wait.I appreciate the use of the left and right buttons to skip a set number of seconds (configurable) while playing a recording.

If you can’t connect your T4•R to your router using an Ethernet cable, the update can be installed using USB instead. An excellent Freeview recording box with all the bells and whistles you could ask for (smart HD switching and recording, hard drive space management, a learning remote) – except for streaming apps. If the Manhattan manages to just record what I ask it to, reliably, for the length of it's two year warranty I'll be delighted. The item may be missing the original packaging or protective wrapping, or may be in the original packaging but not sealed.

Like the sky box it records, series links, pauses live tv and has access to 15 HD channels and loads of other channels. Then on a different recording, there will be intermittent freezing of the picture (the sound is usually unaffected). Finding what to watch and record on over 80 channels is effortless with the beautiful 8-day TV Guide. The process to update the software is far harder than it should be I feel, the whole dragging machines and cables to meet in the middle process is not something I wanted to do regularly or even again - and if even going to the palarva I went to is not possible in your home, I do not know how you would go on. The guide can be quickly navigated by entering the channel of interest with the number buttons and navigated by day using the fast forward buttons.