Nokia Mediamaster DVB 9850 T

I acquired this from a friend. Thought I would have to upgrade the arial, no need. Plugged it in and 10 minutes later it was all tuned up (took more time to work out the cabling!). I have not used the conventional analogue receiver in my television since I got the box. I am interested that there are modem, serial and expansion ports on the box so what is down the line could be interesting.

Before doing a Factory reset on the Nokia first try pressing the reset button under the flap.

If that doesnt work try;

FACTORT RESET

1. Turn box on using remote control

2. Turn it off using remote but

3. As green channel L.E.D. dims to --- press left and right navigation buttons simultaneously

4 'Re' should be displayed on L.E.D.

5. Now press the reset button to finalise factory reset

6. Box is now off (standby)

7. Turn on using remote control

8. Menu should appear on TV - it may run some updates.

9. Then choose 'getting started'

10. 'store channels'

I bought this Nokia Mediamaster DVB 9850 T unit at Comet for £79.95. From getting home to watching BBC4 on it was 10 minutes tops - very easy to set up. Be very wary of the retailers trying to sell you aerial upgrades based on what the signal strength prediction website http://www.dtg.org.uk/retailer/ says, my 25 year old external aerial pointing at the Mendip transmitter from Cardiff gets a very good signal strength.

The only downer is the text services, which sometimes get in such a knot that the reset button is required (this is fairly painless though). I guess that as mine is an OnDigital box being sold by the liquidators trying to raise some revenue, the software isn't going to be updated.

Still as a low-cost, low-risk way getting into the still-evolving Digital TV world I think its top value.