Advantages: Twin tuner. Additional apps can be added.
Disadvantages: Initial startup takes a few seconds. Think this is with all PVR's Thou

...at a press of a button. Yes I know the price is a lot more than the cheap brands but it offers so much more. This is truly an exceptional piece of kit. You can even change the size of the hard disk with the information provided on the forum at http://www.toppy.org.uk/ (This will invalidate it's warranty). So really what more can I say. With this box anything goes but not only that it does it in style with great quality. There are other reviews for this product on Ciao aswell but under another listing name so go and check out what some of the other users have to say. Link http://www.ciao.co.uk/TopfieldTF5800T6238789... Read review

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Advantages: To Many read the review.
Disadvantages: Takes a few seconds to startup, But i think all pvr's do.

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Advantages: Twin tuner flexibility. Good tech support with upgrades etc from toppy.org.uk forum
Disadvantages: A lot to learn, not helped by p***-poor manual

...April 2008 - Two years down the line, I remain convinced that, foibles excepted, the Topfield 5800 remains the clear leader in its field, so much so that I've bought second one before they stop making them in favour of the new 5810T. *************************************************************** I'd owned a PVR before; the excellent Humax 8000PVRT, designed solely for Freeview digital terrestrial TV, but since buying it, two things happened. a) I got fed up with paying £19.50/month to Sky, just for a load of dross intermingled with the free channels I can get elsewhere and b) My TV started to become very troublesome, and any replacement I was to buy was likely to be a flat screen monitor requiring outboard tuners. The Humax's single tuner for Freeview would then have been a limitation. To put the icing on the cake, I was using... Read review

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