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The editors liked
Graphically rich menu system
Easy to use
Relatively stylish design
Stylish
Fantastic graphical interface
Brilliant streaming
Super-quick
Lots of added coolness over normal Freeview boxes
Wireless
Records Peppa Pig
User interface
Digital media handling
HDMI switching
Huge hard disk
Cool animated user interface
Multimedia file support
Slim and quiet
As a standard PVR
The Pure Avalon 300R Connect excels
Picture quality is superb
And there’s 7.1 Surround Sound Dolby Digital Plus too if you’ve got the speakers for it.The Avalon itself is sleek
Low lying and well built
With a helpful four HDMI inputs for your other set top boxes
And it can pause and rewind live TV
Sky+ style - and with a huge hard drive
You’re not going to run out of spa
Freeview+ box with slick graphical interface
Built-in wifi
UPnP networking
Attractive UI
Unobtrusive design
Beautiful graphical interface
Excellent sound and vision performance
Soid file support
HDMI input switching
The editors didn't like
IPlayer is the only TV catchup service currently supported
Catchup TV services aren’t integrated into the EPG
Expensive
Far too expensive
Needs better catch-up range
Cheap remote control
Two tuners means clashes
No smartphone app remote
Pure Connect is slow
Limited On Demand services
Pure Connect slow to navigate
Unfortunately
While the Pure Avalon provides a polished experience with some neat extra services
For a £350 set top box
Its video-on-demand offering is well below average. Head on over to the catch up section and you’ll find BBC iPlayer and YouTube and
Er
That’s it.A year ago
That would have been par for the course. But in interim
Abstract: It’s been a while since I have looked at an Freeview HD PVR, in fact I have never looked at any TV device from Pure, a huge name in DAB radio. This unit is a twin tuner PVR and it can also connect to the Internet via Ethernet or Wi-Fi....
The Pure Avalon 300R Connect is a great Freeview box, excusing a few niggles with ease of recording. It is a little on the expensive side, more expensive than YouView offerings from BT and TalkTalk, but you're getting a well-built device with more storage...
As a standard PVR, the Pure Avalon 300R Connect excels: picture quality is superb, and there’s 7.1 Surround Sound Dolby Digital Plus too if you’ve got the speakers for it.The Avalon itself is sleek, low lying and well built, with a helpful four HDMI inputs for your other set top boxes, and it can pause and rewind live TV, Sky+ style - and with a huge hard drive, you’re not going to run out of spa
Unfortunately, while the Pure Avalon provides a polished experience with some neat extra services, for a £350 set top box, its video-on-demand offering is well below average. Head on over to the catch up section and you’ll find BBC iPlayer and YouTube and, er, that’s it.A year ago, that would have been par for the course. But in interim, YouView has swooped in and stolen our hearts: it’s Freeview
The Pure Avalon 300R Connect is an impressive gear change for Pure: it’s not every company that can boldly move into an entirely new market and come out with a solid, well thought out product right off the bat. Ultimately though, the lack of YouView ma...
Graphically rich menu system, Easy to use, Relatively stylish design
IPlayer is the only TV catchup service currently supported, Catchup TV services aren’t integrated into the EPG, Expensive
Despite its modern menus and integrated Wi-Fi, the Pure Avalon 300R’s paltry support for catch-up TV services and lack of catch-up integration in its EPG make it feel like a new riff on old technology. Unfortunately it's not quite in step with the like...
Freeview+ box with slick graphical interface, built-in wifi, UPnP networking
Expensive, limited range of online services
The online services are a little disappointing, though. At the moment it only supports the BBC iPlayer and YouTube, with no word on whether Netflix, LoveFilm or other UK services will be available in the future. It does, however, include Pure's own Connec...
Stylish, fantastic graphical interface, brilliant streaming, super-quick, lots of added coolness over normal Freeview boxes, wireless, records Peppa Pig
Far too expensive, needs better catch-up range
Years of disappointment in Freeview boxes is finally over, it seems. The Avalon is arguably a replacement for lots of other equipment in your home cinema. The HDMI switch means it can act as a central piece of hardware to manage things like your PS3...
User interface, Digital media handling, HDMI switching, Huge hard disk
Cheap remote control, Two tuners means clashes, No smartphone app remote, Pure Connect is slow
Pure's debut effort at a digital TV recorder is good, though we're struggling to find enough reasons to justify its high price. Although Pure hasn't underestimated the importance of a beefy processor, it may have misjudged the importance of a third tuner...
