Testseek.co.uk have collected 11 expert reviews of the Pure Avalon 300R Connect and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Pure Avalon 300R Connect.
(78%)
11 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
-
0 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
78010011
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
iPlayer the only catch-up service, No Netflix or LoveFilm
The Pure Avalon 300R is a next-generation PVR. It has the multiple tuners, the series link feature and the big hard drive we expect from digital video recorders. But it also has inbuilt Wi-Fi and support for streaming services like iPlayer. The problem is...
