Free to Air Satellite Receiver Full HD DVB-S2 + USB Port Schedule HD Program Recorder, Labgear VSAT02 Compact TV Satellite Box with Remote Control

This is an incredible little box for the money. I had a Technomate box which worked well until a year or so ago and this box was bought as a replacement. Though I liked the old Technomate, this is in a different class. It is much smaller, easier to install, set-up satellites, favourites and channels than any other box I've used and it responds to the remote control much more quickly. I'll be buying some more of these for the other rooms in the house. Picture and sound quality is excellent, although for some reason the sound of French channels France 2,3 and 4 on Eutelsat 5 is somewhat distorted. If you can live without an EPG and streaming services I would recommend the TVSAT2 wholeheartedly!

Quirky little device! You are probably buying this in the UK to receive FREESAT? If so, read on....When you tune it all the Free to Air channels, they are numbered randomly. It has no postcode feature for regional channels - so you have to look through 15 ITV HDs and find the one that works (14 were listed and didn't) but 0330 was the one that did. You then manually move it 0003 (so you can easily select it). I thought the box didn't work at first but you have to go through them all to find the one that does.No wifi - so no catchup (iPlayer) or casting (YouTube),It takes about two hours to get the channels into the Freesat numbers that you know. What you lose in time to do this you gain in £150 saving on a Freesat unit.It records OK but you have to tell it how long to record i.e. 2hr 30min. There's no native little feature like on Freesat where it adds 3 minutes to ensure you get the end or if the program moves/over runs - will record it anyway. Another one is the Channel 5 films that have a 5 minute program in the middle - recording the first half of a film doesn't automatically record the second half.New channel added on the satellite or Freesat channel renumbered - you have to do it all manually and then move the channels around again.This is ideal for a bedroom where you want to watch 10 channels and generally don't want to record.Timeshift allows you to pause live TV (with USB memory stick) but when you press play again it jumps forward in time to live (not how Freesat boxes work) so you miss that bit! It would drive me crackers if it was my main TV device.The remote isn't intuitive either - the button conventions are just odd.If you could point your dish at other satellites (not Astra) there may be other foreign programs you could watch but you really need a 1 meter motorized dish for that and then you should buy a proper receiver.Quality of the HD picture is excellent though. Remote very flimsy.

Plug and play, excellent picture and more channels than expected.The box is very small & has so far out performed my expectations.Bought expecting a few problems during setup, however once the correct salalite is selected and you read the insturctions it performs very well.Setting up a channel list is a bit of a pain but no less so than a new Sky box.Good value, does what is supposed to do and arrived quickly.

These last few weeks several tv stations have disappeared or turned to HD. I rely on Freesat, and as a result it's becoming increasingly difficult to find something to watch. Select a programme I used to watch and now I often get 'no signal'. Had the engineer check to disc etc and he recommended a manhatten box, but when I looked at the reviews, it seems they're not all they're cracked up to be.And so I bought this. Big mistake. The enclosed pamphlet is, frankly, an insult. Don't look for 'how to set up' because it's not there. Instead, pages and pages of tiny print covering a multitude of technical bumph. Frankly, if I understood that, I'd build my own set.As it's cheap, the cost / hassle of sending it back is not worth it. I'll just throw it away, still in box. So, in essence, don't go anywhere near this item. Does it work? Who knows, but with the way things are going, not to mention the licence fee, I may well give up TV when the licence is due at year's end and go back to reading.

I bought this when I cancelled my Sky Q account, expecting that I could use the existing satellite dish. however when I set the device up I found that some channels worked fine (eg ITV1 HD, ITV2 HD, Channel 4 HD, QVC, Quest) but many didn’t (eg any of the BBC channels, Yesterday, etc). I emailed the company’s tech support and was told this: “ If you want all of the channels / transponders then you need to attach the VSAT02 to an older KU band LNB as used in the Legacy Sky Plus HD prior to the release of Sky Q. The box is probably OK however it will not work with a Sky Q Wideband LNB”.So if you’re using a dish that you have previously used with Sky Q this isn’t the box for you. It’s a shame as it’s quite a nice little device other than that.

Easy to install, I was worried as I never did this before and I needed to change HD. But no worries with this device it was easy and a pleasure. All is working very well.Another benefit the device is very compact and does not need a lot of room.

Great little box for the price. Very good picture quality. Astra 28.2 channels are pre-tuned but may need to be retuned for latest frequency changes to some channels.