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

Good price, works well, brilliant picture quality and was very easy to set up. No negatives at all that we've found so far. (used for German TV free to air broadcasts in the UK)

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.

Bought this as an affordable replacement for an old freesat box, given how little I watch TV I couldn't justify paying a premium , and it works just fine. It does need yuu to read the manual, but the blind scan feature works well.

Total rubbish. Don’t waste your money. Comes preset with Chanel’s but you can’t get them. The few I got were amazing. But not worth the money. Will be sending it back.

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.

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!

Very good Quality easy to set up.loads of free channels.

I've given this receiver 4 stars, but it would have been 5 stars, but for what seem to me two major failings in LabGear's marketing. The receiver itself is every bit as good as my previous one, with the added advantage that it is very compact & therefore doesn't require a lot of space. The picture's good, the sound is good, you can organise channels as you want them, you can re-name them and. importantly, you can either delete or ask it to skip channels you will never watch, thus avoiding clutter. However, I do undertand why some reviewers decided to send it sstraight back to Amazon. I would never have been able to set it up properly, if I hadn't learnt how to do it with my previous receiver. The instructions are woefully inadequate. For example, I wanted to receive channels from 3 different satellites. To do this I first had to tell the receiver that my equipment included a switch (called a DiseqC) and give each satellite a different letter. All this is easy to do, but it is not even mentioned in the instructions. Secondly it was a big mistake to pre-load channels from Astra 2: my receiver was set up for Northern Ireland, whereas I live in Scotland &, in additon, all the ITV channels and channels like More 4, Film 4, etc, had moved to a different transponder since they were loaded. All the pre-loading did was to create confusion: far better to have given the user clear instructions and left them to scan the satellite(s) themselves. In short, before you buy this, you need to know a reasonable amount about setting up a satellite receiver or arrange to get an expert to do it for you.