The only negative is that sometimes whilst watching recorded TV, it freezes, and the TV has to be switched off, and started again.

When it asks for your PIN, enter the Master PIN and then follow the instructions to create a new one.It was not immediately obvious that deleting a recording must be done via "Recording options", but it's easy enough when you know.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Depending on what you are watching it can be just seen as a little annoyance or it can just ruin the viewing of a film.

Things are very different, however, on the T2-R – the programme guide comes up instantly when you press the remote, jumping between days and channels is also very quick, and the whole thing just feels as snappy as it should in this day and age. Of course, WiFi would have been a nice touch, but upping the costs mainly for software updates is indeed not very cost-effective.