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#173808 7-Jun-2015 10:08
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I have a customer that is thinking of getting Igloo.

I have experienced numerous problems with the Igloo service when installing the unit including buggy operation and issues with registering the set-top box but would like to get an opinion from an end user perspective.

Does anybody have any advice on weather this is a good compromise between freeview and sky or would they be better to stick with one or the other? How good is the time-shift via the USB?




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  #1318617 7-Jun-2015 10:49
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My flatmate has used Igloo for a year now. She gets a lot of use out of it, and I don't think she has any complaints. I put a 4GB USB drive into it so she could pause her favourite show while making dinner -- it gave her about half an hour, from memory. It is the simplest pause function really, press the wrong button and you lose the playback. This was quite common, I'd occasionally hear some inappropriate dinner-time language coming from the lounge.

She does like the 'book' function, or whatever it is, she goes through the guide once a week and 'books' her favourites, which basically just gives a few minutes warning before-hand, so she knows what's coming.

It often loses the guide, which required a reboot. This is more an issue for me than her -- she just asks me to fix it -- but rebooting is soooooo slow. Navigating the search is slow/laggy enough to make me cry, but she uses it a lot.

Apart from those minor things, it works ok for her, she loves the English shows, so she has no interest in Netflix etc. For me, it just seems like the same show on all the time -- British rural police drama...




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