Our Overall Score:
9.3/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our BT YouView+ HD Recorder review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if BT YouView+ HD Recorder is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Set top boxes category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £135
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like BT YouView+ HD Recorder. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, BT or alternative products in the Set top boxes category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of BT YouView+ HD Recorder
BT YouView+ HD Recorder scores 9.8/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Set top boxes. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of BT YouView+ HD Recorder, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for BT YouView+ HD Recorder and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Set top boxes, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Set top boxes? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
BT YouView+ HD Recorder scores 8.6/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Set top boxes category was £219.99, whilst the cheapest we found was £10.00 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of BT YouView+ HD Recorder down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Set top boxes category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Set top boxes category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for BT YouView+ HD Recorder.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Set top boxes category. This was £88.60 from the 28 products we found in that category. So BT YouView+ HD Recorder actually comes in above average at £135.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £219.99 and the least expensive, which was £10.00. In total we found that of the 28, 8 were more expensive and 19 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as BT YouView+ HD Recorder.
Prices of products from BT
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, BT. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from BT, which was £71.59 of the 25 products we found. So BT YouView+ HD Recorder price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from BT was £11.99 with the most expensive coming in at £269.99.
Prices of products from BT and in the Set top boxes category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from BT that sit specifically within the Set top boxes category.
For this we found that the average price was £135.00, making BT YouView+ HD Recorder at £135 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £135.00 with the lowest priced item being £135.00. In total there were 0 items that were more expensive and 0 that was less expensive.
Reviews of BT YouView+ HD Recorder
BT YouView+ HD Recorder scores 9.6/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good BT YouView+ HD Recorder is.
Overall score
BT YouView+ HD Recorder scores 9.3/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from BT so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for BT YouView+ HD Recorder by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: BT YouView+ HD Recorder
- Brand: BT
- Model Number: 22103774
- Up to 300 hours recordingCatch-up TV & StreamingEthernetPause / rewind / record live TVSeries Link – record an entire series
- EAN: 5016351616659
- Description: All your favourite contentEnjoy your favourite shows without subscriptions with the BT YouView+ HD Recorder. It offers access to catch-up TV services including BBC iPlayer and All 4, as well as the Now TV service to provide you with even more viewing options. Connect your recorder to the internet using the Ethernet connection and you’re ready to start watching your favourite shows without needing to pay subscription fees. Fantastic features The handy seven-day programme guide lets you scroll both backward and forward to find the TV you want to watch with ease. You can pause and rewind live TV, and there’s also a handy series link that makes it easy to keep track of every episode, so you won’t miss a moment. TV when you want it The 500 GB hard drive integrated into the YouView+ HD Recorder lets you record up to 150 hours of high definition TV to watch back whenever you like. You can even set your box recording using your iPhone or Android, perfect when you’ve forgotten to set your recorder to record a must-see show.__________________________________________________________Please note: Requires an internet connection for the initial setup and to use services such as catch-up TV and software updates.
- Product ID: 3103467539
