From 10am on 25th January until 9am on 27th January, a brand new v4.6 update is being broadcast. The DTG site say the update is just for Hitachi boxes, but in fact the update is applicable to and will be picked up by all brands of T835 box. Details of the update are scarce, but it most likely brings a number of internal fixes since v3.4.

However, one notable new feature is the addition of Target Region Descriptor support that allows you to pick which transmitter to use when scanning for channel which is useful if your box picks up a signal from multiple transmitters. Also, support for the Freeview HD green button trailer booking has been added.

Vestel's new T7300 DVB-T2 Freeview+ HD box has been launched after several months of development and testing. Currently, it is only available from Argos under the guise of a Bush 320Gb Freeview HD Recorder.

If you own a Vestel T810 or T816 based PVR, you may be finding that channels are disappearing from your channel list overnight or after powering off/on at the mains. Exactly which channels disappear is dependent on your local TV transmitter. Basically, these boxes are currently limited to a maximum of 99 channels.

The recommended solution for avoiding this is to perform an automatic channel scan and immediately manually delete any unwanted channels from the channel list, so that you have less than 100 channels. T816 owners should also ensure that the "Scan encrypted" option in the setup/configuration menu is set to "No" which will ensure that most of the channels that cannot be viewed on non-TopUp TV boxes anyway will not be added to your channel list.