Wharfedale DV832B
I strongly suggest that nobody every buys a Wharfedale DV832B set top box. These are currently on sale in Argos punted as a low power model. I have not made any investigations into the power consumption, so I have no idea how accurate that is.
The unit looks nice, its apparently well built and the user interface is straightforward. It supports full 7 day EPG and has an option to drop back to the old 24 hour EPG. Tuning is fast and intuitive and the picture quality looks fine. I don’t like the absence of channel re-ordering, but that’s only a feature on more advanced units. The major problem I have with the machine is that every few minutes there is a 2 or 3 second audio drop. This is not accompanied by any clicks or pops, its just plain and simple silence. This could be an issue with just my machine you might think. No! Several people on Digital Spy have had the same issue as me:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=482516
I therefore recommend that no-one even considers buying this machine and opts for something made by someone else entirely. The unit has been in production for 3 years, and from what I can very few efforts have been made to rectify the problem. The technical support line told me it was a problem with my SCART lead (its not).