The PVRX2 wasn't perfect. The Electronic Program Guide (EPG) was slow. The menus looked like Excel spreadsheets. It did not have HDMI (only SCART to Component).
The was never a mainstream blockbuster. It won't be in the Smithsonian. But for a generation of Australian and European TV watchers, it represented a philosophical high point in consumer electronics: Does the device do one job perfectly? Wintal International PVRX2 Player