Oscilloscope for newbie

[gearboxes]

Hello everyone,
New here and to electronics for the most part. Recently I started with a few projects purely as a hobby doing real basic stuff with Raspberry PI, Arduino etc.
For the most part I do not need an oscilloscope, but want to learn as I go. I used a scope ~20 years ago in high school with the most advance stuff being some basic transistor testing.

I would appreciate some feedback around two scopes I narrowed it down to for a budget of under $300:

1. Siglent SDS1052DL 50MHz
http://www.amazon.com/Siglent-SDS1052DL-Digital-Oscilloscope-Frequency/dp/B00GQNN70A

2. Hitachi VC-6025 50MHz
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hitachi-VC-6025-50MHz-Digital-Analog-Oscilloscope-Calibrated-Two-Probes-/151896499788?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

#1 is my top choice due to the small footprint and its new, but I am not sure if I would be better off with an older scope as oppose to the very bottom of whats new in the market.
As far as use, I assume new scopes are easier to use and I am not sure if that is good or bad from an educational standpoint for a newbie.

[ProBang2]

Hello,

I would go for the first, too. IMO there is only a slight advantage for analog scopes at showing curves of acoustic stuff.
A digital scope contains much more functionality.
For "educational" use: Simply avoid the AUTO-Button...

Can you expand your budget to $400?
My recommandation is the Rigol Ds1054z.
Much more bang per buck.
Not alone 4 channels.
Itīs very simple hackable to 100 MHz bandwidth, more memory and protocol-decoding.

Greetings,

Hartmut

[gearboxes]

Thanks.
I went with the Rigol unit.
As you mentioned it was easy to enable 100MHz and protocol decoders. I think Rigol is using it as somewhat of "underground" marketing if you ask me they got me even though I would probably never need any of those features.
I tooled around with I2C, but I could not get the decoding to work, trigger seems to work fine most likely just my lack knowledge.

[Paul Collins M0BSW]

Hello, I'm lucky enough to have a Analogue, Farnell DTV 20  & A DSO Siglent sds1102cnl, both have individual uses, so if you can obtain both, you'll have the best of both worlds, analogues are usually really cheap, sometime you can get them for free, and the Siglents are a reasonable price to.