RE: TopupTV PVR Coming...

["Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Neil Fuller [mailto:neil.fuller@xxxxxxx]
> I've got a Toppy and they are the doggies dangley bits!!!
>
> Not tried it with Topup TV but for ease of use and customisation with
> TAPs (Topfield Application Programmes) there doesn't seem to be much
to
> touch it.

I think it's tops!  The interface is easy to use, and it just works.  It's
good quality, and you can pull the recordings off and convert to another
format for viewing on the move or whatever.  The season passes are crude
(text matching), but that's a limitation in the Freeview EPG.  You can use
software on a host PC to do proper season passes.

> Even SWMBO (who is a self confessed technophobe) recently commented on
> how easy and simple it was to use. Her only complaint was "why
didn't
> you get one before"?
>
> Anyone want to buy a 120GB TiVo with Tivo web etc? Replies off list or
> it goes on Ebay when I get back from holiday.

SWMBO loved Tivo with a passion.  The best SWMBO-compliant device I ever
bought.  She hates the fact that Toppy has replaced it.  It's more because
the Tivo interface was so good, rather than the Toppy one being bad.  I use
MyStuff, which has a Sky+ interface.  I like it.  Rows of channels and time
increasing to the right.  Arrow buttons select the program, then either OK
to watch it, REC to record it, or SLOW for a season pass (it doesn't have a
suitable button for season passes).

Cheers,
Andy