RE: [OT] Freeview PVRs

["Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Harris <mailto:phil@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
>>> 1) I couldn't get it *NOW* (i.e. a short run down the road,
hand
>>> over plastic and walk away with product).
>>=20
>> I ordered mine one afternoon, and it arrived the next morning. 
That
>> was good enough for me.
>=20
> I'm not that patient... ;-)

LOL!

>>> 2) I don't want to be fannying about "hacking" or
"modifying"
>>> sh*t nowadays ... I don't have the time or the inclination to
try to
>>> get a bit of kit doing stuff that the manufacturers didn't
intend it
>>> to.
>>=20
>> The manufacturers did intend this sort of thing to happen with the
>> Toppy, which is why they released the SDK.
>=20
> Yes, I understand the concept of TAPs and why they're there
> but I don't have the time (or the inclination) to spend time
> implementing extensions to bits of kit that have to be in use
> here at home - if it was just me here then maybe but with Jo
> and Edward being ready to leap into cries and sulks if
> anything affects Corrie, Eastenders and whatever Ceebeebies
> crap is on then I just want things that can remain as the
> manufacturer made them and work - and if they don't work then
> they go back to be sorted under warranty. TiVo was a great
> example of a bit of kit that just worked "right" from the
> outset without needing to be buggered about with ... if there
> was a TiVo with a couple of freeview tuners in it I'd have
> bought one - no questions asked.

Fair point.  That's what I was after, but installing a bit of software in
a=
ddition to the standard software didn't worry me.  It's worked flawlessly
f=
or the couple of months we've had it, and I could get it working even
bette=
r if I could be bothered - we don't use most of the channels, but I can't
b=
e bothered to delete them.

>> As for time faffing, it took less
>> time to get Toppy running than the age it took to the guided setup
>> with Tivo.  Of course, I can faff further should I want to.
>  The only
>> thing that made me buy Toppy was that it's the only thing that
does
>> season passes on Freeview without losing quality (unless I've
missed
>> another product that does it).
>=20
> Media Centre... ;-)

I should've added another criteria - under =A3300 :-p

Cheers,
Andy