RE: What can I buy to replace Tivo?

["Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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ianh1000 <mailto:ianh1000@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have had a Tivo for a few years now, I have it working with a=20
> Freeview STB and it works ok. I never bought the lifetime sub so it
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> costing me =A310 a month and I want to be able to archive to DVD.
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> I do like the season pass feature but otherwise don;t use its
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> recording features.

I bought a Topfield PVR-5800 (http://www.toppy.org.uk) when I was in
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act same situation 18 months ago.  It does pseudo season-passes by
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g program titles for text strings.  Not ideal, as it picks up repeats if
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u don't specify the date, and misses Top Gear when they show it on a
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ent day over Christmas.  It's got a USB port though, so you can extract
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grams, and burn them to DVD should you wish.  It also does MP3s and
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s if you want it to.

Cheers,
Andy
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