― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link
I got one that has dual hard disks and you can record two or three programs at once, do time-shifting etc etc. It's quite pricy - about £180, I think, but really, really worth it.
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 10:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Here's a question - where to buy a Sony VTX-D800U remote control for cheap? We've "lost" ours (by which I mean it's been sucked into our domestic maelstrom of garbage; I did find my house keys this morning, which is a start).
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 10:30 (seventeen years ago) link
For real? I thought Currys et al offered a 14 day or so no-quibble refund policy on all purchases? Do they specifically exclude digiboxes from this now because they get so many returned?
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link
I have just been ogling Humax.
I seem to remember The Pinefox STANDING UP to watch/listen to the extended red button only post-match analysis on that occasion.
Our dropouts have been increasing of late, which makes me thing it could have a lot to do with the crappy box, which is just over a year old, meaning it is out of warranty. Not that it ever warranted a warranty.
We might have bad cable too.
Perhaps I should go and have a word with the friendly dur-brains at Maplins.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
the aerial will be for TV in general but you generally will need an exterior aeiral to get freeview (most places you can rub along with an indoors aerial). so yes get
1x tv1x freeview box
if you have a video it goes aerial port --> freeview box --> TV.
or video --> TV if you get a video.
£40 is still good going i think so if it's good why not? you can get cheaper. (everybody else is getting digital recorder things like humax now apparently, so i guess set-tops boxes are getting cheaper.)
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost: gah, f*ckin SCART. Feels like the 1970s.
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link
THE HORROR!
― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't know, but the 1971 Neil Young performance on Friday week is a cracker. He does this thing with the BBC paper cups.
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link
I have never heard about that, Alba.
I do so enjoy "Rock Goes To College".
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link
maybe ed can help? 8)
with mine i plugged it in and it worked but then i don't live in the countryside (sticks). was old itv digital box that i subscribed to so we could watch buffy. freezes up at times (mainly bbc4).
mike, a universal remote maybe, maybe one that does tv and video and set top box. tenner for a 3-way at argos. (sounds a bit rude)
my dislike of scarts is largely to do with the way they come out at an angle, an angle that's almost always inconvenient. i blame the french.
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
That was a bit longwinded. To sum up:
a) I am a joey.
b) My digibox lacks some kind of "shielding".
c) funny old world.
I want one of those Humax recording things.
I wonder if ITV Digital boxes are collectors' items?
3-way at Argos sounds absolutely delightful. Brings a whole new meaninglessness to "please go to your collection point".
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 4 January 2007 08:07 (seventeen years ago) link
does he talk over the starts and ends of the clips on the dvds? (grrr)
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 4 January 2007 09:58 (seventeen years ago) link
haha showing yr age there boy!
we get dropouts all the bloody time and we have a fuck-off communal arial on the roof. it'd never occurred to me that it might actually be the fault of the pikey cheapo stb.
― CharlieNo4 (CharlieNo4), Thursday, 4 January 2007 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link