Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Keith G wrote:
Now Tony, you're perhaps the one to ask - having seen what Swim's Toppy
can do, I grabbed a couple of Tommies (Thomson Twins? :-) real cheep
from Argos (again.....) this morning. (One is for someone else.....)

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/thompsontwins.JPG


Do you know anything seriously detrimental about them or are they OK? -
They are less than half the cost of a Toppy and *seem* to have all the
bells and whistles (on the latest firmware) for decent 'watch and
blow'...???

Have you got the full spec?

I recently got a Toppy and am generally pleased with it.

Three things annoy (so far) :-

It is slow to fire up from standby.
The EPG can take a long time to load fully
If the TV is in standby - and you're out so doing an 'unattended'
recording, it switches the TV on when it drops into record.

Brilliant bits:-
Simple recording off EPG - if only this was more accurate. ;-(
Easy to use for the basics - ie treating it like a VCR
Can record two things at once and watch a third live all off Freeview.
The ability to pause a 'live' prog when - say - the phone goes and pick it
up from there afterwards.
Pretty well as far as my viewing unlimited storage - I've got the 250 gig
version.

More or less ditto with the Humax 9200T. The most irritating thing is
EPG accuracy which, IIUC, can be corrected (padded a couple of minutes
either side) with the Topfield - not so with the Humax. I'd add MP3
playback - limited to 5GB or so ATM.

One FreeView moan. Some radio services peak to 0dBFS. TV sound only to
-10dBFS. Many older progs on the 'minority' channels to considerably less
than -10. So switching from TV sound to radio can result in a *vast*
change in level.


Not noticed that.

Rob