Nick Gorham wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Keith G wrote:

We already have a Topfield (Swim's) and a Thomson (was mine) - I get
excellent *projectable quality* DVD Videos (no siplynch problems)
from the Toppy via the computer but it won't record GQT (R4) for
some reason and 'chase play' navigation is hopeless, so I lost the
Tommy under the heading 'use it or lose it!


I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'chase play' - is that making up
some form of play list so it will chunter out more than one
pre-recorded prog? But have you checked if there is any software
available to do what you want? Mine records radio fine - or at least
has on trial. I normally use the PC for this as I'm more likely to
listen to them in that area.
I was hoping someone had one and could tell me what the recorded
files were - with a 300 Gig hard disk in it it would be possible to
load it up with every damn thing that looked anything like a
possible over a period of time, then pop it/swap it out and hook it
straight up to the PC for processing as and when....


Are you sure the files on its HD can be read direct by your PC? Just
wondering...



I would have thought at that price its unlikely to include the cost
of a Windows CE license, so it likely to be a Linux based OS, so I
suspect your windows PC won't make any sense of the disk.

If it's simply a linux based disk, then booting a live os of say Knoppix
should enable you to read the files and transfer them to an NTFS or FAT32
drive, but if it's anything like the Sky boxes with HD, then it'll be
encrypted :-(