"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Gio" wrote


Hi Keith,
Well the unit arrived today and after following your advice re tuning
then shut down and add an old HD followed by a reboot / format and things
are looking well. I had to adjust the colour and brightness but other
than that it records programs and after a bit of confusion over changing
channels while recording on the other tuner it worked well. Whether it
will be like that 12 months on is another thing but till then it will sit
next to my Humax unit.
It is a shame it does not put a title onto a 'booked' recording (from the
epg) and the full screen epg changes channel as you scan through the
listing for another program is a bit of a pain . I would have liked the
original channel to have remained in the preview window while I -or
should I say the other half- looks for something else to watch but that
aside it appears good value with A1 reception .


Hi Gio,

Yes, the lack of a title from the EPG is a PITA - it leaves you no choice
but to title the recordings the hard way if you are going to leave them on
the machine for any length of time. (Imagine 3, 4 or even 500 Gig of
recordings all named 'BBC One-1 to BBC One-328 &c. - nightmare!)

I still say it's a doddle for 'watch & blow' and 'chase play' viewing,
though.

As it isn't going to be possible (?) to take movies off the HDD, I ran the
S-Video output round to my little cheap (but good) BenQ W100 digital PJ
and was quite impressed with the results which ranged from 'watchable' to
really quite good, according to the broadcast and original material. I
haven't changed any settings at all and would say the colours (and blacks
in particular) were really very acceptable; allowing for the digital
camera, check these out:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image01.JPG

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image02.JPG

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image03.JPG

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image04.JPG

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image05.JPG


Not bad for the price of a curry (and beers) for two, I'd say - given the
HDD has laid about unused for a couple of years!!



Not bad at all :-) and thanks for the posting. I just want to see if I can
use my all in one remote to control the basic functions then I will be happy
because the supplied handset does seem -in my case- to be very directional.

Gio