Keith G wrote:


"Ashley Booth" wrote in message
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Gio wrote:


Thanks for the tip Keith. With luck it will be delivered on Wed
so no report for a bit. It seems a little strange that the
machine plays dead when a drive is fitted. I would have thought
the machine would have set about formatting the new drive on
boot-up then would have been ready for tuning. By the way what
is ukra ? The only thing I know with those letters are The
United Kingdom Rocket Association (UKRA) as in www.ukra.org.uk/
If it means something else then you will have to let me know
because my isp does not list ukra on the newsgroup list.

Gio

Just got one of these. The tuners are not very sensitive - I get
breakup on it but not on a BT Netgem on the same aerial and lead.


Yep, I've discovered it needs a decent aerial then no problems!


Biggest drawback found so far is
NO subtitles!



Must be the programme, Ashley - I've just checked BBC1 and subbies
are there (and off again) at the press of a button.

The one quirk I think I've found is if you hit the Record button
(effectively a One Touch Record button) to grab a programme it seems
to need 'confirming' (at the 2 hour default recording period) by the
second press of the button and then 'OK' - otherwise it can chunter
on recording to (presumably) the limit of the available disk space!

(It's no biggie - I can live with it, especially as I would probably
alter the recording period with a second press of the button as often
as not, in any case!)

Had a further play with it. Got the subtitles to work now.

Other comments.

Pressing MUTE 'mutes' the subtitles as well!

Very difficult to use the EPG more than a day or so in advance. You
right scroll thru the listings but after about a day or so in advance
the listings run out. You see them update but it then takes you back to
the present time. Very frustrating!

Selecting OK to record from the EPG is complicated as you are offered
the chance to alter the record time then you have to go into a little
sub-menu to activate the recording.

The item you are recording does not show up in the recordings list
until it has finished recording.

I guess I've been spoilt by having 3 TiVos.

Tried to give it to my mother(83) to use but she said it sounded too
complicated for her.

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