Bought one of these yesterday. A bit like a TiVo, but without the monthly charges, and with a built-in DVD player.

Superb bit of kit.

 

With Tivo the subscription is for the TV listings so that you can browse for programs to record & set 'season passes' to record programmes whenever they're on.

How does this thing work then - presumably more like a traditional VCR ?

Sounds quite cool though - storing photo's on the disk will appeal to lots of people with digital cameras & no PC !

 

Yeah, it's much more like a traditional VCR, but it also downloads schedule information direct from Teletext, so you can just 'point & click' on programs to set up record timers, as well as setting them up manually. And of course you can do 'time slip' (i.e., pause a program and continue watching/recording at the same time later on).

I got it 'cos we're unlikely to get digital in the near future where I am (ruling out the Pace Twin) and although TiVo's good, it's impossible to get hold of one now, and I don't want to pay out the monthly subs fee (same reasons for not getting Sky+).

The only downside appears to be the lack of support for SVCD disks, but it's not a major problem (hopefully a future firmware update might improve on that). Uploading MP3s and photos to the HDD is very cool though.

There's even a remote-control hack to make the DVD player region free.

 

Mark,

That looks pretty good. How much is it, if you don't mind me asking... (and do they do it in black )...

 

How do you clean them Mark?

 

Nimbus - £399 from www.unbeatable.co.uk. Argos are also doing them for the same price, but they're out of stock right now. Only available in Silver....

There's a review of it here.

Clean what, Telboy?

[Edited by MarkO - 5/29/2003 10:33:15 AM]