Fed up of Pace Twin - what other options?
 

I bought a Pace twin about 8 months ago and frankly, I've about had enough
of it. The bugs are attrocious and I can't even guarantee receiving a
channel, let alone record it.

I don't want a Humax 8000 as it's not a twin, so what other twin HDD
recorders are available and what are their pro and cons?

Is, for example, the Thomson a twin? and is it any good, I never see it
mentioned in the forums.

Thanks in advance.

I,MM

took mine back on saturday argos were as good as gold

"I, Mustard Mitt" wrote in message
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I bought a Pace twin about 8 months ago and frankly, I've about had enough
of it. The bugs are attrocious and I can't even guarantee receiving a
channel, let alone record it.

I don't want a Humax 8000 as it's not a twin, so what other twin HDD
recorders are available and what are their pro and cons?

Is, for example, the Thomson a twin? and is it any good, I never see it
mentioned in the forums.

Thanks in advance.

I,MM

I, Mustard Mitt wrote:
I bought a Pace twin about 8 months ago and frankly, I've about had
enough of it. The bugs are attrocious and I can't even guarantee
receiving a channel, let alone record it.

I don't want a Humax 8000 as it's not a twin, so what other twin HDD
recorders are available and what are their pro and cons?


http://www.unbeatable.co.uk/CatalogueItem_16032.html
http://www.unbeatable.co.uk/CatalogueItem_17769.html

Don't know about pros and cons, sorry.


Is, for example, the Thomson a twin? and is it any good, I never see
it mentioned in the forums.


It's not been out long. Thomson are a good make though.


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"I, Mustard Mitt" wrote in message
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I bought a Pace twin about 8 months ago and frankly, I've about had enough
of it. The bugs are attrocious and I can't even guarantee receiving a
channel, let alone record it.

Build your own? See http://www.mythtv.org. Not for the faint hearted,
though.

Basically you bung two DTT cards in a PC, install Linux on it, and then bung
on MythTV and everything it depends on. Then all the fun starts in getting
it to work.

I'm about it give it a go myself. I'm attempting to install in on a spare PC
tonight, but that's only currently equipped with an analogue capture card.

Jethro Q Walrustitty wrote:
"I, Mustard Mitt" wrote in message
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I bought a Pace twin about 8 months ago and frankly, I've about had
enough of it. The bugs are attrocious and I can't even guarantee
receiving a channel, let alone record it.

Build your own? See http://www.mythtv.org. Not for the faint hearted,
though.

Basically you bung two DTT cards in a PC, install Linux on it, and
then bung on MythTV and everything it depends on. Then all the fun
starts in getting it to work.

I'm about it give it a go myself. I'm attempting to install in on a
spare PC tonight, but that's only currently equipped with an analogue
capture card.

If you want a really high quality TV output (RGB SCART) then a PC with an
XCard and a DVB-T PCI card running JovePlayer (now renamed TVEdia) produces
excellent results. Takes a bit of work - and requires you to run Windows
(the XCard doesn't have Linux drivers) - but the quality is excellent -
marginally better than my Philips DVD recorder and my Pace Freeview and Pace
DSat receivers.

Steve

http://www.unbeatable.co.uk/CatalogueItem_16032.html
http://www.unbeatable.co.uk/CatalogueItem_17769.html

Don't know about pros and cons, sorry.


Is, for example, the Thomson a twin? and is it any good, I never see
it mentioned in the forums.


It's not been out long. Thomson are a good make though.

I've got a Thomson DHD4000 - been very reliable. Has two tuners,
allows recording of two programmes at the same time while watching a
third. Can pause two TV channels at the same time to allow switching
between (very useful for watching the cricket!!). HD is 40GB. Been
very pleased with it. I have had no failed recordings, no zero minute
recordings etc. HDD's have been replaced by other users up to 120gb.

Some of the issues with it a-
- Live-pause buffer is only 30 minutes (no user options to increase
this)
- the unit is reasonably noisy (there is a fan in there which creates
most of the noise) - you'd have to hear it in your physical
surroundings to say whether it is acceptably quiet or not. I have it
next to my TV on top of my hi-fi separates, and I can hear it when the
TV is off but not much more than that. Others in the digitalspy
forums have them in cabinets and say that you can't hear it at all.
-It uses the 4TV program guide, which is only updated overnight, so it
doesn't pick up on any schedule changes that are made during the day.
- Can't (yet) start watching something that is recording from the
beginning (e.g. arrive late to watch a film, rewind it before it has
finished), though the competing Fusion box should get this soon, and
there is a suspicion that they share the same software
- Sometimes the MHEG crashes so that you can't get it to display
unless you wait until the next morning (the program guide download
also appears to reset the machine) or physically unplug it

Check out the Personal Video Recorders forum on digitalspy for much
more activity about this and the Fusion FVRT1000
(http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/...splay.php?f=35)

Cheers!

Matt

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:27:54 +0100, "Stephen Neal"
wrote:

If you want a really high quality TV output (RGB SCART) then a PC with an
XCard and a DVB-T PCI card running JovePlayer (now renamed TVEdia) produces
excellent results. Takes a bit of work - and requires you to run Windows
(the XCard doesn't have Linux drivers) - but the quality is excellent -
marginally better than my Philips DVD recorder and my Pace Freeview and Pace
DSat receivers.

Could you go into more detail about the XCard please?

Thanks.


Bye for now.

Clive.

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"I, Mustard Mitt" wrote:

I bought a Pace twin about 8 months ago and frankly, I've about had enough
of it. The bugs are attrocious and I can't even guarantee receiving a
channel, let alone record it.


I have had occasional problems recording but other than that Twins is an
excellent piece of kit hich I would not want to be without.


I don't want a Humax 8000 as it's not a twin, so what other twin HDD
recorders are available and what are their pro and cons?

Is, for example, the Thomson a twin? and is it any good, I never see it
mentioned in the forums.

Thanks in advance.

I,MM



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Treasurer Sheffield Folk Festival

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Turn left where the chip shop used to be.

I'm not sure the Pace Twin is actually made any more. There are a few other
options, including one from Thomson. A half-decent line up is actually
available on the dixons.co.uk site.

Can the card slot in the Pace Twin take a card for Top Up TV?

Pete

"Richard Watkinson" wrote in message
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"I, Mustard Mitt" wrote:

I bought a Pace twin about 8 months ago and frankly, I've about had
enough
of it. The bugs are attrocious and I can't even guarantee receiving a
channel, let alone record it.


I have had occasional problems recording but other than that Twins is an
excellent piece of kit hich I would not want to be without.


I don't want a Humax 8000 as it's not a twin, so what other twin HDD
recorders are available and what are their pro and cons?

Is, for example, the Thomson a twin? and is it any good, I never see it
mentioned in the forums.

Thanks in advance.

I,MM



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Richard Watkinson

Treasurer Sheffield Folk Festival

http://www.sheffieldfolkfestival.org/

Turn left where the chip shop used to be.

On 26/08/2004, Richard Watkinson wrote in message
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I have had occasional problems recording but other than that Twins is an
excellent piece of kit hich I would not want to be without.

That's my own feeling. I have the occasional problem with my
Twins not doing what it's meant to. But it's still worth the
money I paid for it and I wouldn't give it back for a refund.
That makes it difficult to complain about it.

Simon.
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On 27/08/2004, Bob wrote in message [email protected]
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Can the card slot in the Pace Twin take a card for Top Up TV?

No no and no. The Twins software doesn't know anything about
the slot. It's wired in but the software doesn't talk to it.

Simon.
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