DVR recommendation please
 

tim.... wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Vic wrote:

Her TV is a fairly new 32" Samsung LCD with HDMI input and she has good
freeview reception. She has been given a couple of DVDs but has nothing
to play them on, so a unit incorporaing a DVD player would be useful. It
does not need to be HD, which may help to keep the cost down.
It would be mad to get something that wasn't HD.

Why?

HD is still 18 months away for me. Paying today's "early adoppter" prices
for a feature that I can't use for 18 months would be mad
Yes but you aren't buying it in 18 month's time, you're buying it now.
What yer gonna do, trash it and buy a new one later? If it's just going
to get light use it should last ten years. Anyway, this isn't 'early
adoptor' time for HD HDRs. Prices have come down. The market is stable.

She's got an HD screen. Are you condemning her to SD for the sake of a
few quid now? That's rather presumptuous.

You are assuming that because she's old she won't appreciate HD. Believe
me, the old people love it. "Ohh, ain't it clear!"

Bill

DVR recommendation please
 

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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tim.... wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Vic wrote:

Her TV is a fairly new 32" Samsung LCD with HDMI input and she has good
freeview reception. She has been given a couple of DVDs but has nothing
to play them on, so a unit incorporaing a DVD player would be useful.
It does not need to be HD, which may help to keep the cost down.
It would be mad to get something that wasn't HD.

Why?

HD is still 18 months away for me. Paying today's "early adoppter"
prices for a feature that I can't use for 18 months would be mad
Yes but you aren't buying it in 18 month's time, you're buying it now.
What yer gonna do, trash it and buy a new one later? If it's just going to
get light use it should last ten years. Anyway, this isn't 'early adoptor'
time for HD HDRs. Prices have come down. The market is stable.

She's got an HD screen. Are you condemning her to SD for the sake of a few
quid now? That's rather presumptuous.

I'm not condemning anybody. They are free to make the decisions themselves.
It was you who first used emotive words on this subject.

And I would suggest it's likely to be more than a "few" quid


You are assuming that because she's old she won't appreciate HD.

I made no such claim.

tim

DVR recommendation please
 

tim.... wrote:

Her TV is a fairly new 32" Samsung LCD with HDMI input and she has good
freeview reception. She has been given a couple of DVDs but has nothing
to play them on, so a unit incorporaing a DVD player would be useful.
It does not need to be HD, which may help to keep the cost down.
It would be mad to get something that wasn't HD.
Why?

HD is still 18 months away for me. Paying today's "early adoppter"
prices for a feature that I can't use for 18 months would be mad
Yes but you aren't buying it in 18 month's time, you're buying it now.
What yer gonna do, trash it and buy a new one later? If it's just going to
get light use it should last ten years. Anyway, this isn't 'early adoptor'
time for HD HDRs. Prices have come down. The market is stable.

She's got an HD screen. Are you condemning her to SD for the sake of a few
quid now? That's rather presumptuous.

I'm not condemning anybody. They are free to make the decisions themselves.

Yes, but you are acting as their advisor and you said "It does not need
to be HD". So either they decided that, and you failed to advise them
otherwise (because that was your belief), or you decided it for them. In
either case I thought it worth pointing out the plus points of buying HD
now.

It was you who first used emotive words on this subject.
I must have felt some emotion then. I have Latin blood.


And I would suggest it's likely to be more than a "few" quid
There's not that much in it these days.


You are assuming that because she's old she won't appreciate HD.

I made no such claim.
I thought you made that assumption. "It does not need to be HD" you
said. Why else would she not want HD? Is she visually handicapped?

Bill

DVR recommendation please
 

In message , Bill Wright
wrote

I thought you made that assumption. "It does not need to be HD" you
said. Why else would she not want HD? Is she visually handicapped?

Some who has a sight problems related to age may actually benefit from
having HD

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Alan
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