magazine

If I wanted to read a coupla' issues of a
"what telly to buy" magazine, just to get
a feel for what's around, what I might like,
all that...

what magazine is worth buying?

It strikes me that 10-15 quid on magazines
might be a wise investment prior to
spending over 1000 GPB on a telly

BugBear

You want "Which?" magazine. No BS. I have never been disappointed by
their recommendations

They probably do a free trial.

bugbear wrote:
If I wanted to read a coupla' issues of a
"what telly to buy" magazine, just to get
a feel for what's around, what I might like,
all that...

what magazine is worth buying?

It strikes me that 10-15 quid on magazines
might be a wise investment prior to
spending over 1000 GPB on a telly

BugBear

You want "Which?" magazine. No BS. I have never been disappointed by
their recommendations

They probably do a free trial.

bugbear wrote:
If I wanted to read a coupla' issues of a
"what telly to buy" magazine, just to get
a feel for what's around, what I might like,
all that...

what magazine is worth buying?

It strikes me that 10-15 quid on magazines
might be a wise investment prior to
spending over 1000 GPB on a telly

BugBear

On 4 Jul 2006 15:44:41 -0700, wrote:

You want "Which?" magazine. No BS. I have never been disappointed by
their recommendations

Yeah, a magazine that does a roundup of PVR's, recommends the Humax,
and doesn't even review the far superior Topfield. Very useful.
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You want "Which?" magazine. No BS. I have never been disappointed by
their recommendations

They probably do a free trial.

Check it out at your local library.

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...
On 4 Jul 2006 15:44:41 -0700, wrote:

You want "Which?" magazine. No BS. I have never been disappointed by
their recommendations

Yeah, a magazine that does a roundup of PVR's, recommends the Humax,
and doesn't even review the far superior Topfield. Very useful.

I don't think the Topfield is available in ordinary shops.

I haven't seen the latest Which?, but the last PVR report I saw slagged off
the Humax (albeit prior to the latest software releases) but recommended two
others that couldn't cope with recording consecutive programmes properly and
couldn't record two programmes at the same time even though they were dual
tuner.

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wrote:
You want "Which?" magazine. No BS. I have never been disappointed by
their recommendations


Hmm. I've always been most impressed with
their reviews of things I know nothing about.

Sadly, I've always found their reviews
of items I know about to be rubbish,
which makes me suspect that my
judgement of the other reviews.

BugBear

On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:32:52 +0100, bugbear
wrote:

Hmm. I've always been most impressed with
their reviews of things I know nothing about.

Sadly, I've always found their reviews
of items I know about to be rubbish,
which makes me suspect that my
judgement of the other reviews.

Too true.
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bugbear wrote:
wrote:
You want "Which?" magazine. No BS. I have never been disappointed by
their recommendations


Hmm. I've always been most impressed with their reviews of things I know
nothing about.

Sadly, I've always found their reviews of items I know about to be
rubbish, which makes me suspect that my judgement of the other reviews.

It was Which?, by saying that UK colour sets were rubbish, caused the
downfall of that industry. A factory in South Wales which was jointly owned
by a japanese firm and a UK one, couldn't sell enough with the japanese
badge, but virtually none with the the uk one. Before long, the japanese
firm bought out their uk partners (who no longer exist).

The Rover 2000 car was slated for poor performance and that got lots of
press coverage. Which? later admitted that when they did the 500 mile
service on the new car, they'd fitted the wrong sparking plugs - but how
many people discovered that?

I have lots of other examples - but I won't bore you.

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Max Demian wrote:

"Andrew" wrote in message
.. .
On 4 Jul 2006 15:44:41 -0700, wrote:

You want "Which?" magazine. No BS. I have never been disappointed by
their recommendations

Yeah, a magazine that does a roundup of PVR's, recommends the Humax,
and doesn't even review the far superior Topfield. Very useful.

I don't think the Topfield is available in ordinary shops.

It is now. From the Toppy.org.uk website:

Selected House of Fraser stores now stock the TF5800 ; presently the
list is Birmingham, Bristol, Camberley, Cardiff, Darlington, Gateshead
Metro Centre, Glasgow, Lakeside Thurrock, Leicester, London Oxford
Street, London Victoria, Manchester, Middlesborough, Plymouth, Reading
(The Oracle), Sheffield Meadowhall, and Beatties in Wolverhampton.
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