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On Sep 14, 12:12 am, John Rumm wrote:
DubDriver wrote:
"DubDriver" wrote in message
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"bugbear" wrote in message
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Michael Chare wrote:
"bugbear" wrote in message
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Having found the impressive website for the Topfield,
I'm a little worried. I mean, it's all very impressive,
but I wanted a PVR, not a new hobby ...

It appears to be a very impressive,
and widely recommended machine.

But is it usable WITHOUT all
the customisation and tweaking?

BugBear

Yes, but the tweaks do help.

Dixons are selling the 250GB version for £219 + £5 delivery if you enter
a promotion code of TOP30
http://www.dixons.co.uk/product.php?...amp_id=ppc_dvd
Thanks for that.

My research (not much) shows John Lewis have it at 249
with 2 year warrenty.

http://www.johnlewis.com/Technology/...wing/DVD+and+D....

I'd (much...) rather deal with John Lewis that Dixons.
Other may make different choices.
Dixons don't have black, silver fromwww.firebox.com
£259.95 + £3.95 delivery
£7 off voucher
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deal/12152...rebox-com-mini
Go through Quidco for 10% off
Total (I think) £227.65

Meant to say Dixons *only* have black

£209 at Empire Direct for black or silver (160GB) or £245 for the 250.
(don't buy the small one!)


Don't buy from ED, their service sucks.
Try Turbosat they often will price match if you speak nicely to them.

Or SVP.

It's only when things go wrong do you find how/good or bad an online
retailer are.
ED are the pits.

I bought my Topfield from www.firebox.com

It's only worth doing this if you go via www.quidco.com since that
saves 10% off the £259 price

brightside S9 wrote:

Some companies have tried to weasel out of hardware warrenties
on PC's and laptops because people have installed Linux,
so I felt the question worth asking.

You mean like this:-
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33819/118/

A "misunderstanding" according to DSG (if you believe that):

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/13/pc_world_linux/


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I bought my Topfield from www.firebox.com

It's only worth doing this if you go via www.quidco.com since that
saves 10% off the £259 price

.... plus the £7 off code you can get from
http://www.firebox.com/index.html?di...ays1&af f=512

In article , Brightside S9
wrote:
Some companies have tried to weasel out of hardware warrenties
on PC's and laptops because people have installed Linux,
so I felt the question worth asking.

You mean like this:-*
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33819/118/

That's absolutely nuts, considering PC World actually sell copies of
Linux in their stores.

Rod.

John Rumm wrote:

Some companies have tried to weasel out of hardware warrenties
on PC's and laptops because people have installed Linux,

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33819/118/

A "misunderstanding" according to DSG (if you believe that):

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/13/pc_world_linux/

It's easy to see how the misunderstanding would arise, though. Once
they'd repaired the machine, they'd have to test that it was working,
and that'd mean switching it on and doing standard tests from Windows.
It was just the belief the Linux *permanently* voided the warranty
that'd have been the misunderstanding.

When I took my laptop back to Evesham Micros, they warned me that any
data might be lost and the hard drive restored to factory default. This
seems to be the standard in the industry. So you need to have a working
backup system, or you're asking for trouble.

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On 13/09/2007, bugbear wrote in message
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bugbear wrote:
Having found the impressive website for the Topfield,
I'm a little worried. I mean, it's all very impressive,
but I wanted a PVR, not a new hobby ...

It appears to be a very impressive,
and widely recommended machine.

But is it usable WITHOUT all
the customisation and tweaking?

OK. The consensus is "no"

That really isn't true. Remember that you're asking on a usenet forum.
To be smart enough to post here, even by Google Groups, you must be the
kind of techie who loves fiddling with electronic devices. And therefore
you're the kind of person who is likely to have TAPs installed whether
they're needed or not.

I'm a techie kind of person. I've experimented with several TAPs but
ended up not finding any of them worth the trouble. So my Topfield has
been running TAP-free for over a year and I'm extremely happy with it.

Simon.
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John Rumm wrote:
Jukka Aho wrote:

I wonder why they implemented it this way on the Topfield. The
Dreambox (DM 7025) does overlaps with a single tuner. After all, the
demuxer only needs to duplicate the data (coming from a single tuner)
during the time of overlap so that the overlapping segment ends up in
both files. There is no technical need for two tuners as it is the
same mux and even the same channel.

This is more a function of MyStuff rather than Toppy itself I expect.

ISTR it's a deeper problem (or limitation) within the the Toppy itself ? I
find it a nuisance.
I don't recall the same limitation with Sky+ when I had that ?

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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:09:54 +0100, bugbear
wrote:

But is it usable WITHOUT all
the customisation and tweaking?

Yes, it is as useable (possibly more) than a Humax. But an hours work
of installing and configuring MyStuff to your tastes will save you
many hours (days!) in the long run scheduling programs to record.
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In message , Andrew
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:09:54 +0100, bugbear
wrote:

But is it usable WITHOUT all
the customisation and tweaking?

Yes, it is as useable (possibly more) than a Humax. But an hours work
of installing and configuring MyStuff to your tastes will save you
many hours (days!) in the long run scheduling programs to record.

Minutes configuring some of the other taps will achieve the same thing


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