Best PVR for older/non-techie people

Dear Adrian C,

I JUST WENT IN TO MY KITCHEN AND SOMETHING REMINDED ME OF YOU. Then I
realised I had misread the bread wrapper and what it actually said was
"Thick cut"



"Adrian C" wrote in message
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Illuminated wrote:
basically obsolete bits of old
junk hence being sold off cheaply on Ebay as you pointed out.


Keep talking the price down then, idiot. I could certainly do with buying
some more!!

FYI TiVo completely controls the freeview box. Ye may as well throw the
freeview remote straight out of the window.

It still remains a very non-techie friendly solution.

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Adrian C



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"Illuminated" wrote in message
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Not a top posting moron you are the f'in moron.

The O.P. wants something easy for elderly/non-techie people to use, e.g.
not having to f--k about setting up and operating two boxes.

So Tivo is not the answer you arrogant F--kwit as no Tivo units have
integrated Freeview tuners as they are basically obsolete bits of old junk
hence being sold off cheaply on Ebay as you pointed out.

I don't even have one and I know that they are good, do your homework and
read up on them before slagging them off, everybody that has one seems to
love it. In this case its possible that the techie person would set it all
up and the elderly person would just be using it, that may not be ideal but
it is a possibility.

Z

"Tim" wrote in message
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jamie powell wrote:
I'm hunting for a PVR suitable for older people (many of them aged
80+), who'll find timed-recording onto VHS difficult after switchover
is completed here.

Has to be a TiVo. By far and away the easiest PVR to use.

Still turn up on eBay regularly. Go for one with a lifetime contract.

I'd rather have a PVR which recorded the MPEG2 stream directly without
re-encoding (which the TiVo units can't do).
Digital TV quality is dire enough to begin with. Also, afaik, TiVos are only
available second hand now?

I'm puzzled as to why the "big brands" (Sony, Panasonic etc) don't make PVRs
yet.
I suppose I could just buy their freeview-enabled DVD recorders, but these
seem less suitable for the purpose really, and they too have the re-encoding
issue.

"Zimmy" wrote in message
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TVonics +1. Easy to use, reliable and the remote also controls the TV and
DVD.

Which model do you have? and how long have you been using it?

I've heard stories of sound sync problems, broken "series link" feature, and
random reboots from some people - have you experienced any of these?

Thanks.

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote

My Topfield fits all that - and is actually easier to use than most VCRs.
For basic record/replay.


I suspect that it doesn't out-of-the-box!
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Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

"airsmoothed" wrote in message
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I bought two Digihome PVRs in the spring ( Vestel T825 units), these
are pretty easy to use, even the technophobe female members of the
household have got the hang of setting up recordings & series links.
The buttons on the remote are pretty small though.

The T825 is the older type, without the "power saving" features, and also
without the TopUpTV-branded software, correct? (the latter is probably a good
thing).

Argos are currently selling a T825 (branded as the Alba ALDTR160) for £99.99 .
However there are reports of them freezing/locking up, the sound randomly
disappearing, the menu navigation becoming sluggish, and series-linked timer
settings disappearing whenever the box is put into standby.

Someone also said that the hard disc spins up every 45mins when the box is in
standby mode, and the noise of this is annoying.

Have you experienced any of these issues?

Thanks.

In article ,
Alan wrote:
My Topfield fits all that - and is actually easier to use than most
VCRs. For basic record/replay.


I suspect that it doesn't out-of-the-box!

It does. The various TAPs tend to add facilities rather than simplify
things. To record a prog not yet on all you have to do is find it in the
EPG and double click on OK. Don't think any VCR could be set that easily.

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*Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

"jamie powell" wrote in message
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I'm puzzled as to why the "big brands" (Sony, Panasonic etc) don't make
PVRs yet.

?? They do. I have a Sony one in addition to my TiVo. The Sony is so user
unfriendly I hardly ever use it now.

Tim

On Nov 19, 5:53*pm, "jamie powell" wrote:
I'm puzzled as to why the "big brands" (Sony, Panasonic etc) don't make PVRs
yet.
I suppose I could just buy their freeview-enabled DVD recorders, but these
seem less suitable for the purpose really, and they too have the re-encoding
issue.

If by 'PVR' you mean a Freeview HDD recorder then they do all make
them ( all single digital tumer though); if you mean specifically
something with TiVo's ability to work out what you might like to watch
and record it anyway, then agreed, there are none to my knowledge. It
is suprising none of the 'big boys' seem able to compete with the
likes of Humax in the PVR field.

"Tim Downie" wrote in message
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"jamie powell" wrote in message
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I'm puzzled as to why the "big brands" (Sony, Panasonic etc) don't make
PVRs yet.

?? They do. I have a Sony one in addition to my TiVo. The Sony is so user
unfriendly I hardly ever use it now.


Which model Sony? The only Sony PVR I've heard of was a rebadged Beko of all
things!