thoughts on this pvr from maplins good/bad ?

tim.... wrote:

The dual tuner Humax PVRs try to leave a tuner free for live viewing,
which sometimes means clipping am overrun if one programme starts at the
same time as another on another channel.
Yep, exactly. It even does this if the recordings are made from standby and
the machine knows that no-one is watching a live recording.

Bloody annoying (and the reason that I won't be buying another one)

It is annoying but happens rarely so I live with it as my Humax 9200T is
otherwise excellent (apart from the lagging/freezing subtitles on
playback). If I see in my scheduled recordings that this is likely to
happen I reocrd an alternative for one of the items or pad one of them
before to ensure two tuners are used (but that one will not then use AR).
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Wilf

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The dual tuner Humax PVRs try to leave a tuner free for live viewing,
which sometimes means clipping am overrun if one programme starts at the
same time as another on another channel.

Yep, exactly. It even does this if the recordings are made from standby
and the machine knows that no-one is watching a live recording.

Bloody annoying (and the reason that I won't be buying another one)

So what PVR will you be buying?

hopefully, when I next need to update there will be better speced versions
of this:

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/11700791/Grundig-GUDB20USB3-Digital-Freeview-Set-Top-Box-3-x-USB-Record-Function/Product.html?&_$ja=tsid:11518%7Ccc:%7Cprd:11700791 %7Ccat:Freeview

tim

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The dual tuner Humax PVRs try to leave a tuner free for live viewing,
which sometimes means clipping am overrun if one programme starts at
the same time as another on another channel.

Yep, exactly. It even does this if the recordings are made from standby
and the machine knows that no-one is watching a live recording.

Bloody annoying (and the reason that I won't be buying another one)

So what PVR will you be buying?

hopefully, when I next need to update there will be better speced versions
of this:

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/11700791/Grundig-GUDB20USB3-Digital-Freeview-Set-Top-Box-3-x-USB-Record-Function/Product.html?&_$ja=tsid:11518%7Ccc:%7Cprd:11700791 %7Ccat:Freeview

Since that's a single tuner model there won't be the problem of allocating
tuners to record.

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Max Demian

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The dual tuner Humax PVRs try to leave a tuner free for live viewing,
which sometimes means clipping am overrun if one programme starts at
the same time as another on another channel.

Yep, exactly. It even does this if the recordings are made from
standby and the machine knows that no-one is watching a live recording.

Bloody annoying (and the reason that I won't be buying another one)

So what PVR will you be buying?

hopefully, when I next need to update there will be better speced
versions of this:

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/11700791/Grundig-GUDB20USB3-Digital-Freeview-Set-Top-Box-3-x-USB-Record-Function/Product.html?&_$ja=tsid:11518%7Ccc:%7Cprd:11700791 %7Ccat:Freeview

Since that's a single tuner model there won't be the problem of allocating
tuners to record.

well no.

But that's one of the things I waiting to be improved :-)

tim

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The dual tuner Humax PVRs try to leave a tuner free for live viewing,
which sometimes means clipping am overrun if one programme starts at
the same time as another on another channel.

Yep, exactly. *It even does this if the recordings are made from
standby and the machine knows that no-one is watching a live recording.

Bloody annoying (and the reason that I won't be buying another one)

So what PVR will you be buying?

hopefully, when I next need to update there will be better speced
versions of this:

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Elec.../Grundig-GUDB2....

Since that's a single tuner model there won't be the problem of allocating
tuners to record.

well no.

But that's one of the things I waiting to be improved :-)

tim

Buy two?

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The dual tuner Humax PVRs try to leave a tuner free for live viewing,
which sometimes means clipping am overrun if one programme starts at
the same time as another on another channel.

Yep, exactly. It even does this if the recordings are made from
standby and the machine knows that no-one is watching a live
recording.

Bloody annoying (and the reason that I won't be buying another one)

So what PVR will you be buying?

hopefully, when I next need to update there will be better speced
versions of this:

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/11700791/Grundig-GUDB20USB3-Digital-Freeview-Set-Top-Box-3-x-USB-Record-Function/Product.html?&_$ja=tsid:11518%7Ccc:%7Cprd:11700791 %7Ccat:Freeview

Since that's a single tuner model there won't be the problem of
allocating tuners to record.

well no.

But that's one of the things I waiting to be improved :-)



I bought one last week from Tesco online for £59.97, it works very well, is
a brilliant idea and does exactly what the manufacturers say, however that
being said I would have willingly paid £99.99 for something that could have
really made an impression on the market, (1) *1080p upscaled HDMI output..
(2) *The ability to format in NTFS is as well as FAT 32.. (3) Twin tuner
units.. (4) The ability to read* and record to SD flash cards with a on
board card slot.. (5) The option of recording and*playing at different
qualities (and therefore increased capacity) including divx mpeg4
compatibility.. and finally although it would not be essential, it would
also be nice to have a beefier 12 volt Power Supply unit that could supply
an 'unpowered' ext USB hard drive.

You may think that I'm expecting far too much for the money but the items
marked with a star (apart from the ability to be able to record) are all
readily available on a nifty little HDMI 1080p media player made by a
company called Sumvision.. Cost of that including remote control £23.00!