Technika AEDTR160S7

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Clive Page wrote:
In message , "Bill (Adopt)"
writes
As for the proggy lengths I noted, my experience is that
for much of the time these are the actual content lengths.
There seems to be little need to insert padding either
into the pre-amble or at the end of the proggie ..ie that
the digital PDCs seem to be much more accurate, where
available, than were their VHS analogue counterparts where
avaible.

That's good, as this model doesn't seem to have any facility for adding
a padding at either end (except by inserting a timed program manually,
in which case the program name isn't stored in the library of
recordings).

I'm purely guessing that, under Freeview Playback II,
perhaps the 'padding' shouldn't really be needed..?
Not storing the title in manual mode, mind, might be
a bit of an oversight, perhaps a correction in later
OADs..? (Is there a way of writing in your own title
in the manual mode ..ie as the archiving title facility?

Yes, on the whole it seems ok. One other drawback: I measured power
consumption as 19 W in operation, 18 W in standby. This seems a bit
excessive, and hardly worth having a standby mode at all, it seems to
me.

I did it a slight injustice: it takes a few minutes after use for the
disc to stop rotating. After that standby consumption drops to 11 W,
which is the figure I should have quoted. I worked out that this will
cost us about £7.70 over the course of a year, at present electricity
prices, which I suppose isn't too bad.

However it's replacing an old VHS recorder which on standby only used 7
W. Our now rather elderly TV uses 14 W on standby (but we don't leave
it like that for long). All the same, these standby figures all add up,
don't they. The problem with modern devices like the TV recorder is
that you feel the need to leave it on all the time else you don't get
updates to the EPG, and maybe software, which happen overnight.

Yes, indeed, but I wonder just how much of a problem
the power consumption really is? Yes ..there's a
small expense involved, but it may rather put things
in context if we compare it as using the same amount
of power (or less) than a single low power cfl light
source that we're to be required to use from this year
(2008) onward, ie less than one fifth of the power of
the old standard 100w light bulb.

Deduction, btw, suggests that the Technika AEDTR160S7's
standby mode is basically identical to it's fully active
mode, with merely the video/audio links and a section of
it's FL display switched out.

The roughly 7w saving with the hard drive powered down,
that you've noted, will operate whether or not the pvr
is in active or standy mode ..the drive powers down after
a minute or so in each case ..even whilst the User is
still busy instigating a search of or flicking through
the EPG for the next seven or eight days!

Mind, this is all a bit nit-picking ) My guess is
that the Technika AEDTR160S7 is now rapidly becoming
one of the true contenders for the shared crown held
for the moment by Topfield and Humax. At around half
the price or less and with such a comprehensive set
of seemless add-on features working straight out of
the box, there's certainly an awful lot to recommend
it, for all ages and for most users needs ..but then,
such is 'progress'..

...hope interests )

Bill ZFC
btw ..I'm not in the employ of either Technika or Tesco,
although quite happy to claim my 10.00gbp, (or even more!),
should they ever offer.. ;'))

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In message , "Bill (Adopt)"
writes
I'm purely guessing that, under Freeview Playback II,
perhaps the 'padding' shouldn't really be needed..?

In theory, yes.

Not storing the title in manual mode, mind, might be
a bit of an oversight, perhaps a correction in later
OADs..? (Is there a way of writing in your own title
in the manual mode ..ie as the archiving title facility?

Not that I can find.

My guess is
that the Technika AEDTR160S7 is now rapidly becoming
one of the true contenders for the shared crown held
for the moment by Topfield and Humax.
Yes, probably.

By the way, I did some more tests yesterday to record a number of short
programmes with partial or complete overlaps, and only one had the off
time extended too much, and with that I was quick enough to use the info
button to see that someone had been tardy in updating the "current
programme" information. I guess it's probably the fault of the
broadcasting stations when the recorder fails to stop at the right time.
I also found out what happens if the recording on one channel over-runs
the schedule start of another (when you are already using the 2nd tuner
for something else): the second programme doesn't start on time, but it
does start as soon as the conflicting one finishes. I guess that's a
sensible choice on the part of the software designer.

All I'm waiting for now is some hacker working out how to replace its
160 GB disc with a terabyte, or something similar!


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I have had a subtley different problem to this
I set a series record for "The Professionals", but when i got home had a big
load of "rikki lake" different channel different time.

When i looked in the timers list there she was about 10 times !

I tried to record "The Professionals" series again and again my timer log
filled up with "rikki " flaming "lake !

I get my diganl from wenvoe, my box says its s/w version is V.2.7

Any one else had the same trouble ??

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hywel clatworthy wrote:

Any one else had the same trouble ??


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Well I thought he said he sait things up to record one program, and got
another. Sounds like the info was wrong or the box is confused about which
region its on!

Brian

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hywel clatworthy wrote:

Any one else had the same trouble ??


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