Info and forum posts by 'MICKEY1'

RE: HP Photosmart D5160 £25 delivered

Thanks for thread, mine arrived a couple of days ago,
Cheers!! 8)

Motorola PAYG phone on Orange £9

Just picked one up for £9 (you get a £1 credit when you register sim!) from asda to use as a spare in work, put my orange contract sim in and works fine.

RE: Windows 98 SE

Thanks to all who replied,

I am running my old computer through a kvm switch with my XP side by side and was just going to try and use it to burn itunes etc.

Managed to change the drive allocation letter in Device manager but soon as USB hard drive was plugged in also it would not recognise both the dvd burner and hard drive at same tome.

Thinking I may invest in a new wi-fi laptop with dvd burner and forget the old stuff......

It just seems a shame as it cost a fortune a few years ago!!!

Windows 98 SE

Was trying to connect a usb dvd burner and my external usb hard drive to my old pc but only one or the other is recognised? When I look in my computer, but if I connect my mp3 player as well (usb hub) that is recognised as another removable drive.

Why does the dvd and the hard drive want to share the same drive letter and conflict?
Any help appreciated.

RE: SKY+

yes, phone 08701942096 and quote `FEBPLUS`

Free sky+ box free installation and 3 months half price,
Got 3 cards as I am existing customer with these details on.
SORRY IGNORE THIS HADNT READ THREAD CORRECTLY

This item was edited on Thursday, 16th February 2006, 11:32

RE: Need some info about the heads in a vcr

A good trick that helps sometimes is to fully fast forward the tape in the new machine and then let it rewind on the new machine before playing.
I think some machines put differnt ``tension`` on the tape which can sometimes cause problems. It used to work on rental tapes that had been in different players.

Sky + Problem?

Has anyone had problems with their sky+ ``jumping`` and ``freezing`` on playback of recorded programmes and sometimes sound goes off for a second or two??
Any advice ideas?

Cheers.

External hard drive as IPOD backup

Any advice greatly appreciated. I have bought an 80gb USB external hard drive and want to put my itunes onto this off my C drive and when complete delete the 15gb already in itunes on the Cdrive. I tried just a couple of tracks first and even with the new external drive not connected as soon as it is, and I open itunes on it (j-drive) the songs have gone from it too......................am I being dosy and do I need to do some other PC trickery to not delete my itunes off both!!
Thanks in advance.

RE: 2-way radios - £8.73!!!!!

Have just reserved some for collection 20th of july but small print does say price is price on day of pick up. IE.may not be on offer..................................................

Amstrad Sky Box RF Tuning

I have an Amstrad DRX300 Skybox and want to change the RF output from 69 to another channel. I can get to the menu for RF outputs but when I change the channel output to say 23 and press `select` the TV goes blue screen and a 5 minute countdown begins and then TV turns off. When I turn it back on it has defaulted to RF output 69.


How do I save the new setting??

Help appreciated thanks for any replies.

Help! Sky into Plasma

I have a 42" Panasonic Viera to replace a 20" televideo in the bedroom. My problem is the sky is fed as an extra link up to the bedroom with a "magic eye" and works fine on the 20" portable but the Panasonic will not tune auto or manual so that I can view the sky channel on the Plasma??
Any suggestions appreciated.

RE: Hack for Yamaha DVX-S80

Hi maxsim_s,
Is there a hack here? It is mostly foreign script.

Hack for Yamaha DVX-S80

Anyone know of a remote hack for this dvd player please. Apologies if this has already been addressed, had a look through hacks with no luck.

Cheers.

RE: Very cheap TV`s going fast

Hi searcher,
I have got the Toshiba 32 inch widescreen model No. 32W33B and it came with a Toshiba DVD player No. SD-230E, and a tv stand,

Just set it all up and so far am impressed,

Regards,

Mickey1 :)

P.S. It was £319 plus £25 ``special delivery```

This item was edited on Monday, 7th June 2004, 13:21

RE: Very cheap TV`s going fast

Thanks for original posting..................
I ordered an ``out of stock`` 32 inch Toshiba before going on hols for two weeks mid May and came back to 7 messages from Excell saying they want to arrange delivery!!!!

After lots of messing with phone calls and arranging dates it was set for today 7-6-04.

After reading all postings on this thread I didn`t hold out much hope but then at 08-50 this morning a DHL van pulled up with my Tosh and DVD player.........................

There is still hope...........................good luck everyone!!!!

Mickey1.

RE: CHEEP MULTI-REGION PLAYERS YOU CAN GET LOCALY

Yes I bought the LG Logix (remote hack on this site) from sky buy and it`s now been reduced further with five reasonable dvd`s included for £34.99 inclusive off post and packing. Dvd`s are :-
Striptease
American Pie
US Marshalls
Blade Runner
Seven
It is a big player but looks quality.................

Pacific Radio Cassette CD player boombox £17-50

Asda are selling these at present and its a really good little unit for that price. Got one for my utility area as its small and neat...................in fact at that price you could take one on holiday and throw it away!! People pay that much for a couple of packets of cigs and a magazine to take on holiday!!!

RE: Canon digi cam

I bought the Canon one off Amazon for £17. It shows it as grey in the photo but it came in a nice black suede effect. Only big enough for camera which is what I wanted. You have to carry spare batterys in pockets..................................

Mickey1

RE: Canon digi cam

Sorry to hear of your problems Top Gunner, that sort of carry on is normally how my transactions go.................................wether it is a delivery or I just picked the box up with the one important bit missing inside!!!

At least you won`t be disappointed with the camera.Good Luck.!

RE: DVD Home Theatre £99

If you can stretch go for the Yamaha DVXS60 at Empire Direct for £149

Bargain PC

ACER Base unit (speakers keyboard and mouse........no monitor thats £99 extra) In Comet has 40GB hard drive 2.6Ghz processor DVD rom and CD Copier, stylish case with aluminium trim and my favourite..........a built in 6 type photo card reader.
Operating system is Windows XP.£300

RE: Canon digi cam

Hi Top Gunner...................................Delivery took about a week but it was free!! In retrospect I would get the £3 new to Amazon voucher and pay the extra for a faster delivery,but I am pleased with the camera.

RE: Canon digi cam

Thanks for posting thread................mine arrived yesterday and also a 128mb CF card. Been testing it in work today and think it is a brilliant little camera and build quality is excellent, movie mode is good too.recommended at this price!!!

Yamaha DVXS60 DVD Home Theatre System £149

Can`t believe it`s only £149 at Empire Direct!!

Gone in 60 seconds

£6-47 in Asda along with some other titles .

RE: Beko 17 inch LCD TV for £329.99 (limited stock) from Argos

To spend less than £300 in my case on non widescreen tv........It`s called personal preference and choice!!!!

This item was edited on Wednesday, 21st January 2004, 18:17

RE: Packard Bell Wireless Keyboard and Mouse

Yes mouse goes to `sleep` after period of inactivity to save battery life, just press any button to wake it up, mine works fine,

Packard Bell Wireless Keyboard and Mouse

Wireless keyboard and Optical mouse Reduced from £84-95 to £34-99. In black and silver from Currys, Nice piece of kit almost like a laptop keyboard and looks good with my silver Beko 17" monitor TV.
Update your PC for not very much.
http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0867445461.1074633028@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciadckgghjmdjcflgceggdhhmdfif.0&page=Product&sku=827107&category_oid=-11061

RE: Beko 17 inch LCD TV for £329.99 (limited stock) from Argos

In pc mode tv speakers are muted. You cannot use tv for pc audio. You have to use pc speakers as well as tv.

RE: 17" LCD TV £299

All you people with questions on sound when using pc mode read my thread from 14 November last year.