lloydee(Harmless) posted this on Sunday, 30th October 2005, 14:31
A similar query to a recent thread - can anyone help! I am looking for suggestions as to which route to travel. Should I go for a PVR, a DVD Recordable or a combo ? I am already on NTL cable, so I don`t need a Freeview connection. I sometimes record on the bedroom video and playback on the living room video. Am I correct in thinking a PVR would not help me here? (ie recordings are not transferable as in video) Whichever route I go, I would need connections (scart?) suggestions. Does one method have better (more) than the other? If I go DVD recordable, should I wait until HDD is more widely available?
Help pleeze!!
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Doomy(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Monday, 31st October 2005, 11:38
IMHO just get a cheap DVD-RAM recorder and wait. NTL will be releasing their own 3 tuner PVR next year, this should interface with the EPG properly. Very few of the avaliable PVR/DVD machines interface with NTL STBs at all without messing about, and AFAIK None of them read the EPG.
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lloydee(Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 3rd November 2005, 15:34
Thanks for the info, Doomy, Is that the case? I was thinking of getting a Sony HXD710 combo. Will this not be compatible with NTL? Thats a bit if a con - if no other machine will play other than NTL`s own make!. Can you educate me here. What does AFAIK mean?
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Doomy(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Monday, 7th November 2005, 09:12
"As Far As I Know."
1) All machines will record and play 2) A few will change the channel of the STB for you. My JVC will not, I have heard that some/most Pannies will work, but you may need an extra RedEye gizmo depending on which NTL Box you have. I dont know about Sony. 3) NONE of them will read the NTL EPG and let you choose what to record easily like Sky+.
