Re: PVR - Toppy or Humax or what?


"JP" <junkmailhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Oct 13, 4:34 am, Peter <pe...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:01:30 +0100, Ian

<use...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(sorry - fanboy mode: OFF)

No apology needed - some helpful comments there. In particular, I like
the sound of these control timers. Thank you.

But I still have questions...

How reliable is it? Does it ever fail to record when told to (eg, two
simultaneous recordings on different MUXs, or particular channels)?
Does it ever lock up for no apparent reason, and require a hard boot?
These are all problems with my Panasonic PVR.

Does it require the use of the 'colour' keys when you might expect to
use, say, 'OK'? (This might sound trivial, but I use a universal
remote in preference to having about ten on the table by the sofa, and
it's fiddly to get at the keys I've programmed for those on the URC.)

What's the picture quality like? (Since my original posting, I've seen
a report that suggests that it ain't too good.)

Thank you.

Peter.

Many more TAPs' exist and are growing by the day, in fact the Toppy
community also fixes known bugs before Topfield! so users can download
fixes very rapidly making this one of the most stable PVR's on the
market today
I'd love to know where you've seen a report suggesting that a Toppy's
picture quality ain't too good. I've never seen any reports critical
of it's picture quality, in fact the opposite.
Personally speaking I can't differentiate it from broadcast quality.

Surely it depends what you're comparing it with. If you're comparing the
recorded output from a PVR with it's own "live" output I would expect them
to be identical. If you compare two boxes then you will doubtless see
differences.


.

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