Aldi - Technosonic PVR £99.99 - Freeview

gromituk

virgo17 wrote:

Good luck with the upgrade.

Thanks, but I didn't actually buy (or attempt to buy!) one - I've just been watching this thread with interest.

kenr

I didn't think the software upgrade was released till tomorrow, what version do you have ?

baileyrj

I have the same problem the hard drive keeps spinning once it is started IE when making a recording or on play back The only way I can turn the HD off is to do a reboot, it then runs for a few mins after this then turns off. I wonder with the HD drive running all the time. Would this shorten the life of the hard drive

Rob

salthepal

I have now installed mine and fingers crossed everything seems to be fine. I think the reception is not quite as good as my previous Thomson box, but I can put up with that because of ease of recording.

Lorian

-gonzo- wrote:

The uprgrade was available from 9am this morning...
Ive also noticed that ITV is working much better than before as the sound comes on straight away when channel is changed.
I didnt bother to see what version it was in the first place. It now says V.1.0(UK)D

I just checked - "no upgrade found".

1.0.(UK)D is still the old version, we are hoping for 1.1 tomorrow.

-gonzo-

Lorian wrote:

I just checked - "no upgrade found".

1.0.(UK)D is still the old version, we are hoping for 1.1 tomorrow.

Thanks for that, for some reason I had it in my head it was available today..
Something has definately happend to it though. When it completed the search it didnt say that none were available.. I never got sound on ITV straight away before as it took a while for the sound to come on...
And I was having trouble with BBCi and now its working ok.
Looks like I will be uprading again tomorrow to see what happens.
Perhaps this machine has a mind of its own and works when it wants to. LOL

Robstor

Hi,
I bought one of these for my girlfriend and am having a problem that I have not seen duplicated in the 51 pages posted so far (eek!). All chanels are received fine and the picture is A-OK but if you are recording one chanel then try and view certain other chanels (eg. chanel 5, E4, More 4 amongst others) then the picture on the chanel being watched (CH.5 etc) becomes corrupted and unwatchable. Hit a button to stop recording and the problem clears and the chanel you are watching is OK again. Basically it takes away the dual tuner feature as it means you can;t reliably watch one chanel whilst recording another.

Anyone else had a problem like this? If you are using both tuners does the signal somehow become weaker? (Signal strength in OSD about 75% at all times).

Any feedback gratefully received (excluding "if you really loved her you would have bought her a TIVO" of course) ;o)

Lorian

-gonzo- wrote:

Perhaps this machine has a mind of its own and works when it wants to. LOL

What transimtter are you you using (winter hill?) and are you using a (new/ish) wide band aerial?

Robstor - I don't have that problem.

dc

Robstor some of the problems have been with poor signals because some transmitters have out of band multiplexes like Winter Hill, requiring a wideband aerial. The software update tomorrow is designed to get over that problem, we shall see.

BUT you may have a faulty receiver, as there is a component problem in some receivers because of a manufacturing assembly glitch.

Lorian

dc wrote:

some transmitters have out of band multiplexes like Winter Hill, requiring a wideband aerial.

The others with fillers are:

The Wrekin
Sudbury
Huntshaw Cross and
Dover.