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AndysDad

If you want to make sure a good freeview signal is available ask either a neighbour or a reputable aerial installer.

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AndysDad wrote: »

If you want to make sure a good freeview signal is available ask either a neighbour or a reputable aerial installer.

Freeview coverage checker is available online here;
http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/mytvregion

Moto2

macman wrote: »

Where do you put the hard drive in a slimline TV chassis?

The board on the left is an Intel 520 series SSD

davemurgatroyd

And how many times can you erase data on an SSD drive in order to write new data to it? Industry quotes vary between 2,000 to 3,000 and 5,000 to 10,000 cycles (depending on which technology of flash memory used)- not the best idea for PVR use.

Cycrow

davemurgatroyd wrote: »

And how many times can you erase data on an SSD drive in order to write new data to it? Industry quotes vary between 2,000 to 3,000 and 5,000 to 10,000 cycles (depending on which technology of flash memory used)- not the best idea for PVR use.

the write cycles are per cell, not for the whole drive.
the drives are smart enough to balance the writes across the whole drive so it doesn't use the same cells each time.

many people use SSD's as thier main drive in a pc/laptop, which includes the swap file which is constantly being written to (more so than any PVR will do)