Personal Video Recorders now under £50

dawgwalker

I bought Digihome 80gb twin tuner(watch one channel record another) from Dabs for about £55 inc p&p. FANTASTIC, so far works just fine and is Totally SILENT when off but not at mains, unlike sky & virgin + boxes which are noisy & virgins wonderful halo that lights up the room at night as well on standby! will certainly get another to replace cable altpgether. Thanks for original posting!

dawgwalker

Just reading other threads. This also downloads something at 3am, but only for few minutes with the option to turn it off in the menue I think. I am light sleeper & sometimes hear it & have lost picture for few minutes only when have been watching tv at that time.

Halifax_sux

i'm thinking of buying the humax. does anyone know if you can copy files from the hd of the pvr to a pen drive plugged into the usb port? e.g. to transfer files to a pc. my tv is over 25 feet from my pc and i don't fancy wires across the room. plus it would be handy if you record things for friends.

IClaudius

I have BT vision and it's fantastic.

80hours recording time, £30 one off fee, no subsription for Freeview channels, record and pause and rewind live tv, opt in to kids/tv or sport pakckages if you want (£6 a month per package and you can opt in and out on a monthly basis - NO 12 month contract!!!!). movies on demand from £1.99 to £2.99

you do need BT Broadband though for it to work. I love it, and most of all, it works on power adaptors so your tv doesn;t need to be near the hub for the Vision box to work!

quattroken

You need a PC to transfer files from the Humax - because that's where the transfer application is executed. You can write directly to a pen drive in another USB port on the PC.

Halifax_sux

quattroken wrote: »

You need a PC to transfer files from the Humax - because that's where the transfer application is executed. You can write directly to a pen drive in another USB port on the PC.

you misunderstand.
i want to copy files FROM the [humax] pvr TO a pc using a pen drive,
i.e.
put pen drive into the usb slot of the pvr and write/copy a programme to it
then transfer pen drive to usb slot on pc and read it.

petersandyglen

I-LOV-MONEY wrote: »

My telly is analogue. So if I bought this box, will it receive the freeview digital channels, and can I record off them, without having the telly on?

Ta.

It all depends on whether your local transmitter has gone digital. The freeview box will make you T,V. recieve digital signals automatically.
Petersandyglen.

Woby_Tide

Halifax_sux wrote: »

you misunderstand.
i want to copy files FROM the [humax] pvr TO a pc using a pen drive,
i.e.
put pen drive into the usb slot of the pvr and write/copy a programme to it
then transfer pen drive to usb slot on pc and read it.

they understood your query and answered correctly, the Humax transfer requires an application that runs on a PC to initiate the transfer of files, there is nothing in the firmware on the box to 'push' files over USB. The other option is an IDE modification which speeds up the transfer but still requires a PC/laptop

fortythree

This product claims to allow any pvr to be usable with the sky system - a bit like a sky + system for £29.99. Has anyone tried one of these? do they work?

http://www.bluedelta.co.uk/phantom+.html

Woby_Tide

fortythree wrote: »

This product claims to allow any pvr to be usable with the sky system - a bit like a sky + system for £29.99. Has anyone tried one of these? do they work?

http://www.bluedelta.co.uk/phantom+.html

it won't turn a PVR into a Sky+ system as all it's doing is what most PVR's already do, control recordings via the onscreen EPG's. All it allows is older model (i.e. Analogue) DVD-R/VCR's that don't have an EPG to be controlled and change channel in a 'simpler'