I have ps3 and plat TV. However it fails to pick up some chanels for some reason.
Channels work fine directly or via fox tell.
Just seeing if anyone recommend decent pvr which work. Surprisingly difficult.
PVR he with 500GB or 1TB drive
yjun355 on 09/09/2014 - 23:43
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Is that play in HD?
I got a Grundig 1tb.
Very slow , very frustrating and the only thing you can be sure of is if you really, really want something recorded, it will fail.I think the 1tb drive is too big and is slowing it down.
On top of that, stations are deliberately misleading in the program guide supposedly to mess this type of unit up.
Just got Foxtel so will be trying their recordable unit. If that's crap I'm backgrading to the old 200gb Topfield.
Heard great things about TiVo, but hard to get.
I saw grubdug on eBay. Thanks for tip. I'll skip that.Topfield does cone up.
Maybe need to get 500gb drive then. 200 is probably too small.
Any particular model in top field?
I have an old Topfield I got used on Ebay. Only thing is it doesn't have a record series feature which is really handy with the networks program chaos these days. The downside of the record series seems to be conflicts, you end up with the same show on multiple channels and that's particularly where the mine freaks out and goes on strike.
What I look for in a pvr now is the epg. Is the channel list customisable and is it easy to navigate and record from.
Many set tops and some tvs have a built in pvr, you just to supply a usb drive. The handy thing there is if you fill it up you can just swap it out.
I have a highlander HDMI setop box and I use my USB sticks and HDD to record shows and use it on my laptop to watch the shows I record. VLC player plays it back perfect, no need to view long ads, just skip it. I bought mine 2years ago online on eBay for $59 delivered.