Chippy
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| posted on 27/2/07 at 04:08 PM |
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TV recorder/hard drive.
Hi, thinking of changing from our VHS, to a hard drive type recorder. Problem is know absolutely s*d all about this, being electronicaly challenged .
Anybody give me a brief, (in non technical terms), break down of what I should be looking at. Thanks, Ray
To make a car go faster, just add lightness. Colin Chapman - OR - fit a bigger engine. Chippy
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scottc
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| posted on 27/2/07 at 04:15 PM |
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I've got a Humax 9200T and am very pleased with it.
Basically you should look at the size of the Hard Drive, and the number of tuners.
The humax had a 160GB HD and two tuners, which basically means I can in certain cases record two programs and watch a third at the same time.
Think I paid about £200 for it.
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JohnN
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| posted on 27/2/07 at 04:45 PM |
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If you use Sky, get the Sky+ recorder - very simple to programme & use compared to a standard recorder
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nick205
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| posted on 27/2/07 at 05:29 PM |
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I tried a Daewoo one that was pants and got swapped for a Thomson DHD400. Very good so far, twin tuners and a good clear program guide, easy to
set-up and use too. It only has a 40gb hard drive, but to be honest we only use it for pausing live TV and recording the odd film to watch at the
weekend. If you have a DVD recorder you can always archive stuff from the box onto DVD anyway.
A couple of friends with other makes of box have commented that the Thomson one is quieter then theirs too (the noise comes from the internal hard
drive).
Check out http://www.avforums.com/ for useful reviews and info.
As the adverts say it will change the way you watch TV 
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Chippy
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| posted on 27/2/07 at 05:52 PM |
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JohnN
Assume that you have Sky+, what does it work in the way of cost. We do have sky standard. Cheers, Ray
To make a car go faster, just add lightness. Colin Chapman - OR - fit a bigger engine. Chippy
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BenB
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| posted on 27/2/07 at 06:39 PM |
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My brother got my peeps one of those for Chrimbo. Nice bit of kit..... I like the instant rewind / replay action....
quote:
Originally posted by scottc
I've got a Humax 9200T and am very pleased with it.
Basically you should look at the size of the Hard Drive, and the number of tuners.
The humax had a 160GB HD and two tuners, which basically means I can in certain cases record two programs and watch a third at the same time.
Think I paid about £200 for it.
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pinto
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| posted on 27/2/07 at 06:51 PM |
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HUMAX ++++
Had sky + but got fed up with subs
so changed to humax with 160g hard drive
does everything sky + does but no subs (free view channels only but how many do you need)
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jambo
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| posted on 27/2/07 at 06:58 PM |
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simple £180 humax or £230 topfield
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mark chandler
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| posted on 27/2/07 at 08:41 PM |
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My Humax is good quality, I have a feeling that with Sky+ if you stop the subscription they stop the record/pause feature so on principle I would not
buy one from them.
But then I do not like the sky monopoly so would not have thier box anyway.
Regards Mark
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Chippy
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| posted on 27/2/07 at 11:15 PM |
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Thanks guy's, looks like a HUMAX 9200T then, now just got to find where to get one.  Ray
To make a car go faster, just add lightness. Colin Chapman - OR - fit a bigger engine. Chippy
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geoff shep
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| posted on 28/2/07 at 10:58 PM |
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Seconded - or thirded or whatever. Have had a 9200T for a while and still impressed. Plenty of info here
Hummy Forum and software updates available here
Humax.
If it had a DVD recorder built in it would be perfect.
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