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Posted by Mike Ruskai on 11/04/07 18:09
On or about Sun, 4 Nov 2007 00:28:38 -0000 did "djimbo"
<me@my.shadow.net> dribble thusly:
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>"Mike Ruskai" <BUTthannydI@DONTearthlinkLIKE.netSPAM> wrote in message
>news:9appi3heek5dr7986003cmq3k3ator6211@4ax.com...
>>I have had a Sony RDR-HX900 for almost three years now, and because I
>> had to order a new remote (I'm not saying how I broke the old one), I
>> decided to check the market for updated recorders of this type.
>>
>> So I find out that there are no standalone DVR's on the US market
>> anymore. The UK and Australia have new models from Panasonic and
>> other companies, but none are for sale on this side of the ponds.
>>
>> What's the story? Why have these companies dropped out of this market
>> in the US?
>>
>> There seems to be no choice here but to go with TiVo, which has a
>> monthly fee (for what, I don't know, since the device you have to
>> purchase does all the work).
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>Ok I'm not in the US, but why not just programe a multi remote for your DVR?
>if that's all that's wrong with it?
>My guess on it's demise would be beer/coffee spilled in it? (Unless it's
>something totaly weird and un mentionable ;-)
Close. I reached for it from too far away, it slipped and slid from a
stack of books into a glass of wine (full glass, mind you, so I can't
even blame the alcohol).
I pried it apart and cleaned everything with alcohol (the non-drinking
kind), but the ASIC was apparently fried.
>Just help me out for a second, what's a DVR? are we talking DVD recorder?
>or what we call a PVR with hard drive etc.?
Digital Video Recorder (i.e. stores digitized video). Technically,
any DVD recorder is also a DVR, but what I mean by DVR is what you
mean by Personal Video Recorder (though that could apply to a VCR as
well).
I see hard drive recorders all over UK and AU web sites, but none in
the US anymore. It's perplexing.
>(Two countries seperated by a common language)
>If you're suffering with the demise of stand alone DVD recorders, be advised
>that some of the latest PVRs are starting to ship with recorders built in
>(in the UK anyway)..
My Sony unit records to both a hard drive and DVD. It's exactly this
kind of unit which is no longer sold in the US anywhere I can find.
>As for the Tivo, can you not opt out of the fee based programme guide?
They refer to activation on their site, so I'm pretty sure the unit is
a doorstop without the monthly fee.
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