On 28/07/2020 17:00, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

How do you know what sales would be like without having a suitable
product? Can hardly have been rocket science to redesign for HD. Everyone
else managed it.

Topfield abandoned the UK market and support for their boxes long before
people were buying HD boxes. The boxes referenced in this thread were
maybe designed 15+ years ago. Topfield SD products would have gone to
landfill very many years ago if it hadn't been customer supplied
hacks/fixes, and not just one or two fixes.

The out-of-the-box product itself wasn't that spectacular. What made the
difference was the many third party software applications it could run
and possibly Mystuff software which completely changed the GUI and added
very many features that few "commercial" boxes of today can match.

Some other companies making SD boxes are no longer around and many of
their products went to landfill because the technology was wrong when
the broadcasters adopted different parts of the digital standards.

Anyone still using a Setpal box?



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