On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:44:32 GMT, Lobster wrote:

What about all these downloadable programming guides etc? Are you
always locked in to have to pay a monthly sub, plus daily phone
calls, on top of the initial purchase price?

The Philips HDD and DVD burner device uses a free EPG that it
downloads each night from a teletext stream carried by ITV1.

I'm also interested in this sort of device, HDD to avoid the tape
hunting for "free space", EPG to record all eps of Y programme, DVD
burner to archive off stuff you want to keep. Price tag is a bit steep
though over =A3300 or there abouts.

Next down are the DVD recorders at about =A3150, I guess if they can
burn a rewriteable DVD then the archiving side is taken care of and
you can reuse the DVDs but you then end up hunt the DVD with free
space...

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail