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I have noticed recently that some online retailers have reduced the price of the 9200. I am looking to purchase one in the near future to use along side my excellent 8000 which has worked virtually flawlessly for the last 18 months or so. Still have lots of recordings to watch on the 8000 yet though due to the upgraded HDD so in the mean time I would be grateful if members can list here the best 9200 price they have seen. I am reluctant to give my hard earned cash to Comet due to past dealings with them so any experiences you have had of the retailer in question would also be useful ie delivery time or returning faulty goods, etc.
Anybody been brave enough to try an upgrade to the HDD in their 9200 yet?
Many thanks.
Anybody been brave enough to try an upgrade to the HDD in their 9200 yet?
Many thanks.
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The 160Gb does me fine - I doubt many will bother to upgrade the HDD.
http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=327751
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comet 219.94 web price
http://ws1.hughesdirect.co.uk/productlist.php?cda=productlist&sgroup=DIGITAL.TERRESTRIAL
I bought from them in December - good service
(Where I got mine last year.)
And after we were all told that Sales aren't really cheaper.
It was on sale for £220 but i got them down to £200 without
any fuss. I just asked if they would match their online price.
Good service too.
I presume you mean the Digifusion FVRT200? If so, you can get it a lot cheaper than £179.99. TribalUK have it for £154.49 inc delivery and VAT.
It depends what you are looking for in a PVR. Both are generally solid as PVR's go, however the Humax has a bigger HD and more facilities.
Mark.
Do you really need the extra 80Gb space, Topup TV option, record 2 and watch a 3rd channel, quietness, multiple resume play, picture in/and picture, recodings downloads etc? If not then I its not really essential. But one the other hand if say for example you do want an extra 80Gb hard drive then you probably be willing to pay the £30 for that alone.
Personally, now that I have used 3 Fusion products I would definately pay the extra just for the quality of the pictures and maybe the build quality and user interface/user interaction alone, even if the hard disk was the same size and everything. I dont think i would be going back to Fusions now for main viewing, but I cant say I havent had better than adequate service out of them till I bought a Humax PVR as I'm sure a lot of people will agree. But have no fear with the Fusions I really believe they offer fair value for money. Have you considered the Fusion 145 and the differences to take into account between it and the 200 - as there is another considerable price difference there in itself.
heathrow systems 199.99 inc delivery
edirectory 201 inc del
trilbal 201 inc delivery
247electrical 203 delivered
24electric £203 delivered
martin dawes 204 inc
edfenergyshop £193.83 plus £7 delivery
buy your AV £193.99 £10 delivery
multiregionmagic £199 £6 for next day delivery
hughesdirect £199.99 £6 delivery
superfi 207 inc delive
direct electricals 210 inc delivery
comet 220 inc delivery
Cliff
And lack of chaseplay
Bugs wise there is a list of things the manufacturer will want to look at for this PVR release. OK fine but its good that there isnt ambiguity about these questions with the manufacturer; dialogue is also refreshingly open. The one I find , but suprisingly only occasionally really, is the wrong date stamp on a recording in the playlist when it was set to a daily or weekly timer. What you cant do via software for say a load of wishlists, is things like picture in picture, topup TV ability etc etc and that is the point of the above weighing up process - do you need to pay an extra £30 for these things or would you be just as happy with a cheaper model.
Chase play - cheap shot Boinng :rolleyes: - When I first found this out I alerted potential purchasers in various posts around DS. But after that we all soon found that if we want to watch a programme while its still recording, we can do; so even though Humax will put that in via a dedicated software interface method, I'm not prevented anyway until that time. Again, while Humax can put chase play in, and Fusion may be able to fix all bugs eventually, the manufacturer cant wish in an extra 80gig hard drive or better performaing tuners etc. you will often be stuck with certain things hardware wise.
Sorry, I haven't been following any of the Humax threads for a while but as I understood it, last time I was reading, did you not have to keep the Humax tuned to the channel it was recording in order to watch a recording in progress? If that was the case is then that not just using the buffer?
Sorry if I've missed something but have Humax actually committed to putting in Chase Play? If it's not in the original spec's I'd be surprised at them doing this rather than bug hunting...
hodg100 I am not certain I understand what you are saying. sorry. It is true that one of the ways to watch a programme from the beginning before you have finished recording all of it is use the method you describe using the buffer. The only problem with that method is if you change channel you loose the buffer and you cant do anything else like go into menus, playlist. I prefer the other method because it leaves me comepletely free to watch as much as I want when I want and not be affected by doing something else on the box.
They seem commited to doing both bugs and wishlist stuff and seem happy to communicate their current time plan, though the risk is it does leave them open to critisim if they have delays. Thats the problem with wish list stuff - they arent in the original spec and I guess will need to think about changing spec sheets, marketing stuff given to retailers, amending the manual that goes in every box...
mazed sure, you do two things: using the remote press stop to stop the recording of the programme and press record to record the programme - one after the other. The effect of doing the stop is to send everything that has been recorded of the current programme to the playlist so you can watch whatever you want of it, while the unit is still recording the rest of the programme.
I know for a workaround its easy but thats not to say its not a wishlist item. It would be nice if when a recording starts its entry is put in the playlist at the start not end of the recording, and then be able to just pick the entry for viewing from the playlist. The unit is already able to put an icon next to a recording entry in the playlist so perhaps one for denoting that the entry in a playlist is a recording in progress is all thats needed. Or maybe a colour scheme on the font. Or take the best methods of another PVR and copy it!
Sorry Marc, what I was asking is, what is the other way you can watch a currently recording programme without having to keep 'Tuner 1' the currently watched programme.
Apologies again, I haven't been keeping up
EDIT: Sorry just read the post above - so answer is, you can't really but I suppose it's an adequate workaround
Oh OK yes no worries. The quick stop start method just solves it as a problem so I use that with your machine as sometimes I find the buffer a bit of a bind when compared to my Fusion.