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Satelite PVR's getting cheaper
I see that Maplin are offering a Free Satelite PVR, twin tuner, 350gb for £179.99.
See link - http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?moduleno=229148 Whilst this is not a "proper" Freesat box, it shows the way the market is going. DTT receivers were hundreds of pounds when they first came on the market, but can be had for under one hundred pounds now (£75 at ASDA). They also do an HD Sat box with USB PVR for £129.99. Rather than accept the buggy Freesat offerings available for £279 now, I will be waiting till I can buy a "Finished" Freesat PVR for under £150. How long do you think I will have to wait? |
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Rather than accept the buggy Freesat offerings available for £279 now, I will be waiting till I can buy a "Finished" Freesat PVR for under £150. How long do you think I will have to wait?
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Young enough to have bought my first pocket calculator in the seventies for £80, when they first came out. The same spec now would be a fiver - or much, much less if you factor in inflation.
Young enough to remember Harrods displaying the first Flat Screen TVs at £20000. The same spec now costs £500 - £600. You can see where this going.............. |
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I can say with some confidence that it won't happen in the next 18 months at least, not saying in 18 months it will get that cheap, but based on the numbers I have it won't be where you want it to be inside 2010. Unless A.N Other vendor manages it... I doubt it though.
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I take it you're very young?, even so the expectancy isn't good.
Which is a much shorter wait than that for Freeview! |
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Unless A.N Other vendor manages it... I doubt it though.
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They'd have to be lucky enough to get approval from Freesat first
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The mechanism for receiving the Freesat EPG is copyrighted, if someone derives another mechanism to receive the EPG then they might be able to use it, but again the information contained (event descriptions) is copyright.
Plus, it would be difficult to sell a product which receives the EPG but doesn't use the name freesat. The Fortec products do receive some sort of EPG data, but they have yet (to my knowledge) to get significant volume. |
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I see that Maplin are offering a Free Satelite PVR, twin tuner, 350gb for £179.99.
See link - http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?moduleno=229148 Whilst this is not a "proper" Freesat box, it shows the way the market is going. DTT receivers were hundreds of pounds when they first came on the market, but can be had for under one hundred pounds now (£75 at ASDA). They also do an HD Sat box with USB PVR for £129.99. Rather than accept the buggy Freesat offerings available for £279 now, I will be waiting till I can buy a "Finished" Freesat PVR for under £150. How long do you think I will have to wait? So £20 price reduction in two half years and only 70 Gb HDD size increase - a long, long way to go for twin tuner HD PVRs at £150 |
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No series link, no HD. This is worse value than paying the extra £100 for the Humax.
Wouldnt surprise me if it was far more buggy too. |
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I can say with some confidence that it won't happen in the next 18 months at least, not saying in 18 months it will get that cheap, but based on the numbers I have it won't be where you want it to be inside 2010. Unless A.N Other vendor manages it... I doubt it though.
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Am I the only person worried you'd be buying a lemon of a PVR?
I'll get my coat... |
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hillel,
I don't worry too much, plus I currently can't read every post anyway. To be honest I also don't read every post as I used to because I would just be repeating myself. I leave it to those on here to be informed by my previous ramblings and in tern comment. I think it works for now, if I find an interesting point or see something heading in the wrong direction I might comment. On topic: Buy cheap, pay twice. Bob |
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hillel,
I don't worry too much, plus I currently can't read every post anyway. etc etc On topic: Buy cheap, pay twice. Bob I paid a packet for an HDR that fails to communicate correctly with anything via HDMI! There is cheap, as in shoddy, and cheap as in low cost. PS A tern is a bird. |
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Mine fails to communicate too but we will have 2 manufacturers blaming each other for it.
Hardware wise, the HDR is very, very good. Software wise, its very bad and its taken a long time to fix. But at least it can be fixed. |
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Mine fails to communicate too but we will have 2 manufacturers blaming each other for it.
Hardware wise, the HDR is very, very good. Software wise, its very bad and its taken a long time to fix. But at least it can be fixed. |
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The mechanism for receiving the Freesat EPG is copyrighted, if someone derives another mechanism to receive the EPG then they might be able to use it, but again the information contained (event descriptions) is copyright.
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I bought a "cheap" Toshiba LCD rather than an "expensive" Panasonic mainly because Which? says Toshys were far more reliable.
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I paid a packet for an HDR that fails to communicate correctly with anything via HDMI! |
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It CAN, but will they?
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Never had any problems at all with the Humax PVR, they have all worked perfectly on every set we've tried them on.
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