Donzo Bonzo
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- My Satellite Setup
- Humax and Echostar receivers, Dragon, two dishes, one fixed 100cm dish pointing at Hotbird, and a 90cm motorised dish; plus a rubbish DVD recorder and cool DVD players, and lots of cables!! Oh, yeah, and a video recorder - best invention yet!!
My video recorder packed up today. I took it to a shop to be repaired, and when he quoted me £50 for a repair, I took it home and put a hammer through it.
I then rang my catalogue and ordered a new Nicam VCR for only £49.
Many people will wonder why I am still into video when the DVD market, both players and recorders, is exploding...
The reason is although I have a Phillips DVD recorder, I rarely use it because it's so unreliable. It misses frames out and sometimes there are errors on the discs.
I nearly always record my favourite TV shows to video first, and then if I want to transfer them to DVD, I can. I sometimes do this with my stand alone DVD recorder, but most of the time I run an analgoue feed to my pc and convert to DVD then burn using my pc's DVD recorder.
My point is, I have had more than four DVD recorders on loan from catalogues, and all of them have have been crap. I have returned them all, they're so unreliable.
Nothing beats videotape. I think it'll be around for at least another 10 years!!
I then rang my catalogue and ordered a new Nicam VCR for only £49.
Many people will wonder why I am still into video when the DVD market, both players and recorders, is exploding...
The reason is although I have a Phillips DVD recorder, I rarely use it because it's so unreliable. It misses frames out and sometimes there are errors on the discs.
I nearly always record my favourite TV shows to video first, and then if I want to transfer them to DVD, I can. I sometimes do this with my stand alone DVD recorder, but most of the time I run an analgoue feed to my pc and convert to DVD then burn using my pc's DVD recorder.
My point is, I have had more than four DVD recorders on loan from catalogues, and all of them have have been crap. I have returned them all, they're so unreliable.
Nothing beats videotape. I think it'll be around for at least another 10 years!!