Telewest TV Drive

I got my TVDrive installed today, First on the list at 8:20 this morning! lucky I was first because my box was faulty so I have the next customers box. He only had 2 jobs and 2 boxes :) anyway...

It works great, menus are faster and the recording features are nice.

I dont know if Sky+ has this but it has a 'record series' function when it will auto record any eps in that series, it's quite clever too, the girlfriend likes Charmed, it's on constantly throughtout the day/night, they are all mixed up between different seasons, the latest season is on Thursday nights so she chose the series and it asked if she only wanted to record season 8 eps. It also has a 'skip back 8secs function'

Been watching a few HD eps through Teleport, they are pretty nice from what I've read some have been upconverted to HD spec whereas 'Pride' is proper HD, it looks stunning.

It does have a few issues which are being resolved:
1) When HDMI is plugged in sometimes the image is not centre (can only be adjusted if your TV has adjustment)
2) In Component/HDMI some channels/programs are only 4:3 and doesnt auto stretch but does when scart is used
3) Optical sound currently only uses 2 channels not proper 5.1

It's still early days and I'm sure it will all be resolved asap.
 
Sky+ does have record series btw.

But anyway, we're getting this Telewest effort installed next Saturday after having Sky+ since it first came out, basically we've had enough of the Sky boxes ****ing up and getting charged for call outs / repairs / new boxes etc We nearly changed about 4months ago but when we phoned up to leave Sky **** one and sent us a new box FOC.

It's going to cost us £7 less a month (got smallest BB and phone line) over Sky+ and that's with the full TV package. Looking forward to seeing what it's like, liking all these films you can watch.
 
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