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    Videographic recording and playback apparatus

    One is considering, alongside the replacement of our cathode ray tube television set with a modern Liquid Crystal Device, the purchase of some modern system for the viewing of pre-recorded televisual programmes and yet more Hungarian biology films.

    Given that one owns a ‘DVD player’ which one never uses, and which is malfunctioning by offering me a ‘menu choice’ not described in the instruction manual when I attempt to play back the Pixies' Doolittle, but one wishes to continue utilizing one’s existing ‘woofer’ and mini-speakers, which are of some considerable quality, one wishes to have an ‘integrated’ system of televisual pleasure and recording facilities.

    Should one opt for ‘Empee three’, ‘Blue Raymond’ (I think that’s the kind of film my neighbour watches), or some other modern technological marvel?

    One important functional requirement is considerable ease of use; I have no desire for complicated installation procedures or configuration processes, seeing as I spend my weekdays with dysfunctional electronic apparatus.
    Last edited by Mich the Tester; 2 March 2010, 16:30.
    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

    #2
    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Oh Dear.

    Good luck with that.

    I need a PhD to make a recording on my systems these days.
    I am a man. I do not read instruction manuals. I screw things to the wall, plug them into the mains and expect them to work. If they don’t I get upset and hit them.
    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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      #3
      Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
      I am a man. I do not read instruction manuals. I screw things to the wall, plug them into the mains and expect them to work. If they don’t I get upset and hit them.
      Best not become a parent then.

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        #4
        Speak to chef, he'll build one for you.
        "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

        Norrahe's blog

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          #5
          Humax

          Plug in the power. Plug in the aerial/satellite cable.

          Away you go...
          "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
          - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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            #6
            Originally posted by PRC1964 View Post
            Best not become a parent then.
            I know. Lady Tester and I agree on that one. There shall be no Testersprog.
            And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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              #7
              Sky+
              Coffee's for closers

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                #8
                Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
                Sky+
                With massive dish in Hollandia & address in UK for the bills.
                ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
                  With massive dish in Hollandia & address in UK for the bills.
                  Just lay the cables across the sea, can't be that far

                  anyway, haven't they got anything similar in NL?

                  EDIT:
                  http://www.skydigibox.nl/faq.php
                  Coffee's for closers

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
                    Just lay the cables across the sea, can't be that far

                    anyway, haven't they got anything similar in NL?

                    EDIT:
                    http://www.skydigibox.nl/faq.php
                    Some regions have been sentenced to the UPC cable company. Quite what hideous crime those people committed to deserve this I don’t know. We have been saddled with ‘Ziggo’, who are nearly as bad.
                    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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