Tea? (Part 2)

[Speicher]

On second thoughts, 1360 pages is just part one. That was archived and there is a further 500 pages of this thread, as in part two.

At 15 posts per page that is ... er um about 30,000 posts. It will feel like 300,000 if you read them all.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Spiecher - Are you positeave you haven't left any definitions off your list?

 

[Speicher]

no

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Ah righty ho - I forgot you are omniscient

 

[Speicher]

Spiecher - Are you positeave you haven't left any definitions off your list?

no

Saying "No" meant that I am not positive (that I haven't left off any definitions) and that I may have left some off. You are welcome to add any of your own.

 

[Renard]

Sounds great BJB. Have fun.

Teas all round for whoever's up.

Thanks Helen. I saw something rather strange today which I will post about on the main board.

 

[potsy]

I am sure it would be very boring to read all 1360 pages....just continue to join in.

I am up to December 2007 think it could be a late one for me

Just put Film4+1 on and am now watching 'Die Hard'

 

[potsy]

Morning tea folk

Bacon buttie and a cuppa has just been wolfed down, may have had a couple of hash browns on the side as well

Gawd knows how cold it is out there but the forecast was for minus 10c-12c overnight, have just cleared all the snow off the car that has been there since Friday(?) 3 more working days for me and I still have no presents bought

 

[ianrauk]

Morning Pots...what do you mean may have? Either do or don't... simples...

Bleedin' ffffffrrrreeeeesing this morning.. far too cold for the Sarf East.. No cycle commute today which is depressing, made even worse that I had to get a train with the great unwashed.

 

[HelenD123]

My Dad reckoned it got down to -20 here last night and -10 at the moment . I'm going stir crazy in the house so will have to don multiple layers and go for a walk soon.

 

[Speicher]

Yes, Pots, you do have strange things happen to you:

Chocolate logs jump off the shelves and into your basket?
Hash browns manifest themselves in your tummy?

 

[potsy]

Morning Pots...what do you mean may have? Either do or don't... simples...

Bleedin' ffffffrrrreeeeesing this morning.. far too cold for the Sarf East.. No cycle commute today which is depressing, made even worse that I had to get a train with the great unwashed.

OK do. Great unwashed how revolting

hope you've taken your polishing cloth

 

[potsy]

Yes, Pots, you do have strange things happen to you:

Chocolate logs jump off the shelves and into your basket?
Hash browns manifest themselves in your tummy?

12 days to go of this year and I will then start being truthful about my eating habits

 

[Speicher]

I can see now one of the reasons I was getting confusalbobbed with the Dvd recorder wotsit.

HDD means that it has a hard drive, not that it just records High Definition tv, is that right.

So when Dvd recorders were described as HDD and HD that is two separate functions. And they wonder why peeps get confused. I have just been reading John Lewis's buying guide. I would not buy from them. The local shop will deliver it and set it up for me free of charge, and they are very good. I definitely want to support local shops. Their prices are, surprisingly, very competitive.

I think I will purchase a separate recorder, rather than upgrade the Sky box. Twice now, I have had to have the skybox replaced, under warranty, something to do with the burning out of the search facility in the dish. If I have lots of programmes recorded on the skybox and it goes wrong, then presumably I loose those programmes.

From your very kind explanations, Ian, Potsy and Night Train I understand that:

I can record direct onto the hard drive, then edit what I want to keep onto a Dvd, (rewriteable) although in time that Dvd may degrade.

With a hard drive, I can pause a programme, then catch up, is that called "Time Lapse"?

If the Dvd Player has the right input/outputs, I can show photos on the tv.

Free view is probably included on the machine, in case I wish to cancel my Sky sub.

Tea and a mince pie for my advisors?

 

[Night Train]

That sounds about right.

The DVD RW doesn't degrade once recorded, at least not significantly, but it has a limited number of rewrites before it gives up. So if you recoreded a programme once you can keep it safely. If you record to watch and then overwrite it it will drgrade in about a months worth of doing that.

The ability to edit and download to DVD is probably dependent on the machine. I usually pull the instruction out of the box in the shop, with permission, and then sit on the floor reading it to make sure it does what I need it to do.

Check that the DVD is freeview and how many tuners it has got, if possible I would have twin tuners on both but, if not, definately twin on the hard drive recorder.

Thanks for the mince pie.