Well.......I had a philips 725 something or other, and it was an earlish HD recorder. Got it from Smiths Chity when they oppend the Bushin store. Was $1199 and on that day they were $699 on special....so couldn’t let the go !!
Since it was my first experience of a HD recorder and I didn’t bother comparing it with others, I actually didn’t mind it. But I agree, the menus were very slow ! But we used it EVERY day for recording and playing DVD's for the kids etc. And we certanly got out $699 worth in 18months. I was a bit hesitent at going beack to another Philips I must admit. I did notice that Smiths City had Philips recorders for $499 but hey are older ones, and they will have the slow menus too. >From everything I have read, every one raves about the Pioneer ones, and they are on special at smiths City at the moment, and NEARLY go one, but the one I ended up getting was another Philips and the first thing I did was get the guy in the shop to set it up so I could check out the menus etc. It performed a LOT better than the last one. The only real complain so far is the buttons on the remote a bit small and I cant palx a DivX encoded avi hen is recording to the HD. The other reason I got the Philips one was because it was $699, and then it was on special for $599 at Farmers, then they had 20% off and since it was the only unit of the philips they had in stock at the store, and the store is not having an electronics section soon, I got even more of a discount....got it for $450 !! But, if I had $599...I would got o Smiths City and get the Pioneer. Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert martin Sent: 10 April 2007 09:08 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: Re: [DUG-Offtopic] G-Code Generator Hi Jeremy Not answering your question sorry but ... I am looking at DVD / HDD recorders and notice that the phillips 160GB machine is about $200 less than all other brands ($499 at bond and bond - all others about $699). I have a mate who has a phillips DVD (only) recorder and hates it, says its really slow to do anything with. How did you find yours ? Rob Martin Software Engineer phone +64 03 377 0495 fax +64 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com Wild Software Ltd Jeremy Coulter wrote: > Hi All. > Well, after the HD AND DVD drive bothing getting frizzed at the same > time on my Philips DVD recorder unit ( it did last 18mths with very > heavy usge) I got another unit the other day. > One of the things it does is when you go to set the program you want > to record is bring up a g-code screen first, which makes sense to me > as I use them out of he TV guide..its just easier. > BUT if i want to record something off Sky, I have to manually enter > the time etc. I got to thinking, there must be a way to generate a > G-Code code by entering in a date and time and I guess maybe a channel. > But after searching the web, I only seem to find dead links. Anyone > seen any code or even an app. that wil do this? > > Thanks, Jeremy > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.26/748 - Release Date: > 05/04/2007 15:33 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list > Post: Offtopic@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list Post: Offtopic@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.26/748 - Release Date: 05/04/2007 15:33 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.26/748 - Release Date: 05/04/2007 15:33 _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list Post: Offtopic@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
