Freeview boxes with Hard Disk drives

Posted by: Stephen Bennett on 01 November 2005

Hi all

Does anyone have one of these? Any recommendations? I'd like one with 2 tuners and at least an 80GB drive.

Regards

Stephen

Posted on: 09 December 2005 by Martin Payne

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Originally posted by JonR:
I am interested in one of these combined Freeview/HD/DVD boxes. Does anyone know if any of the ones mentioned have the ability to receive the TopupTV service?

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Looks like the Topfield can - see bottom of the page for this quote:-

Jon,

the Toppy doesn't have DVD.

cheers, Martin

Posted on: 09 December 2005 by Stuart M

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the Toppy doesn't have DVD.

But link it to you PC via USB,
grab the recording(s) in streamed MPEG2,
convert to standard MPEG2,
edit to tidy up and remove adverts,
assemble your DVD,
add menus and chapters,
burn your DVD.

It's not as bad as it sounds, and several easy to follow guides available, and gives a great finished product.