Techno-numpty thread
The missus wants freeview, and I don't have a clue. We don't give a fuck about HD, just want to be able to record progs. I take it from the name that once you've bought the box, it's free, right?

Anyone got a decent set-top box they'd recomend? don't want to spend a fortune.

Cheers!
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:38, 23 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

A freeview box is just a decoder it won't record programs
you want a hard disc recorder with freeview built in.
Oh and you should make sure it's HD because more and more stuff is going that way.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:40, Reply)

This non HD
www.ebuyer.com/product/223443
This one bigger better HD but 3x the price.
www.ebuyer.com/product/222276
(PsychoChomp, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:44, Reply)

i don't have a HD tv, and fro the price I paid for the cunt
it's going to damn-well last me for a few years yet

edit: £60 looks like a goer, is it any good?
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:48, Reply)

ah piss
i've jsut had a thought, am i going to have to get a new aerial?
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:52, Reply)

Possibly but your might work for most channels.
I'd try the box first and then decide.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:59, Reply)

cool
cheers
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 14:00, Reply)

I'm disappointed, Mictoboy
I wanted my umpteenth return to contain more futile rage from the offtopicers
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:42, Reply)

i don't know who you are

( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:46, Reply)

same goes
but at least I made the effort not to post boring tech support blollocks
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:50, Reply)

it's not tech support bollocks
it's consumer advice bollocks
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:53, Reply)

bollocks is as bollocks does

( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:55, Reply)

I just bought a dual tv turner card for my pc
and hooked it up to the telly. I can record two channels at once, pause live tv, rewind live tv and cos its a computer I can put loads of movies etc. Most computers these days have a dvi output which is hdmi without the sound so you can get a dvi to hdmi cable and hook it up and use a regular 3.5mm jack cable for the audio. Most freeview boxes won't let you record unless you go super expencive. upgrading an old pc cost me less than 50 quid
( Peej, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:43, Reply)

that's just noise
follow psychochomp's example of useful links
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:47, Reply)

If you can't find a tv card for a pc by yourself then you don't deserve a computer.

( Peej, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:54, Reply)

i've got a mac
of course i don't deserve a computer
i just have it on in the background while I have poncy dinner parties
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 14:00, Reply)

That's a tiny bit rude
I'll run that little vignette past my Gran and see if she can get a TV card for her laptop? If she can't, I'll take it away and throw it through your fucking window.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 14:02, Reply)

welcome to the internet
a little bit rude since 1988
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 14:02, Reply)

Ach
He's usually nicer than this.

Anyway, if you grab something sub £100 in this area, you might be running the risk of it going kaput more easily. Having said that my Dad got a £100 quid job from Argos and it's still going strong.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)

I wasn't trying to be rude.
However if I was being slightly rude then you were being rather more rude than that. For example whilst I may have suggested that someone can find things for themselves using their computer, you suggested that you would throw your Grandmothers laptop through my fucking window. If you were to do this could you wait until my daughter is out? She's only 2 and broken glass flying about might scare her a tad, thanks.
( Peej, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 14:24, Reply)

I bet your gran is capable of googling "TV Card"

( Peej, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 14:11, Reply)

if humax do one then get that

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:45, Reply)

look a bit pricey old chum

( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:53, Reply)

that's a shame
the recorder part of them is rather good.

this is from experiencing them vicariously. I've got the Virgin HD+ box, which is really good.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 14:32, Reply)