160GBP for 160GB
Monday, November 19th, 2007Quid per gig with Sharp’s new Playback DVR
Sharp has upgraded its Freeview DVR range to allow for full Freeview Playback support with its new TU-R160HA set top box. Costing £160 British pounds, the new Sharp box comes with a 160GB hard drive allowing you to store the equivalent of 80 hours of digital TV, or £2 an hour, if you get our drift.
Freeview Playback, often referred to as ‘Freeview +’ gives Freeview customers all the skip, pause, fast-forward and record-ability of a Sky+ box, and come with fully programmable EPGs as well as the Series Link feature, which allows you to program the box to automatically record an entire series of Heroes, X Factor, Ugly Betty or whatever takes your fancy. This kid of functionality is old news to Sky+ owners, who can queue up an entire series of Ross Kemp on Gangs at their whim.
The Sharp TU-R160HA features all this plus ‘Chase Playback’, which allows you to start watching something minutes after you’ve begun recording it, thanks to its twin tuners, which also, of course, allow you to watch one programme while recording another.
November 14th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
As stated above, Google and youtube do exactly the same thing yet all these so called law enforcers can do is pick on a young man. He doesnt live in the US where it may be a crime so come on… leave the guy alone and try concentrating on ACTUAL law breakers of this country.
November 19th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I semi-regularly used TV Links, and I have to say, much as I disagree with the legal ’standpoint’, it was pretty much inevitable that it wasn’t going to last.
There was some stuff on there that you couldn’t even purchase legitimatley, online or anywhere else.
I think this most defineltly is the film studios Napster - something great being killed by people who don’t understand or don’t want to understand the internet.