Thread: Yet another TV Drive Review
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Old 23-12-2006, 16:47   #3
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Re: Yet another TV Drive Review
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Originally Posted by bayonet View Post
Hello Chris

Sounds promising from your comments

Due for my TVD install on 12th January I'm have a Toshiba 27" HD TV any tips for settings it up or is it all done from the STB?

One other thing did the engineers do the HD setup for you as I've booked it for them to do it for me

Cheers

Bayonet
Hi Bayonet,

I have a Toshiba 32" WLT 66 HD TV. I'm still messing around with picture settings on the telly to be honest, but once you have the TV Drive, you'll get a few display options for HDMI, including: 720, 1080, 720 wide and 1080 wide. I find 720 to be best for most telly (including football), and the TV Drive/Tosh will automatically switch between 4x3 and 16x9 pictures when you change channels (I have the 'Wide' picture format set on the Tosh).

The Engineers should bring a HDMI lead for you and they did most of the setup for me: they set up the 720 HDMI mode; Gave me a quick demo of the recording features, and showed me the wonders of BBC HD.

At the moment, I've turned off the 'MPEG NR' picture option on the Tosh since, IMO, the picture is a little better and the TV Drive goes a fair job of upscaling content to 720.

One thing to be aware of is that, according to the enginners, when the TV Drive displays error messages, it only displays it via the SCART output, so if the TV Drive starts to get seriously wacky, make sure you have the SCART and HDMI connected leads connected (I've been brave at the moment and have disconnected the scart so I can use it for my DVD player).

^^^ Hope that helps.


Following on from my review:

>>> I've encountered the 'dropped frames after watching recorded content' bug (there's a thread about this at Digital Spy). NTL need to fix this.

>>> The 'delayed response from remote control' bug is annoying and happens at random times during the day. NTL need to fix this too.

>>> There's a nice 'record by category' feature which allows you to select a list of programme types - for example, you can get a list of all football-related programs that are on today. You can then set up a reminder or set a program to record. Its a nice feature but it takes a good while for the TV Drive to get the list.

>>> The Parental Control is just....well, annoying (for me ), sometimes you're asked to enter your Parental Control PIN before you can watch recorded content which is rated 12, 15, 18 etc - there's no way to completely turn Parental Control off.

>>> There's a bug, well, 'feature' with the mini-guide - in settings, you can specify how long the mini-guide displays for, before it disappears. But the mini-guide will only remove itself from the screen when you DON'T press the left or right buttons to select mini-guide info for another channel.

>>> I recorded and watched 'The Unit' last night, it played back OK apart from the odd moment where the sound dropped out.
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