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Originally Posted by gadge
Okay so some of us have the v+ for a few days or weeks,so what do you think of it,did it match your expectations or not what features do you like and not like.
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I have had the TV Drive for a couple of weeks now and am delighted with it, in particular
1. TV guide is much better and faster than the old STB.
2. Browsing favourite channels is very good especially with the Pgup and Pgdown keys.
3. Excellent picture - I watched the Wales Ireland rugby on Sunday in HD on BBC it was fabulous; I liked being able to see the expressions on the faces in the crowd.
4. The multi-tuning facility is brilliant - on Sunday, starting from about 14:00 I watched the Scottish football which kicked off at 13:00, the rugby KO 15:00 and the Tottenham ManU game KO 16:00. Saves a lot of time when you can FF through the boring bits.
5. I have also been able to copy films to DVD while recording another programme and at the same time watching something else, either live or from a recording.
6. The series recording is excellent - my wife has this setup for most of the soaps and is getting quite keen to watch them later in the evening with the FF key for the adverts!
7. Video on demand and Catch up TV look very good - we watched an HD film on this at the weekend. The picture was superb but the film was pretty average.
On the downside, I have only 2 comments,
8. I would like to see more HD content (for sport, of course) and hope that Sky & Virgin & Setanta etc can come to a sensible arrangement over this without our having to invoke an ombudsman or whatever.
9. My box is sometimes slow to respond, but usually gets the idea quite quickly. The STB used to do this as well so I am not too bothered.
10. Finally, my wife likes this so much she would like her own box (sports free of course) but NTL are currently "rationing" to one per household.
The last comment should also be on the PLUS side. Overall, I am delighted.
Cheers
JB