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Originally Posted by Devonish
Masque, I found part of your response a bit sarcastic & not called for, of course I read your original post, its there on the forum, how could I not read it. Maybe if you read my post in a different way what I was/am trying to convey would be clearer. I am aware of the limitations of current hardware & software used by VM/V+ box manufacturers, my belief/hope was/is that there was/is hardware & software available that would enable relatively easy & swift transfer of recorded content, even if it meant some degree of quality loss. If you had responded that, say, yes it is possible but that would be, overall, way too expensive to implement for a relatively small improvement, I would have said to myself, well yes fair comment. But never mind & thanks again for taking the time to respond.
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It what way can my post be construed as sarcastic?
All I have done is point out the limitations on transferring programmes from the V+ to a recording system, as the system only transfers at the normal playing speed, hence a 1 hour programme will take 1 hour to transfer.
So if you have a box with 30 hours of recordings it will take a minimum of 30 hours to transfer, but this of course will only be possible on a working box, and as the engineer will have been called out for a faulty box the would be no system available to transfer from.
Even if we offered a service to retrieve your recordings from a faulty box it would not be free of charge as it would have to be done in a specialised facility which would then have to return the recordings to you, so I rather doubt that anyone would pay for such a service, plus it would very likely entail it being transferred onto your replacement box which you would be without for at least a week while the transfer was being done.