Any one here testing the NTL S/A Tv drive

[gadge]

Originally Posted by sollp

If you want to keep your original STB you will pay £5.00 a month for this, and doing this will also prevent you from paying a £75.00 installation fee for the TV drive. If you don't keep your original STB you will pay £75.00 installation fee for the TV drive.

wonder how it works if you have a box upstairs already like me.?

[Jonathan David]

Can anyone answer this query because i have to say i'm getting slightly confused about it all.

I have two boxes, one up and one down. I of course will be taking the TV drive when its available but i wish to keep the 2nd box to use with my Tivo.

So the million dollar question is, how much will i be having to pay for 3 boxes

[Bob]

I would imagine £15 (£10 for TVDrive, £5 for mirror subscription) if we go by Telewest's prices

[RS100]

I can not wait for this now, NTL want to get a move on sky are droping the price of there HD receiver to £199 from the 1st of november for new customers

[RamJet]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

The TV SCART is, but the VCR SCART isn't. So you can't archive with RGB whilst watching something else.

unless you split the signal ?

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Originally Posted by RS100

I can not wait for this now, NTL want to get a move on sky are droping the price of there HD receiver to £199 from the 1st of november for new customers

I agree why can't we get this now ?

They've had them in Telewest zone 4 ages ?

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Originally Posted by RS100

I can not wait for this now, NTL want to get a move on sky are droping the price of there HD receiver to £199 from the 1st of november for new customers

Still £199.00 to much for me.

I will be having the TVdrive as soon as its in my area.

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by RamJet

unless you split the signal ?

I think you misread my post. I said "you can't archive with RGB whilst watching something else". The TVDrive has two video decoders, but the second one, which is used by the archive function, is only connected to the (non-RGB) VCR SCART socket. You can split the RGB signal as long as you are happy to watch what you are archiving.

I suppose you could swap the TV and VCR SCART plugs over, and watch one recording whilst archiving another.

Note that if you have the output set to HDMI or Component, the TV SCART socket is disabled completely, because it can't decode both in HD and SD at the same time.

Originally Posted by RamJet

I agree why can't we get this now? They've had them in Telewest zone 4 ages

Don't believe everything you read here. The Telewest version was very specifically designed for the Telewest network, and a lot of changes have been required to make it work on the ntl networks.

(ps. Less of the text-speak please. I was trying to work out where "Telewest zone 4" is )

[Fateus Fudgerus]

Just rang CS and got through straight away! must be something wrong
Anyway asked about TV Drive and was told would be in the St.Albans area by 16th Jan.

As I only have one box at present I will be moving this to the bedroom. I want the cable under the floor so wish to run this myself. Is ntl ok about this and what cable would I need to use, is it standard 75 ohm coax?

[Tristan]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

I think you misread my post. I said "you can't archive with RGB whilst watching something else". The TVDrive has two video decoders, but the second one, which is used by the archive function, is only connected to the (non-RGB) VCR SCART socket.

That's disappointing for what is intended to be a high-end box. Is there any technical reason why both SCARTs couldn't be RGB?

Originally Posted by spiderplant

Note that if you have the output set to HDMI or Component, the TV SCART socket is disabled completely, because it can't decode both in HD and SD at the same time.

Could you, hypothetically, archive to an HDMI connected DVD recorder, or is such a facility banned by the Copyright Gestapo?

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Tristan

Is there any technical reason why both SCARTs couldn't be RGB?

As http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCART says: "RGB connections are not bidirectional. Bidirectional S-Video was added in an extension, although few devices support this, so downstream connections are almost always composite."

SCART has both input and output composite pins (19 and 20), but only one set of RGB pins (7, 11 and 13). These are wired as inputs on the VCR socket of all STBs AFAIK, so you can play back RGB through the box.

Originally Posted by Tristan

Could you, hypothetically, archive to an HDMI connected DVD recorder?

Yes, if there is such a thing and it supports HDCP. But only by using normal playback, not the archive function.

[popper]

Originally Posted by Fateus Fudgerus

Just rang CS and got through straight away! must be something wrong
Anyway asked about TV Drive and was told would be in the St.Albans area by 16th Jan.

As I only have one box at present I will be moving this to the bedroom. I want the cable under the floor so wish to run this myself. Is ntl ok about this and what cable would I need to use, is it standard 75 ohm coax?

your easyest option is to estimate the length and tell the fitter that you intend to reroute the cable under the floor, he/she should be fine with that as it makes their install faster to just cut the right length and no need to secure the cable as you will be finishing off.

or if you can do the prep work and make it easy for them to just thread the cable then that to could be done.

[Andy C]

I've been wondering about this myself. I currently have a splitter on the cable where it comes into the house. One cable then runs to my office for the cablemodem and the other is in the living room, but split a second time with one cable to the STB and the other providing terrestrial passthru to the DVD recorder.

As I am wanting to have the old STB in my office, could the coax going to the cablemodem just be split, or is adding a third splitter to the cable asking for trouble?


A.

Originally Posted by Bill C

Still £199.00 to much for me.

I will be having the TVdrive as soon as its in my area.

£199.00 Well spent imo, won top award for pvr in what hifi.
Said the picture quality is awesome.
Give it a bit longer and I see another £50 off soon

[Fateus Fudgerus]

Originally Posted by popper

your easyest option is to estimate the length and tell the fitter that you intend to reroute the cable under the floor, he/she should be fine with that as it makes their install faster to just cut the right length and no need to secure the cable as you will be finishing off.

or if you can do the prep work and make it easy for them to just thread the cable then that to could be done.

Thanks popper I'll work out the length and get them to leave enough.

[RS100]

I am going to give ntl a call and see if there is any info for my area on tv drive