Newbie not happy with tvdrive

[Fekker]

I have the LG 32" LCD through HDMI @ 720 Wide and all my pictures through the TVDrive are stunning.

[Gadgie]

I know that all Telewest customers are all fully aware of Re-Booting the box if things go wrong, but before you grab the phone to call them up for help. Consider the Batteries in your remote control, as another cause for the problem?
I suppose with all this new technology a window will pop up on screen and tell you when to change them, but until that happens, just keep that in mind.
I was just about to make a call myself recently, until I remembered about the remote batteries.
So I took them out and tried them in a torch (which is a good way of finding out how much power they have left)
As we use rechargeable ones, they do tend to need replacing more often, so it is a handy point to remember

[Arthurgray50@blu]

arthurthe spur here, I fell foul of a very good well known store, over a 37in telly, and with a TELEWEST TV DRIVE, the picture is top quality clear picture, and it has saved me hundreds, when you compare to Sky,(which does costs about £300.00+) when you buy large TVs be careful, as there are a few twists, that sales reps don't tell you about, so be careful, maybe when Sir Richard takes over, he will some buttons to make things happen

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Arthurthe Spur here, There is only one problem with the SkyHD, it is called price, Before l went to Telewest from Sky, l was qouted £300+ for HD, BUT don't forget if you have Sky+ you have to have a separate box, so with BOTH boxes you are looking at nearly £1,000 plus installations/insurance cost, whereas with Telewest you get both in the same box for £15.00 per month and no repair bill, if it goes wrong - they change the box.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

arthurthe spur here, I fell foul of a very good well known store, over a 37in telly, and with a TELEWEST TV DRIVE, the picture is top quality clear picture, and it has saved me hundreds, when you compare to Sky,(which does costs about £300.00+) when you buy large TVs be careful, as there are a few twists, that sales reps don't tell you about, so be careful, maybe when Sir Richard takes over, he will some buttons to make things happen

---------- Post added at 20:33 ---------- Previous post was at 20:21 ----------

Arthurthe Spur here, There is only one problem with the SkyHD, it is called price, Before l went to Telewest from Sky, l was qouted £300+ for HD, BUT don't forget if you have Sky+ you have to have a separate box, so with BOTH boxes you are looking at nearly £1,000 plus installations/insurance cost, whereas with Telewest you get both in the same box for £15.00 per month and no repair bill, if it goes wrong - they change the box.

Not sure what the first part of your post was about. But Sky HD doesn't require a Sky+ box as well. The Sky HD box has the recording features as well.

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

arthurthe spur here, I fell foul of a very good well known store, over a 37in telly, and with a TELEWEST TV DRIVE, the picture is top quality clear picture, and it has saved me hundreds, when you compare to Sky,(which does costs about £300.00+) when you buy large TVs be careful, as there are a few twists, that sales reps don't tell you about, so be careful, maybe when Sir Richard takes over, he will some buttons to make things happen

---------- Post added at 20:33 ---------- Previous post was at 20:21 ----------

Arthurthe Spur here, There is only one problem with the SkyHD, it is called price, Before l went to Telewest from Sky, l was qouted £300+ for HD, BUT don't forget if you have Sky+ you have to have a separate box, so with BOTH boxes you are looking at nearly £1,000 plus installations/insurance cost, whereas with Telewest you get both in the same box for £15.00 per month and no repair bill, if it goes wrong - they change the box.

You do not need to have both boxes to watch HD, assuming that you are starting from scratch you have the initial outlay for the HD box.
Assuming that you already have the older sky or sky+ box then that will become redundant, which in fairness is no different as if you were an NTL customer going to HD.
With regard problems if things go wrong remember the sale of goods act, and by the way another thing to remember is that goods are covered up to 6 years regardless what guarantee you are given by the provider or manufacturer.
Only yesterday I got a refund on a laptop that was playing up, I had only had it about 4 weeks, I wont name the outlet, but for some reason patrick moore comes to mind!
They tried fobbing me off with the manufacturers helpline number, even consumer direct were not seeing the issue from my pont of view, so I got onto head office and reminded them that as the laptop was less than 6 months old I did not have to prove there was a existing problem when it was first purchased, and that I would take the matter to the small claims court if a full refund was not forthcoming.
At first they offered to do a recovery at their inconvenience, and if that did not work then they would offer a refund.
I declined this offer stating that I had no faith in their products and reminded them again of my intentions, they then conceded and offered me the full refund.

[Gadgie]

Good result there with your Lap Top, well done!

Another thing I have noticed with these large TVs, is the price is dropping a lot, I know we bought ours way back to watch the work cup, but the prices have "halved" in some stores since then. We also took out their "Extended Warranty" just in case things went wrong?
The picture quality is great through the Telewest TV Drive box, in fact we had to get that, as the quality was so poor through their standard box.
My B/in/Law, has Sky, and gets around 8 H/D film channels, but then he is paying a lot more for that, than we are!
I contacted Telewest t ask about their future plans for H/D TV programs, and they said things are going to change come April? So we will have to wait and see