Tag: PVR

Win a TVonics DVR-FP250 Freeview PVR with Tech Digest

tvonics56.jpg Fancy recording that night’s episode of Eastenders, but you won’t get home from work in time? We have just the answer to your quandry, as we wouldn’t want you to miss out on the latest news surrounding the Stacey/Bradley/Max love-triangle now, would we?

Simply send me an email with your postal address (you must be living within Britain, sorry), and tell me what the first TV show you’d record using your new TVonics DVR-FP250 Freeview PVR would be. All entrants will be signed up to our mailing list, so if you’re not comfortable with receiving the odd email from Tech Digest, then please say so when emailing me…

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Ocean Blue calls for a single PVR standard

ocean_blue_software.gifOcean Blue Software has called for a single standard for digital TV recorders (PVRs). Managing Director of Ocean Blue said that the introduction of Freeview Playback has been a step in the right direction, but that most PVRs contain proprietary software due to a lack of industry standard guidelines.

Ocean Blue would like to see a single brand across satellite, cable, and even IPTV broadcasts. Their Voyager software system is already the standard mandated middleware solution for Freeview digital TV receivers, while Sunrise is a DVB compliant suite of software that can receive analogue and digital video and audio, with Surfsoft being a Freeview Playback standard.

Could Ocean Blue be suggesting that they would offer the best software standard?

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Humax release PVR-9200TB: Freeview Playback dual tuner PVR

Humax has once again upgraded its PVR-9200T Freeview PVR, this time renaming it as the PVR-9200TB.

It claims to be one of the first Freeview Playback digital TV recorders on the market, sporting a 160GB hard drive, and comes with a number of nifty features including schedule tracking and auto-buffering.

It has two tuners, enabling two shows to be recorded, or one to be recorded while another is being watched live. Recording and scheduling is handled via the eight-day Electronic Programme Guide.

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TVonics launch low-power DVR-FP250 Freeview PVR

tvonics_dvr_250_freeview_pvr.jpgLast year we reported on the (slightly more) eco-friendly TVonics DVR-150 PVR, and now the company has upgraded the specifications and released their DVR-FP250 Freeview PVR.

There’s a bigger hard drive — up to 250GB from 150GB — plus all the usual functionality of both Freeview, and a PVR, bundled in one box. It comes with two Freeview tuners.

The main selling point, then, is not so much the functionality which you’d find on any self-respecting PVR, but the fact that it’s using significantly less power to achieve the same results.

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