Recent content by tom_mk

Now, now. play nicely! :cheers: And thank you to all for their comments / suggestions. :star:

Hi BigBoss, Thanks again for the feedback /suggestions. The one thing that I think I'm realising at the moment is that I will need to upgrade my amp sooner rather than later (or rather following the blu-ray player, that will be the next piece to be upgraded, whenever that is.) I'm also...

Hi BigBoss, Thanks for the suggestion although not sure the additional budget will go down to well :-) Whilst the RRP for the Sony is £230 I've found it available for around £190 and I think the Panasonic RRP is £300 but can be found for £230. I'd be interested to see / hear which player is...

Hi Bill, Thanks very much for the suggestion and certainly worth considering. To be honest I'll probably steer clear because it means having to power yet another device (not sure how many power sockets I've got avaliable at the moment - and don't want to have to buy a bigger multi socket) and...

My partner bought me a Sony BDP-S5100 as a birthday present. Unfortunately we've discovered that this model doesn't have a Optical Digital Out, which would be used to feed audio into my rather old AV amp (which is also my old DVD player). And although the blu-ray player has a Coaxial Digital...

Hi professorhat, professorhat: No problem - just checking though, when you say move things into folders, do you mean on the actual box's internal disk or on the USB hard disk? On the box itself, you can definitely organise into folders and thus I assume you also can if you wanted to for...

Hi professorhat, Thanks very much for the quick and detailed response. professorhat: tom_mk:I see from your extra post that you can archive/move recordings onto a USB drive. Do you know if it's possible to manage the recordings, i.e. move them into folders? I'm pretty sure this is...

Hi professorhat, Having read through this thread it appears that the ethernet connection is not currently enabled. Is this still the case? I'm looking at either this or the Humax. With regard to the Ethernet connectivity, I assume that this means it is not able to play media from other...

I currently have a Panasonic TH-37PX80B which is soon likely to be accompanied by a Topfield TF5810PVRt. I have an old Sony DAV S550 (S-Master 5.1 channel DVD Player/Full Digital Amplifier). I bought it years ago based on a What Hi-Fi review and was very impressed - the quality for the cost...

Time to finally make the plunge and buy a new PVR. The question is, based on recent reviews, which one should I go for. I guess that the question revolves around what device should to the scaling, the Topfield has a HDMI connection, and therefore I am assuming, scales the image before it is...

Just in case anyone else puzzles over this, Page 75, the heading of the test result page says "Group Test" of "DVD Recorders" when actually it's the summary of "Blu-Ray players". The test result page of "DVD Recorders" is on page 91 and correctly labelled. Bit too much cut and paste after that...

We recently bought a 37PX80B which looks huge compared to the old 19" Philips CRT we had, but it does look good. Our decision was whether to go for 32" or 37". Our decision was based on what we would be viewing, which is mainly Freeview and some DVDs which would be played on an 'old' DVD...

Andy Clough:We didn't include the review of the TVonics DVR-150 online because, according to TVonics, it's been discontinued and we're waiting for the new model. The Goodmans is fine, but the advantage of the new TVonics DTR-Z500 is that it has a much bigger hard drive, so I'd say hang on for...

Thanks for the info WelshBoy. Taking a look at the FutureShop catalogue of products has also answered another question that I had waiting in the wings. Which was, is there any benefit to having a good quality UHF aerial cable? The reason for asking is that I have a Vogel wall mount bracket for...

Thanks for the response ProfessorHat. So to get really technical, is it better to have Component-to-Component or is there no difference between that and say a mixed combo cable, such as Component-to-SCART?