£200 What to buy ???

[The_Jon]

Forumers cast me your ears

I've been deliberating long and hard and reading until my eyes are about to pop out of their sockets.

Would It be a fair assumption to make, that the Humax 9200, Is the best PVR out their for my financial limit of £200.

This literally Is a quick yes or no

Muchos Gracious

[IanSimmons]

Unless you get a mint customer return Topfield TF5800 from Turbosat, the distributors of Topfield. I have heard them come in at less than £200 (can anyone confirm?).

[Bearded_Malc]

kelkoo has toppies starting from 230.

I think it depends on what you want. The USB on the humax is not as good so if you want to shift programmes on to PC a lot I'm sure downloading the files twice and then running error correction would very soon pale.

Likewise toppy is the only one with TAPs so you can customise the GUI, and add features. On my toppy I have a screen saver that kicks in if I pause the program, a flashy archive menu and an advert jump. Others have TAPs that automatically record programs based on search strings, different EPGs etc. www.toppy.org.uk will answer any toppy questions.

Also, some 9200's seem to have noisy fans where as the toppy has no fan.

Your money your choice but I'd choose the toppy again.

[marcdavis]

Originally Posted by jra33

Forumers cast me your ears

I've been deliberating long and hard and reading until my eyes are about to pop out of their sockets.

Would It be a fair assumption to make, that the Humax 9200, Is the best PVR out their for my financial limit of £200.

This literally Is a quick yes or no

Muchos Gracious

the quick yes or no: yes you are probably right.

Its easy to critique PVRs you dont have but having had many of them its even easier to get caught doing it! I do believe you would be pleased with any of the dual recording PVR from £150 to right up to your budget limit and they will do a good job. My most recent is the Matsui and for £150 its not bad. Better still and probably top of the range in this company is probably the Humax and Dixons are still selling them for £181 inc delivery. You can reserve one now at Comet.co.uk and buy this reserved item from your local comet store in an hour for £181 so dont spend any more on a Humax unless stocks of the good internet prices run out.

[hodg100]

I have a Toppy and an an Inverto but with a £200 limit I wouldn't hesitate in getting a Humax.

[Q*Bert]

Originally Posted by IanSimmons

Unless you get a mint customer return Topfield TF5800 from Turbosat, the distributors of Topfield. I have heard them come in at less than £200 (can anyone confirm?).

yes £190 delivered, but it seams that they have/dont have stock depending on who you talk to

[Q*Bert]

just set my toppy up, really easy to use, even though the manual tries to make things seem harder than they actually are
Set 50+ timers already so that blows the Humax out of the water in 2 hours of playing with the toppy.
not even put any Taps on yet