was/is Saorview a flop?

The Cush

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

was in local currys store on Sunday - saw a (very pricey!) Blue-Ray player with Built in 1TB hard drive ... on the front 'FreeView+HD' so it was definately marketed for UK, but pretty sure on the Label on the shelf it said 'Saorview Recorder with 1TB Hard Disk' - well fair enough, am sure it does indeed record Saorview, but what about the TV guide etc? - is it likely to work OK with the Saorview TV Guide and series linking? thats the thing

Panasonic DMR-PWT635 I assume, a model exclusive to Currys.

Purchased one previously, no Ireland setting on setup with channels stored in the 800s but can be easily reordered as required. Series linking disabled by Saorview but did work when I first purchased. Nice user interface.

Andy From Sligo

The Cush wrote: »

Panasonic DMR-PWT635 I assume, a model exclusive to Currys.

Purchased one previously, no Ireland setting on setup with channels stored in the 800s but can be easily reordered as required. Series linking disabled by Saorview but did work when I first purchased. Nice user interface.

looks a good bit of kit though, and it being a panasonic , would be a good make, and much better than the USB/PVR/external hard drive route - so it having 2 HD tuners that would mean then being able to watch one channel and record another? - or maybe record 2 channels and watch another? - how ludicrous that saorview has done that to the series linking feature for non Saorview approved devices

The Cush

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

so it having 2 HD tuners that would mean then being able to watch one channel and record another? - or maybe record 2 channels and watch another?

Yes you can watch 1/record 1 or record 2/playback 1. One thing I've never tested actually is record 2 and watch 1, don't think it would work but will test it out soon.

Series link was very good on the Panasonic, even discovered the problem with series linking the Vincent Brown show on TV3 with the box http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=89854521
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=90363293

Digifriendly

I have a similar Panasonic model that I bought over 2 years ago and you can record 2 channels at once and playback a recording but not watch a third channel although this particular model you refer to may enable you to do that. As with previous poster channels can be easily reordered in LCN and it is an excellent recorder which I rate very highly. I have had no problems with it whatsoever and I have advantage of being able to record from both Freeview and Saorview.

Sam Russell

The Cush wrote: »

Yes you can watch 1/record 1 or record 2/playback 1. One thing I've never tested actually is record 2 and watch 1, don't think it would work but will test it out soon.

Series link was very good on the Panasonic, even discovered the problem with series linking the Vincent Brown show on TV3 with the box http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=89854521
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=90363293

Given we have only two muxes at present, there would always be both the muxes available for recording and watching as there are two tuners. This assumes it can record one channel in the mux while you watch another in the same mux as this is post tuner.

The Cush

The Cush wrote: »

Yes you can watch 1/record 1 or record 2/playback 1. One thing I've never tested actually is record 2 and watch 1, don't think it would work but will test it out soon.

Ok, I've checked this, recording 2 channels from the same mux and 2 channels from separate muxes.

In both cases you cannot watch a third channel, only the 2 channels being recorded are viewable.