3 posts tagged “dvd”
There's been an import version available for some time - which I have. But it's nice to know that the BBC have finally remembered what a good series it was.
For those that don't know, Neverwhere was a series that ran on the BBC in 1996. It is set in a London where another city exists just below the real one. A city where there really is an Angel called Islington and where the Baron's Court is on a tube train.
The series suffers a little from low production values, but it's very interesting - if only for the number of cast members who went on to become well-known. For example it has Tamsin Greig in one of her first roles, playing a psychic vampire.
All in all it's well worth watching. And for the full effect, you can then read the novel.
My Redeye Remote Thingy arrived yesterday, less than a day after I'd ordered it. It connected up easily and doesn't actually look as incongrous as it does in the photo. So, as a result, the HDD recorder can now change channels on the cable box. Which is all very exciting.
Guide+ is all looking very good too. It now lists all of the channels that we get from ntl. It hasn't filled in the details for the cable channels yet as you need to leave the box tuned to ITV (I still can't get used to calling it ITV1) overnight and what discerning TV ever wants his cable box tuned to ITV?
But the data it has for the terrestrial channel all looks good. And you can set up a recording just by pointing at a programme's name and pressing a button. It also has search and "favourite programme" functions which I assume means that I can, for example, ask it to look for anything with Doctor Who in the title on any channel. Not sure if it can be set to record it automatically. I'll be investigating in more depth over the weekend.
All in all, this recorder is intergrating with my existing system far better that I hoped it would. So far, I'm very happy with it.
Last night I bought myself a new toy. It's a JVC DR MH300 DVD recorder with hard disk. So finally we've dragged ourselves into the digital era and can stop recording TV programs on videotape.
It was easy enough to get it set up with my TV and cable box and I successfully recorded a couple of programmes to the hard disk last night. Also overnight the Guide Plus system kicked in and downloaded programme details for the next few days. Unfortunately, it only did that for the terrestrial channels, but I think I've worked out how to get it to work with the cable channels too - I'll test that overnight.
It also has a little infrared thingy that should be able to change channels on the cable box. But it seems that my cable box uses an obscure old infrared protocol so I need to buy an adapter from these people before that will work properly.
All in all it looks like a great investment. I wish I'd bought one years ago. But, of course, they've only recently dropped in price to a reasonable level.
