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[troykm]

pjc, on 04 March 2012 - 02:03 PM, said:

So are you returning the DSE one?

No, giving it to my sister:-)

[troykm]

<p>Well after a week or so with the Grundig I&#39;ve decided its ****. thats the only word for it. The 500gb version is stable but is limited by free view EPG (something you all knew anyway) but the 1TB version kept crashing over and over. so returned it and get the Topfield 7170. very happy now. even though it uses EIT its still accurate and everything i have set to record (so far) has worked</p>
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<p>i don&#39;t know what i was thinking going with free view LOL i read this forum lots and should have known better&nbsp;</p>
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[troykm]

ok i don't know what happened to my above post but its all jibber jabber

so, i returned the 1TB grundig as its garbage. Kept crashing and freezing. the 500gb one seems stable so gave it to my sister.

i bought the Topfield 7170 yesterday and its light years ahead, even with the EIT guide. have set play only timers daily so guide is always populated :-)

all IR recordings have worked so far, fingers crossed.

i forgot about all the taps you can get, even one that gives me, essentially, wish lists :-)

i don't know why i went with free view in the first place as i read this forum regularly and should have known better LOL

Edited by troykm, 08 March 2012 - 12:50 PM.

[Robert E]

troykm, on 01 March 2012 - 04:52 AM, said:

The CRID system works and I have not missed the end of any recordings and can record to concurrent shows on the same tuner, something you cannot do on TiVo or other PVRs due to padding.

You can record back to back programs on PVR's that also provide padding settings.
Any PVR that allows any padding period to prevent another timer being set clearly has some major issues.

ps I'm assuming by concurrent you meant consecutive.

Edited by Robert E, 15 March 2012 - 05:23 PM.

[troykm]

Robert E, on 15 March 2012 - 05:20 PM, said:

ps I'm assuming by concurrent you meant consecutive.

No I meant concurrent. Two shows meeting at the same point - concurrent.

[Paul55]

troykm, on 16 March 2012 - 08:33 PM, said:

No I meant concurrent. Two shows meeting at the same point - concurrent.

Concurrent means ''at the same time''
Consecutive means ''following or in sequence''

[pgdownload]

troykm, on 16 March 2012 - 08:33 PM, said:

Two shows meeting at the same point - concurrent.

Not to be a pain but that would be contiguous

Regards

Peter Gillespie

[prl]

Some dictionary definitions:
Contiguous: next or together in sequence
Consecutive: following continuously
Concurrent: existing, happening of done at the same time

So what's being described here could be said to be either contiguous or consecutive, but definitely not concurrent. I'd use consecutive, myself, but contiguous would be OK, to.

Edit: punctuation

Edited by prl, 17 March 2012 - 10:58 AM.

[troykm]

- adjective 1. occurring simultaneously 2. acting in conjunction; cooperating 3. having equal jurisdiction 4. accordant or agreeing 5. intersecting at the same point - noun 6. something joint or contributory

Meaning 2, 5 and 6 apply therefore my use of the word is correct. Your words are also correct.

The PVR is still crap though lol

[prl]

The recordings are acting in conjunction or co-operating? Intersecting at the same point? (That is a mathematical use referring to lines) Joint or contributory? What?

Your usage is plainly incorrect, and confusing, because concurrent recordings are not consecutive. The other two usages are correct.

[troykm]

For goodness sake, the crids act in conjunction with each other, the two shows intersect when one finishes and the other begins as that's the moment the crids change and are both joined by the crids. And if you take the padding into account, they occur simultaneously which was the point as I was talking about the TiVo padding vs crid.
Gee I'll get a hair and we can all split it lol
Words are adaptive and their meanings open to interpretation.

[Paul55]

Someone get a mop - there's gonna be blood

[prl]

troykm, on 17 March 2012 - 01:15 PM, said:

...
Words are adaptive and their meanings open to interpretation.

Ah, yes, reminds me of this:

Quote

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Lewis Carroll