Does anyone know anything about this box?

Meant to be twin HD tuner with 250Gb drive but I can't find any info on it, except that Retravision seem to be selling it.

Anyone?

Cheers
Bob

Finally found a few posts on it. I gather its a piece of junk.

Actually, it is a quite a nice unit in my opinion. 250 GB HDD, Twin HD Tuners, Time Shif t Recording, EPG, HDMI etc etc.
We have sold a few of them and haven't had any returned yet.

You can pick them up for around $650.00 these days.

Hi
There's another Thread on this somewhere, its(apparently) a rebadged LG.
One way to get Retravision to sell LG Products i guess.

Regards

Basil

Jeez I can remember when NEC sold ONLY quality 'Made in Japan' grade goods...now they sell LousyGear rebadged in it's once great name???

I have just checked out the LG and would tend to say this is a different product from the specs I saw

They still do - their commerical Multeos range og LCDs are still designed, engineered and built by NEC in Japan.

It's not a bad price though for twin tuner HD PVR @ $599. Is it a true twin tuner?

I believe it is.

Your belief is misguided Alex.

Initial Thread

Feature Summary

Regards

Peter Gillespie

hmm, I stand corrected.

Does any one know if you can record Austar with a NHD-3000PVR

I just bought one from Graysonline for $399, its being used in the bedroom to record the occasional show & watch HD channels.

I bought one of these the other day from Grays - price wise it was $419, plus delivery etc ... probably a pretty good price ...

Now am I being too fussy, but I just keep finding shortfalls with the unit.

There is no timer overlap, so while there are 2 tuners, you can't set 2 shows to record at the same time in the timer. Is this a common thing with PVRs?

When I record programs, it seems to (at random) split the show and the recorded show comes up as 2 different files in the playlist screen.

The timer menu is a jumbled mess. Doesn't auto sort in date order of next show to record.

When unit is switched to standby it stops the aerial signal flowing through the unit, so can't watch normal tv without switching unit on.

When a show is recording on timer you can't start to watch that show until it has completely finished recording.

If you are watching a show that has been recorded, stop it and come back to it later, there is no option to continue watching from the last position - it automatically goes back to the beginning ... AHHH

I had (have) a Pioneer DVD recorder with an old analogue tuner. It was a great machine, great menu, very user friendly. Am I just hoping for features that wont exist in any PVR?

Mutley251, have a look at the Digitalview dvr-810. Menu system is like the Pioneer and works very well.

Thanks Hex - I went and had a look at this unit - very nice looking unit. Price wise it is up there.

I'm going to persist with the NEC for a little while longer, although it is doing some strange stuff. It is going to NEC for a look over.

Regards

I've sent mine off for a Firmware upgrade, hopefully it will cure some of the quirkiness

I got my PVR back from having it's firmware update & I can now set the timer record function to record 2 channels at the same time.

That is the one big problem with the unit I have. Other than that, it works ok. How did you go about getting the unit upgraded?