Info and forum posts by 'soapwart'

RE: King Kong 2 disc special edition - £3.99 @ CDWow...

Ordered mine last week and it arrived today.

RE: Acer 17" TFT Monitor

I have Acer Al 1717 and have not noticed this screen size change, although I don`t play games.Argos had the best price when got mine as I was able to buy 10% discount vouchers with my credit card points.

RE: Recording from Sky Autoview

I use this feature on my Panasonic DMR E55 ,I think this model has now been replaced by another, but my mother -in -law has their latest DVD VCR combo and this has the same feature. They call it "external link" so I`m sure it must be standard across their range.

Freeview box £ 29.92 at Tesco

Digilogic DSTB 1000, 2 scarts ,now and next or 7 day program guide,text and interactive.RGB output.Excelent buy at this price. Picture quality is equal to sky .Was going to go for a Sony at 3 times the price but took a gamble on this and am very pleased.

RE: Panasonic E55 ,excellent machine ,report and question

Thanks for that mate I`ve just tried it and it works fine!

Panasonic E55 ,excellent machine ,report and question

Thank you all for advice I have read on this forum which helped me choose this machine.I am very pleased with the picture quality, I cant realy tell recorded programs from live broadcasts.The DVD RAM discs will play in my S35 player so by using the E55 time slip function Its possible to watch a previosly recorded program whilst recording another (if its on the same disc) but if its on a different one I can watch it on the player.I can`t see you can get better than that!
Datasafe Ritek DVD-R at 40p each from SVP(including postage) work great, work ok on the S35 and also on my computer.
The only feature that doesn`t seem to work is" To specify a time to stop recording" page 18 in the book.When the record button is pressed say twice , it should stop after 30 mins but mine doesn`t. Anyone else found this?

This item was edited on Monday, 18th October 2004, 21:33

RE: Cheap DVD-R discs and E55 are they OK?

I`ll try these ones then.Do you mean Datasafe Ritek A Grade?

RE: Cheap DVD-R discs and E55 are they OK?

For some odd reason the DVD RAMs are not stocked in my local Argos(Devon) But I got some for the same price from PC World. :)

RE: Cheap DVD-R discs and E55 are they OK?

Thanks for taking the trouble to try the red disc.Yep, gave up on the Samsung and ordered the E55 ,haven`t got it yet will be here Tuesday.

Cheap DVD-R discs and E55 are they OK?

Could anyone tell me their experience with cheap DVD-R discs and the E55 recorder.
I see you can buy ,for example datawrite `Red` discs for around 25p each which is much cheaper than `branded` ones.
many thanks.

RE: Samgung R100 DVD Recorder

I am interested in this machine too. Argos have it in their catalogue for £249 but its cheaper on other web sites. If you try Argos ring and reserve you get a messge "not available to mid October" so I guess it doesn`t exsit yet. Not much information about it on the Samsung website .I requested a brochure but nothing has come yet.