October 2005 Archives
Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:08:35 +0000
sweet toys of mine
Being in a spending mood I have rewarded myself this week:
Item One, a
Topfield 4000 PVR
with a 250GB hard-disk. Watching TV life was simply too painful. Loads of
commercials, interesting stuff in the middle of night or early in the morning. I
could have gone for Linux-VDR instead, but a comparable system (no fan, two
tuners, almost fool-proof) would have been a lot more expensive than the EUR
220 (+ harddisk) I paid and/or would have involved a lot of tinkering.
The second gizmo I got is last year's Hot Blast SL 160. I think the picture on the webpage is wrong and shows the new 05/06 model. I'll know once I have actually fetched my new board from Vienna. I guess I'll topple, fall and tumble a little bit more than last winter, but that is the fun of it. ;-)
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