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.