{"id":95,"date":"2007-01-18T22:12:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T21:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=95"},"modified":"2008-07-31T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T11:52:00","slug":"tv-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/01\/18\/tv-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had ntl&#8217;s TV Drive installed today. The STB is a Scientific Atlanta &#8211; Explorer 8300DVB <a title=\"Spec sheet (PDF)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciatl.com\/customers\/Source\/7004921.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Spec sheet (PDF)<\/a>. which so far hasn&#8217;t exhibited any major problems. There&#8217;s a FAQ available <a title=\"TV Drive FAQ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cableforum.co.uk\/board\/showthread.php?p=34192193\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> which explains a lot but my personal first impression is very good.<\/p>\n<p>The picture quality appears better than the standard box with less pixelation on fast moving scenes, the guide is far better with none of the infamous &#8220;Searching for programmes&#8230;&#8221; more than 6 hours into the future (I set two series to record, the latest starting next Tuesday) and the interactive menus that I&#8217;ve tried have just appeared, none of the &#8220;Please Wait&#8230;&#8221; of the old box \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The STB has 4 tuners, contrary to the FAQ, but one is reserved for data with ntl leaving 3 for TV. You can record up to 2 channels while watching a third but you can&#8217;t (as yet) record 3 together. This has yet to be tested by me but I&#8217;m sure it will before too long \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as I said, first impressions are good. Let&#8217;s hope I remain pleased with it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had ntl&#8217;s TV Drive installed today. The STB is a Scientific Atlanta &#8211; Explorer 8300DVB Spec sheet (PDF). which so far hasn&#8217;t exhibited any major problems. There&#8217;s a FAQ available here which explains a lot but my personal first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/01\/18\/tv-drive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-positives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}