Australian owners (or prospective owners) of Topfield PVRs might be interested to know that the manufacturer (Topfield Korea) has appointed a new distributor of the product in Australia. Some details here.

Sounds like Topfield Korea is less than impressed by the fact that the Australian distributor has  also been distributing the competing Beyonwiz range. Might be [...]

At the House of Nerds, we love our Topfield PVR. It allows us to simultaneously record two TV programs (to hard disc drive) while watching another previously-recorded program.

Frankly, the Toppy has revolutionised our (actually quite limited) TV viewing. It’s now unusual for us to watch anything in real time. We tend to set things to [...]

For some reason, the cable that carries signals from my Topfield PVR box to the TV has become intermittently faulty. Not sure why a cable would fail after well over a year of use, but there you go. The failure symptom is a badly flickering picture followed by complete loss of picture. I think the [...]

I know, it’s been a while. I’ve been busy. Many things have happened at once, namely:

I had a sermon to prepare and preach at church (on Mark 12:41-44)
I had a Preliminary Theological Certificate exam to prepare for (New Testament 1)
I went through a string of interviews for a new (full time) job—which I have secured.

So, [...]