Archive for August, 2007

Interesting Toppy times

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

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 [...]

Topfield SD PVR boxes now on sale

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

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 [...]

The great cable debate

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

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 [...]

Hello, I’m still here

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

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, [...]