[access-uk] Re: t-vonics hard drive upgrade highly recommended

  • From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 16:23:59 +0100

Thanks Mark. I look forward to your continuing research and trust a similar type product will be identified for blind people in Ireland in the coming months. 


Eleanor
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Magennis" <Mark.magennis@xxxxxxx> 
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 4:19 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: t-vonics hard drive upgrade highly recommended



Hi Eleanor,
NCBI will not be selling, supporting or endorsing this box since it is not Saorview approved and the manufacturer is no longer there to provide any after sales service. 

Mark

On 5 Sep 2012, at 15:17, Eleanor Burke wrote:


Hi Aeden
Will you be passing on this information to NCBI so that blind people can avail of this system in Ireland. I would love to have one but I do not have your technical skills to purchase from RNIB and to go ahead and configure. 

Eleanor
----- Original Message ----- From: "Aedan O'Meara" <aedanomeara@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 3:03 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: t-vonics hard drive upgrade highly recommended



Hi Mo again,
This topic reminds me that I have a serious question re the time displayed by the Irish system on this TVonics dtr500g HD in that it is an hour out, it is as though the unit is showing GMT. I read in the instructions that you could select different countries when the unit has scanned the UHF band on initialising. However, I have tried re-tuning but I am not offered a combo box in which to select different regions as indicated in the instructions. 
Would anyone know if there is any time adjustment possible.
Other than this the unit is working fine on the Irish system including the 
proper display of the teletext.
Kind regards
Aedan.


-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Mobeen Iqbal
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 1:28 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: t-vonics hard drive upgrade highly recommended

Hi John,

Many thanks for your feedback! Just to clarify, the boxes give 250 hours
time with a 500 GB drive, so that'll increase to just over 1000 hours
recording time with a 2TB drive. I just wish as you say the information on hours remaining was announced by the box, though when you're running low on space and get down to around 18 hours the box does announce you're running 
low verbally. so at least there's some warning from the speech.

all the best,

Mo.


On 05/09/2012 13:15, John Land wrote:

Hello Ibrahim, (and anyone else who may be interested), Mo Iqbal has
just upgraded two Z500's for me with tb2 hard drives. You have to choose the drives carefully to give minimal heat output, as there are no vents in 
the unit's case, and no internal fan, despite a port on the back facia.
However both units are working fine (so far) and give hr117 capacity approx. Mo has done a very good job, and found ways to get arround all the problems he came across. The Z500 performs exactly the same as the dtr500hd, with the same idiosyncracies! (i.e. fast foreward, and fast rewind are disabled on playback of radio progs, and some timer recordings only record for min2, even when there are no conflicts). But this is the best machine with speach we are going to get, probably for the next five years I'm afraid. To access 
hours used, and hours remaing, press the "library" button, and the
information will appear on the screen. If you can't see the screen,, Tough 
Sh1t!!!
John
----- Original Message ----- From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu <mailto:ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx> 

To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:31 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: t-vonics hard drive upgrade highly
recommended

Hi Julie.

Was this mo by the way?  Please reply off list if you wish
to, however I seem to remember him advertising such a service but I never 
looked in to it because I have the Z500HD which is a bugger to get in to
because of its design apparently.

All the best, Ibrahim.

From: julie rodaway <mailto:guidingpaws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:08 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] t-vonics hard drive upgrade highly
recommended

Anybody contemplating having this done should not hesitate.
I sent mine to a member of this list who subsequently upgraded this for me to a two terabyte hard drive. The upgrade went without any hitch and was 
carried out quickly and effeciently.  As was pointed out, the voice no
longer stutters and the drive doesn't seem to freeze.  The price was
reasonable and all my recordings were transferred onto the new drive at my 
request.


Try it for yourself and I'm sure you won't regret it.

Kind regards, Julie.



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