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. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq