A few months ago I bought a new media centre to replace the old one, which started to have some problems. I really like this new Pioneer-set. Great amplifier with a BluRay-player and good all-around speakers. As said, I am really happy with this set.
But in the old set was a hard disk placed so I could record anything that was on TV. I hardly used this possibility of the old set, so when I bought the new Pioneer-set I thought I would not miss this. I was wrong. By now there have been quite some occasions that it would have been very handy to record something that was displayed on TV.
Today Tom showed me an offer for a BluRay player that also was equipped with a hard disk recorder and could also function as cable decoder. This started to make me think again, but what really stopped me was that I didn’t want to buy a BluRay-player while just very recently I bought a new one and a very good one with that.
But it made me ponder again about it. And I found something…
I found information on this cable-decoder (supported by my cable-company) that has an hard disk built-in. This hard disk can be used to record everything in HD quality. But that not alone, it is also fitted for TV on Demand, that means I can watch movies and series whenever I want it. And there are some more nice things to it.
But yes, it is spending money again. I talked with Marion about it. Her opinion was very simple. I enjoy this media stuff (tv, movies, streaming, computers and so on and so on) a lot and like to link it all up together. Marion said that when I enjoy this all so much, I should just go and buy this cable-decorder with hard disk.
And she will enjoy it as well, because she loves to watch movies together with me. So I ordered it tonight.
My old decoder? I will trash it? No, by a remark of Michiel today I got an idea. I will buy a HD TV-card for my computer. My old cable-decorder will move to the computers and will get connected to the TV card. This will make it possible to save things on TV to the computer. This all in HD quality. And it will be possible to save things I want to keep to DvD or an external hard disk.
It will be fun to play around with this!!!!