PURE Chronos iDock, DAB Digital and FM clock radio with iPod Dock (black)
DAB digital and FM clock radio with iPod Dock

Customer Review: Poorly made, poor sound, poor customer service
2 stars for a good ipod interface and easy to use setup.

3 stars off for poor build quality (mine had the high pitch whining noise), poor sound (don’t try to play anything with a bassline) and poor customer service (despite this being “unfortunately” a known fault, I got no apology and was made to feel like I was splitting hairs for bringing it up).

Mine’s gone back.

Customer Review: Pure idock
I compared this to the intempo and this is much better than the latter. The features are fantastic (especially the ipod functionality), it is very user-friendly and it is a great size (much smaller than the pics suggest). Everyone goes on about the sleek look of the intempo but I think this one actually looks cooler. The only downsides are a slight buzz at very low volumes (it’s fine though) and the fact that you can’t use the remote to go through your presets, but they are far outweighed by the upsides.

I am very happy with it and I am pretty fussy about these things.

Raf

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Geniatech USB 2.0 NTSC TV Tuner Stick - U728
Geniatech U728 is Pen-size USB TV Stick which turns your PC into a multimedia center. The slim and compact design make it truly portable! Enjoy NTSC/PAL TV entertainment whenever you like and wherever you go. This device also acts as a PVR (personal video recorder) with scheduling capability and time shifting function. Features: Watch TV on your laptop or desktop. Worldwide support of NTSC, PAL, and SECAM. Supports up to 181 channels. Rewind and fast forward live TV shows with Time Shifting recording Auto-scan and full channel scan Schedule TV recording and save directly to your HDD Full function remote control USB bus power, no extra power adapter required Still image snapshot, save image to BMP file Support FM Radio Support Windows XP/Vista Specification: Input Terminal: 75Ohm IEC (PAL) Connector Receiving Frequency: TV: 48.25~863.25MHz Fully PAL/NTSC/SECAM TV standard Compliant USB Interface Universal Serial Bus2.0 Standard B Type USB male Connector System Requirements: P4-1.4GHz CPU or above 128 MB RAM (minimum), 256 MB RAM recommended VGA card with 32MB. CD-ROM Microsoft DIRECTX9.0 or above Windows XP Service Pack 2/Vista 32bit OS One free USB2.0 interface Available 30M HDD (install driver and application), add 600M/h-3G/h for recording Package Contents: Geniatech U728 Remote control with battery USB Cable Quick Installation Guide Drivers and application CD

Western Digital My Book 2 Essential 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
Save space on your PC’s hard drive and store your photos, music, videos and other important files on the My Book II Essential Edition external hard drive. You won’t believe how easy it is to configure and use!
Customer Review: SENSIBLE PRECAUTIONS
Bought this drive & had it for a few days, so far its fine, here are some tips though: My system is an XP laptop upgraded to Vista Business 6 months ago, so Pros: 1. Compact & quiet, infact my laptop hardrive i can hear over the WD drive. Its virtually silent. Runs very cool. 2. Its plug & play so will work within a few minutes of plugging in. Cons: 1. Comes formatted as FAT32, if your running Vista or XP then your existing system will most likely be NTFS. So reformat to NTFS using the Windows quick format. KEEP IT ALL THE SAME!!! BE WARNED THOUGH FOMATTING OR REFORMATTING ANY HARD DRIVE DELETES EVERYTHING ON IT! So copy off the user manual & other files that come on the drive first to your desktop then put them back on after the reformat. If you do lose the software that comes with it, you can download it at the website, once you’ve registered the product. 2. The Memeo backup software is only a trail version, i think this should be free as standard, so its a waste of time installing this. As it won’t work untill you purchase it after the 30 day trial period! I USE WINDOWS ENTIRE PC BACKUP INSTEAD THAT COMES WITH VISTA. THEN BACK UP MANUALLY ONCE A WEEK! 3. It’s 930GB not 1TB, not really a con, as with most hard drives, you don’t get the full useable capacity. It is a 1TB drive but there will be base files needed to make it work that have to be there so you get 930GB. Always buy a bigger drive than you need to get around this issue!!! Summary then: 1. Reformat to NTFS 2. Keep this drive in the upright position always. 3. Don’t knock it about or keep moving it. 4. Don’t bother using the software that comes with it. 5. If this is used for backup then it’s good practice anyway to keep two seperate hard drives & from different manufacturers even to reduce the risk of any data loss, should one drive go down you’ve got the other. I don’t trust any pc related equipment! Then again two backups of the same data should be done as standard. 5.If disconnecting any hardware from a pc i would always ensure everything is switched off, it only take a bit of static to destroy your files & your pc. This all helps to save your files. DO NOT UNPLUG THIS DRIVE FROM YOUR PC WHILE BOTH ARE SWITCHED ON, YOU MAY LOSE EVERYTHING ON IT! & KNACKER YOUR PC TOO!!! I’ve yet to see how the long term reliability is, as other reviews say they have failures after 6 months or so. We’ll see then.
Customer Review: Awesome
For the price of this item, you would probably expect tosh, but wow, this is just awesome, the HD is big enough to back up all my cd’s of which i have hundreds and also my entire hard drives of personal data and university work, great buy and highly highly recommended

Sony SVR-S500 - Digital TV Recorder (DVR) with 80GB Hard Drive and Freeview
With a Twin Freeview tuner and the 80GB HDD you will never miss aprogram with the SVRS500.
Used Price: ?72.95
Customer Review: ABSOLUTELY EXCELLENT
CAN’T FAULT THIS RECORDER? SIMLE TO USE, GOOD VALUE, AND REALLY GOOD TO USR, EXCELLENT ALL ROUND USED FOR 10 WEEKS NO TROUBLE ATALL?
Customer Review: Love it…
Many negative reviews below, BUT (fingers crossed) I’ve had mine up and running a week now and - well, yes, it’s a bit slow, and no, it’s not completely silent, but I still LOVE it. No messing with DVDs, you can see exactly how much room you have on the hard drive, I can pause and rewind TV whenever, and you can be recording 2 programmes at once while watching something else you recorded all at the same time (where else can you get that?)! Channel 5 reception not fantastic but also never was with my last freeview box, so it’s not really bothering me. I may one day be tempted into cable because it’s pretty much picture perfect ALL the time, but I’ll still have it hooked up to this machine for recording. I had a true electrickery anorak (and perfectionist) come round the other day and he made very impressed noises about how excellent it was for the price, so I’ve got no complaints. Think the answer is to not have it in your bedroom if you’re a light sleeper. See also review below by Allan Kelly below from 12 Aug 07, very helpful.