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... Well Ian from southern satellite told me on the 21st July he had sold 20 so hopefully by now maybe double this figure at least ... Hmm somehting is a bit...
Dave
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Aug 1, 2008
9:34 am
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That's good news that you get help direct from Vantage in this way. I read in the forums that Kathrein have a terrible name for giving users the brush off (I...
abmerrick
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Aug 1, 2008
9:59 am
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I'm about to order an 8000 and a large 750gb hard drive at the same time. One question I have is around formatting the hard drive. If I buy an uncased hard...
paulphillips70
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Aug 3, 2008
8:06 am
51
Can you transfer files off the Vantage 8000 using the ethernet cable? The manual doesn't mention it....
paulphillips70
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Aug 3, 2008
9:21 am
52
On the Haenlein Software website, in the receiver compatibility table for DVR-Studio Pro, they show both "LAN" and USB2" as methods for getting recordings from...
abmerrick
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Aug 3, 2008
3:11 pm
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... means ... owners ... thanks, sounds promising...
paulphillips70
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Aug 3, 2008
4:20 pm
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I am tempted to go for a 1TB internal drive - anyone installed a drive themselves successfully? Either the Seagate or Samsung 1TB drives seem to get good...
paulphillips70
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Aug 3, 2008
4:23 pm
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To answer my own question I installed the Seagate 1TB drive after Vantage said the Samsung didn't work for some reason. Its a tight fit in the box, the screws...
paulphillips70
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Aug 6, 2008
10:57 pm
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I think the Vantage PVR software is buggy - my Vantage 8000S managed to mess up a recording of the Olympic Games opening ceremony today in High Definition. It...
paulphillips70
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Aug 8, 2008
8:00 pm
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Good job Vantage doesn't run a brewery! ... From: paulphillips70 <paulphillipsdidsbury@...> To: vantagedigital@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 8,...
Roy Carman
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Aug 9, 2008
10:59 am
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... WEll I've got a 500GB 32MB cache seagate drive and recorded the whole of the Opening ceromony...But on playback not 100% smooth so rather fed up about...
Dave
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Aug 10, 2008
3:20 pm
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... managed ... in ... or ... I ... Yep it's not goog all this. I don't regret buying the 8000 just wish they would sort out the recording part. I know some...
Dave
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Aug 10, 2008
3:27 pm
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Now Now Dave you are beginning to sound like me about Vantage. I know an engineer who has been putting the Vantage 8000 under very severe testing and has found...
Roy Carman
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Aug 10, 2008
3:27 pm
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I've tried recording overnight - all the timed recordings are blotchy and jumping all over the place Manual HD recordings are also a problem I wonder if the...
paulphillips70
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Aug 10, 2008
5:21 pm
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Just checked some of my older recordings, and a few (stress only a few) HD recordings are ok. All my recordings are off BCC HD. So what is it that makes one...
paulphillips70
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Aug 10, 2008
6:07 pm
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... severe testing and has found that when used repeatedly it will suddenly loose all of its data, so suggest you back up your data. ... That sounds...
Dave
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Aug 10, 2008
6:51 pm
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... Vantage need to read all this...what HDD are you using though. Samsung are no go Vantage tell me with the 8000 I'll contact Vantage tomorrow...
Dave
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Aug 10, 2008
6:54 pm
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I'm using a Seagate 1TB drive ... blotchy ... keep ... Samsung...
paulphillips70
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Aug 10, 2008
10:16 pm
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I've done some more thinking around the question I asked below - i.e. "why are some HD recordings ok and others not?" What follows is a bit of a guess but I'd...
paulphillips70
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Aug 10, 2008
10:43 pm
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In my latest test record, I've managed to make my first 4 hour recording successfully (hurray), but this time I ran the box with the lid removed from the top....
paulphillips70
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Aug 11, 2008
6:38 am
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... This is from BBC HD and playback is fine say 1hr in ? I spoke to someone at Vantage and they say a fan / heatsink is not nessasary....they have tested for...
Dave
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Aug 11, 2008
12:10 pm
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Yes it is BBC I am recording. I can report a big success. Odd though it seems , taking the vantage box lid off (and exposing all the electricals to the air)...
paulphillips70
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Aug 11, 2008
7:53 pm
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Hi Paul. Interesting that you have to negate your warranty to get the darn thing to record properly, or rather play back. Yours.......Roy. ... From:...
Roy Carman
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Aug 11, 2008
8:50 pm
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... vantage ... forwarding ... What make of seagate are you using ie model no etc ? Perhaps I will try this tonight myself......
Dave
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Aug 11, 2008
9:45 pm
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Its a Seagate ST3100340AS 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm *32MB Cache* - OEM ... to ... (or...
paulphillips70
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Aug 11, 2008
11:33 pm
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So it's got to be a heat problem. The HDD runs just warm not almost hot to touch as before. No problem with playback 2 1/2, 4 and 6 hours in......
Dave
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Aug 12, 2008
8:50 am
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Pleased to see someone else gets the same results. Will you tell Vantage? I think they need to know and they haven't replied to my last email when I first...
paulphillips70
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Aug 12, 2008
11:12 pm
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... last ... I have indeed told vantage on the phone and email, I dom get good response from email myself this is what they say :- Hello, thank you for the...
Dave
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Aug 13, 2008
9:58 am
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I've just bought 2 Freecom drives to run with the Vantage. They are formatted FAT32 but when I select the drives, the Vantage immediately reboots and does...
paulphillips70
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Aug 14, 2008
5:45 pm
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I noticed some new beta software on the main Vantage site tonight for the 8000S, followed the instruction to back up receiver data and channel list, went on to...
Chris Stoddard
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