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Sounds interesting, depends on availability and pricing. But unless its 'fully compliant' (i.e. 'crippled from actually recording anything') there's no way it could be imported to North America without running afoul at the border. Small packages containing mysterious dongles (like the HDfury adapters) can be ordered by individuals and skip past inspection easily, but a larger box containing an obvious recording device is much more likely to get held up. We'll just have to see.I'm not particularly thrilled with recorders requiring a web connection to their own Guide service- TiVO may have pulled this off, but its been a mess for everyone else who tried it. This recorder also misses the mark in terms of the ridiculously unrealistic expectations Americans have: they want a cheap unit costing under $300 that REPLACES their cable box so they can avoid the monthly fee. This one appears designed to work WITH a cable decoder as an advanced accessory, a nice idea for those who can appreciate it but not the typical consumer.
Cable integration is the Holy Grail of American recorders: no one has managed it effectively except TiVO, where it comes at a stiff price and still requires cooperation/hardware from the cable service. Then of course we have the huge penetration of competing satellite services which aren't compatible with anything.While this MagicTV 7000D would probably not cut it as a mass market item in US/Canada, it would be great to have available as an alternative machine for those willing and able to understand its features. Hope it manages to get here in some form, even if we have to buy a 'Now' TV to go with it. I saw some chinese forums commenting that you could record it in 1080p from the HDMI input because people didn't want the Hauppauge also only in China.Now I saw a blog and wrote to the author of it to get more info but still hasn't responded take a look:It's a british living in hong kong,I also saw in my researchs that there exists another one but it doesn't have hdmi inputs and I think it only supports 1080i as component inputs the models are VD-Rhere is the website:The model the cheapest must be the 160 GB of course I will call them tomorrow and take a look and tell you what they said to me. Originally Posted by mmihalikHong Kong dollars.
Current conversion rate is about $510 USD.I'm going to check with one of my colleagues in Hong Kong.Cool man thanks please let us know about that me I would rather be interested in V DIGI since it has component input capabilities but I still need to know the exact price of the 160GB and the Rwo version (with no disk)Also I really need to know if it can record up to 1080i through the component inputs, one thing is certain the USB exportation of recorded shows is a whole new level. I'm glad the real point of my question was not lost on everyone. I am guessing that the tuner, as has been suggested here, is for Hong Kong stations, and in the U. Will be as useless as the one in my EH59. (The EH59 manual also has a page which shows an aerial antenna connected to the recorder with a coax cable that is connected to the Ant-In connection on the back. That doesn't mean it will work here in North America, because it does NOT work here.)Given this realization, that would mean the 3700, which only has dual tuner lilsted as an input, no video inputs at all, would be totally useless here.
This looks very good. I have had a little experience with some chinese brand devices and they always seem to give you a lot of features for you money. They usually give you all things you would want to have on known household brand device.The conneCtivity on this is awesome. I know not many use composite and S-video connections these days but its just nice to have those if ever you need to connect to some old school gear. Now if I can record to the hard drive via RCA’s and HDMI and transfer both ways via USB I would be pretty happy.
Now the big question, will the tuner work with Australian DVB-T? I think it might, if not, its probably not a big deal as I already have a HD Freeview set top box for free to air channels. Not real sure what they IR receiver shown with the blue leads is all about. It even runs on 12v DC.Very tempting but I wonder what other competing products there are?