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Friday November 17, 2006

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APC: REVIEW: Topfield TF6000PVRt

If you're sick of television networks dictating what you watch and when, a Personal Video Recorder could be your dream lounge room companion.

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Topfield TF6000PVRt

If you're sick of television networks dictating what you watch and when, a Personal Video Recorder could be your dream lounge room companion.



Topfield's TF6000PVRt

Topfield PVRs have dual standard definition tuners and record to a hard drive. They let you do cool things like pause and rewind live TV, record two programs at once and watch the beginning of a show while you're still recording the end. Thankfully, when you press "stop" it asks if you want to stop playing or recording. Another great features are the 10 second instant replay and the magic button to zap ads by skipping forward 30 seconds.

The TF6000PVRt's is Topfield's first recorder with wifi, plus it sports composite, component, s-video and SCART outputs as well as a SCART input (but it can't record from this). The 200GB hard drive is good for around 100 hours of recordings and automatically buffers the last 59 minutes of whatever you're watching, but this resets when you change channel. If you get an hour into a movie and wish you'd recorded it, you can even rewind to the start of the movie, hit record and skip back to where you were up to. While it's recording, you can also watch a previous recording. If you pause a live broadcast to make a coffee and then resume watching five minutes later, unfortunately it doesn't warn you against changing the channel - which deletes the buffer (it sounds like a stupid mistake to make, but the channel surfing habit is hard to break).

Topfield recorders can access IceTV's seven day Electronic Program Guide (EPG), a feature generally restricted to computer-based PVRs. IceTV lets you browse through the TV guide up to a week in advance and select which programs to record. Downloadable from the internet, it costs $3 per week but Topfield throws in a six month subscription.

The wifi feature lets you automatically download the IceTV guide. It also provides remote access, from computers on your network or on the internet, for scheduling recordings and transferring files to and from the device. Apart from copying MP3 files to the recorder the file transfer is of limited use, as you can't only play them on your PC or burn them to DVD without a complicated multi-step conversion process - the software for which is not provided. Only the keenest of enthusiasts would bother, especially since it takes about 80 minutes to copy a one hour show from the recorder to your PC via HTTP or FTP. The recorder can't access files across the network, so you have copy them back to the unit before you can play them again.

The Topfield range is desperately crying out for a DVD burner. The TF6000PVRt's other main shortcoming is it's only standard definition, as the release of Topfield's high definition TF7000PVRt has be on hold for 18 months. Even so, if you consider a seven day EPG an essential component of a PVR - but don't want a computer in your lounge room - the Topfield TF6000PVRt is the best money can buy in this country today.

Adam Turner

CONTACT Topfield Australia

PHONE 1300 889 803

ONLINE www.topfield.com.au

PRICE $AU1249 Convert It!

INTENDED MARKET Everyone

PROS can download IceTV guide via wifi

CONS not high defintion

VERDICT 4 / 5

First published in APC Magazine (December 2006). This is the unedited, extended copy - so it varies slightly from the magazine version.

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