Foxtel's new ( OVER RATED ) PVR System for Foxtel Digital What a joke this box is LOL <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /> <br /><br />http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,12328677^15321^^nbv^15306,00.html<br /><br />FOXTEL Digital's IQ Personal Digital Recorder is likely to change the way we all view television.<br /><br />It may also interfere with the collective experience of watching something as a nation, and having water-cooler discussions about it the next day. <br />Whatever its effect, the IQ PDR will be here next month. <br /><br />The box contains a standard-definition set-top box, which works in concert with a 160GB hard drive (for about 60 hours of recording) and two television tuners. <br /><br />The device integrates Foxtel's Digital Guide, an electronic program guide that Foxtel will maintain in co-operation with the free-to-air networks. <br /><br />This will enable easy, one-button recording of any program in the guide, and even series recording, enabled by the green Series Link button, so every episode of a particular program on a channel will be recorded automatically. Using the PDR, viewers will be able watch programs at any time that suits them, rather than collectively, as we tend to do now. <br /><br />As with hard-drive DVD recorders, features such as chase play (watching the beginning of a recording while the device continues to record the end), will be on the PDR. <br /><br />In addition, the presence of the two tuners means users can record two programs simultaneously while watching a third pre-recorded show. Users can also pause live television if the phone rings or someone comes to the door, thanks to a section of the hard drive that can be set to record up to an hour of everything viewed. <br /><br />A bonus of this feature is that users can instantly rewind live television to check if a tennis shot was in or out, or to replay something missed. <br /><br />Most programs can be set to Keep status, for indefinite storage on the hard drive, but citing digital rights management, Foxtel says it will not make programs available for export from the hard drive. <br /><br />The IQ PDR will be widely available in early March and will be previewed in selected Myer stores. <br /><br />For existing Foxtel subscribers, the service costs a one-off access fee of $395, plus $100 installation, and then $5.95 a month. <br /><br />Newcomers to the service will pay standard installation fees as well.<br /><br /><br />my 2 cents worth <br /><br />$395 ( for the PVR box + $100 (For install) + $5.95 per month ( service fee )<br />what a joke this system is u pay all this money for it and you dont even get to own it yes the $395 doesn't mean u own it its still and always will remain the property of FOXTEL another one of foxtel's So called digital revolutions <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/default/rolleyes.gif" /> <br /><br />Dont see much use for it everything that is shown on foxtel is repeated to the death and some of the movies that u will record on it u will only be allowed to keep them on the PVR HDD for 2 days after that it gets deleted but wait it gets better u cannot transfer these files to your computer cause the smarties at foxtel have encrypted the file system and files and also disabled the USB port on it <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/default/rolleyes.gif" /> <br /><br />more info about this great ( crap ) Foxtel IQ box here http://www.foxteliq.com.au/