Just upgraded from the mediastar SD twin tuner to the Beyonwiz DP-P2, 'only' has the 320Gb drive in it but I now hear tell they come with a 500Gb. Very easy to transfer recordings to an external HDD and use the tools listed at the Beyonwiz forms to edit and convert to mpeg2 (VideoReDo also works). Comes with an Ice-Tv trial, but Im using the free-to-air EPG for programming ok. Plays dvds and avi's off of an external HDD nicely, or these can be uploaded (via the PVR menu) to the internal HDD. The PVR's usb's do not like powering USB Ext HDD's so I have fitted a cheap powered hub to overcome this. The remote is a wee bit slow to respond, but once you're used to this small lag you learn not to get to many button presses ahead. The 'ad-skip' is adjustable forwards and back, the four cursor buttons can be assigned different skip durations. Cost me $800 from local Bing Lee for the 320Gb version, very happy with this PVR thus far
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