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Did it hum in tune?

Bill

You touch there on my belief (very unpopular) that the ability to amass money is a more valid test of IQ than any academic method.

Bill

Dog, cat, anything?

Bill

Kodak seems to be just a badge put on a lot of bought in rubbish. Unfortunately people remember a 'brand' from the past (in some cases from the recent past) and associate the products as being quality. Often the brand name has been sold on or the business model has changed.

In the consumer market I associate Kodak with film that no-one now uses so its no wonder that to make money the name appears on other products now. The products for which the brand awareness was associated no longer are in fashion.

En el artículo , Davey escribió:

From the pics, looks like the "upgrade" consists of sticking beefier caps on the voltage regulator outputs by desoldering the existing surface-mount ones and bodging on axial-lead electros. A bargain for

The soldering's a bit s*it too.

Useful to know. Having rejected those costing £20 or more in Maplins, Currys etc, I opted for one costing about £2 from some ebay seller, which worked fine. Then I discovered Poundland and was annoyed that I'd failed to survey the market properly.

Incidentally, I don't know if they do HDMI cables, but my experience is that the 99p store chain has goods which are even better value for money. One or two things I've got from Poundland have been so shoddy that I've had to take them back for a refund.

Cat-5

Tut tut! Get your arse down to ToysRUs and buy some proper toys!

According to a friend who has investigated this, they missed replacing caps on the audio output, used an IEC mains socket earthed to the case (originally a double insulated item, so now original makers safety & EMC certification non-compliant unless RA retested), bodged a mains filter held with hot melt glue, used short service life 85degC caps near hot parts. Another modification involved an added regulator and a 555 timer

- heaven knows what for. Watchdog reset?

To balance, there are other companies that offer a similar service but at least their customers aren't treated like fools and not told the technical justification for the upgrades - just pseudo science and the price.

Humax were approached for comment, I can't share that here - but you can guess....

I am wondering why he had covered cables in s*it so he could do a comparison.

Poundland do reasonable cat 5 but you don't need to spend that much for a good cat 5 cable.

If you are using hdmi output none of what they do matters with the possible reduction in noise from the disk. You can make that silent with an ssd if you want (but not advisable as they record continuously and would wear out rather quick).

Yup, 20m of Belkin branded for a quid... :-)

Quite right. That's why they pay people to write fake reviews of them:

-- Richard

I had read that the early SSDs could be fragile with constant writes, but I thought they were now much better, and way beyond electro-mechanical disks in terms of reliability.

If cost wasn't too much of a problem I'd have thought an SSD would be ideal in a PVR.

They wear out. They have a lifetime write limit, usually in the few tens of terrabytes. Once you get that high the wear levelling has done all it can and the chances of failure start to increase rapidly.

Here's a "to-the-death" test of a (non-representative) sample of various SSDs being constantly written to

Meanwhile for spinning rust, this company (who sell online backup as a service) publish their failure rates across tens of thousands of drives from various manufacturers

En el artículo , Adrian Caspersz escribió:

Were there many 4-letter words?

And yet they did not test the Sandisk Extreme II which I've found to be bombproof to date (2 years solid use) - not that I have tried to destroy mine.