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In Topic: Riding During Songkran, Feasible?

2012-03-30 17:00:01

Kilgore Trout, on 2012-03-30 13:49:53, said:

CanInBKK, on 2012-03-28 10:53:18, said:

Semper, on 2012-03-28 09:46:53, said:

longstebe, on 2012-03-28 09:37:23, said:

@ David48

It was just some light hearted fun.
I don't think water being thrown over you would make you go blind for a few seconds but oil probably would.

Driving a bike 40-50 kmph and the unexpectedly being hit by a bucket of water will certainly make you go blind for several seconds, or being thrown off the bike.

In all honesty if its Sonkran, you're riding and you're approaching a bunch of people at the side the road standing next to a drum of water, if you get splashed "unexpectedly" you probably shouldn't be riding a motorcycle period.

I'm not advocating the splashing practice but if someone rides during this festival they should expect to arrive wet.

Tell that to the countless thais who have to work at 7-11's or wherever, serving YOU, for 6 thousand baht a month. Perhaps you could tell them to use their day's wages on taxi fare to and from work.

What you fail to realize is that most injuries and fatalities occur to Thais, and the number of dead in these three days is unbelievable. Blame the person throwing water, not the person getting hit genius.

What is your point, really? Aside from altering a quote which is a violation of Thaivisa rules, you also take it off on a tangent. Nowhere did I suggest minimum wage employees should take a taxi.

I think the bulk of the Songkran death toll, both automotive and motorcycle, should be attributed to alcohol, not getting splashed at the side of the road by water.

In Topic: Riding During Songkran, Feasible?

2012-03-28 10:53:18

Semper, on 2012-03-28 09:46:53, said:

longstebe, on 2012-03-28 09:37:23, said:

@ David48

It was just some light hearted fun.
I don't think water being thrown over you would make you go blind for a few seconds but oil probably would.

Driving a bike 40-50 kmph and the unexpectedly being hit by a bucket of water will certainly make you go blind for several seconds, or being thrown off the bike.

In all honesty if its Sonkran, you're riding and you're approaching a bunch of people at the side the road standing next to a drum of water, if you get splashed "unexpectedly" you probably shouldn't be riding a motorcycle period.

I'm not advocating the splashing practice but if someone rides during this festival they should expect to arrive wet.

In Topic: Using True Visions Hd Set-Top Box As Pvr With Esata Harddisk

2012-03-27 14:25:01

ColinChapman, on 2012-03-27 11:30:05, said:

Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to document their experiences here.  I thought I should add to the confusion!

As I was worried that the 99 baht promotion expires at the end of March, I thought I would go ahead and apply for it and sort out the HDD later.  My wife phoned True last Monday and verified that the the PVR functionality can be cancelled at any time, you do not have to sign up for one year or anything like that, so I figured the worst that could happen is that I waste a couple of hundred baht if I can't get it working in two months.  She then asked them to go ahead and switch on the PVR functionality.  The call centre operative told her that she couldn't do that herself, she would pass the request to the PVR team who would call us.

Having heard nothing by Sunday 25th, my wife phoned again.  The operative said that our request for service activation had been passed to the PVR team, but that they are very busy because many customers are interested and they are working through the waiting list.  My wife then asked what happens if they don't call us before 31st March - do we still get the promotional price because their records show we applied two weeks before it expired and the delay is caused by True Visions?  Based on Old Man River's experience above, you can probably guess the answer?  The promotion expires 31st March, if they don't call us by then, we do not get the promotion price and they can't tell us what the full price will be.

The operative also suggested that not everyone could have PVR functionality - the PVR team have to "check your port" to see if it is suitable!  Can I ask if the people who have the PVR functionality working are cable or satellite customers, as I know that satellite customers have only a restricted subset of HD channels and I wonder if there are some PVR restrictions as well?

This was my experience: I happened to remember about the PVR service while I was at work one morning so I called the standard 02-725-2525 number, followed the prompts for add-on services and was connected to a rep right away (no time on hold like when you call with a problem). The rep asked for my subscriber number, told me to hold for a few seconds and then came back to tell me my PVR service was ready for use. Later that day I made a quick stop at Pantip, found a suitable SATA drive and went home to try it out, within a minute of fiddling with the remote (not including the time it took to disassemble and reassemble the Hard disk enclosure) PVR service was up and running.

(I'm on satellite BTW, not by choice but because that's all my condo offers)

True has been okay in this regard but it puzzles me why they would offer us satellite users only one high-def movie channel when they could easily change the reality tv to Discovery-HD or Fox-HD (I realize there are probably royalties involved but it's not like we're paying a quarter of the price of HD on cable.

In Topic: Using True Visions Hd Set-Top Box As Pvr With Esata Harddisk

2012-03-27 11:11:26

ColinChapman, on 2012-03-24 14:03:28, said:

Hi CaninBKK,

Thanks very much for the info, exactly what I wanted to know. Could I ask a few more questions:

Does your drive have a separate power supply - I have been unable to find one with a socket that matches the outlet on the back of the box?

Do you have to leave it switched on all the time, or just switch it on before you switch on the set-top box?

What capacity drive and how long (roughly!) does it record for?

If you don't mind, about how much did it cost?

Thank you again.

The drive I'm using is a Seagate Goflex ultraportable 500GB that I bought at Pantip for 3200 Baht (IIRC). Note though that this is a USB 3.0 drive which I disassembled and put into a powered SATA enclosure. The power stays on full time but I'm not really concerned about the drive life being shorted - the internal specs of the drive itself is a Seagate Momentus 5400 so the spin rate is low; even if it fails I'd expect to get couple of years of use before it does.

When the drive was plugged in fresh, the PVR told me I had 82 hours of recording time left, I assume that a 1TB drive would be at least double.

In Topic: Using True Visions Hd Set-Top Box As Pvr With Esata Harddisk

2012-03-24 00:00:47

astral, on 2012-03-23 22:17:01, said:

I noticed a usb to eSATA conversion cable in my local computer shop,
so that will open up the disk possibilities.

A real PVR should have full timer settings and the ability to record one channel
whilst watching another, though they may have to be on the same satellite transponder.

Certainly you should be able to watch an already recorded programme, whilst recording a new one!!

Definitely. Once I changed from using a USB thumb drive to an eSATA hard drive I can record multiple programs while watching another, record entire series automatically, even switch audio from DD to PCM during movie playback.

One thing that really impresses me with the True PVR is the speed with which you switch between recorded programming and the seamlessness of how it integrates into the whole system. Definitely worth the purchase of a hard drive!