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Agamemnon

Well, I have some sympathy with your wish that things were other than they are, but they aren't. It is not (in general) possible to convert the DVB transport stream into a valid DVD format without a significant amount of processing, despite the fact that they both use MPEG-2. And I'm sure you would be the first person on here complaining if your new PVR-DVD-R wrote DVDs that your aunty's DVD player couldn't play. You'd be telling us how stupid it all was.

You'll find something not to like, trust me.

I've reviewed what I've written, and determined that all the correct words are present, and most of them are in the right order. If you still don't understand what I'm saying, it is probably beyond my power to buttist you further. I do note, however, that you have now slipped in the requirement to be able to record complete multiplexes. You really are never satisfied, are you?

Right. So you've moved from complaining about there not being any twin tuner PVRs with built-in DVD-Rs to denouncing the DVD format itself. That's progress of a sort, I suppose. So we'll take your original requirement off the list, shall we?

Yes, quite right. Everybody but you is a fool.

Betamax didn't really last that long. It suffered a slow, lingering rest following a not very illustrious career (and I speak as someone who still has a Sony C7 in his loft - about £1500 worth of kit, at 2005 prices, apparently). DVD, on the other hand, has been phenomenally successful.

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