Recent content by Hounddogman

I have an RM series replacement for my remote. It's stalled a couple of times already but pressing the source button usually works (I use a SCART connection). Yesterday it simply stopped working as I was paging through the cricket scores on the BBC text service and the screen image gradually...

What exactly are you on about? What has that got to do with the pronunciation of the word 'fuchsia'? What are you on? And you know absolutely nothing of my views on education (whether formal or liberal - a meaningless distinction anyway). As someone who was a senior research and policy analyst...

Another myth. This happened to some people maybe. It certainly didn't happen to me (and I went to school in the 50s and 60s) The point is, however, that this is, almost certainly, not an effective way of improving spelling performance (there's a large volune of researxch on this) but will...

Can't quite follow your reasoning here. Spelling is no longer taught as a specific subject in UK state schools (probably hasn't been for 50 years) but, in any case, there is no robust evidence that doing this resulted in better spelling performance. Spelling is examined in SATS1 and SATS2 (Age 7...

The headline quoted is, as I recall, from the Evening Standard in 1957 and was 'Sir Vivian Fuchs off to the Antarctic'. Fuchs was an English (but originally Austrian) explorer whose expeditionary team completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica in 1958. Fritz Spiegl included it in the...

I've had a similar problem lately: copying a folder to my external drive and watching a recording at the same time the screen occasionally turns black, the 'encrypted or scrambled' message appears and the only remedy is a power cycle.

I've taken out hard drives and replaced them with SSDs after cloning several times as well as cannibalising defunct machines (that 3-in-1 Packard Bell piece of crap that collapsed and died trying to load a Windows update for example). What I do almost always is get an enclosure and use the HDD...

Some 50-odd years ago some people I knew did research for something known as the Roskill Commission on what people thought should be the site of the third London airport. The various suggested sites would mostly involve despoiling large amounts of countryside apart from Maplin Sands (also known...

OK. Ignore that last message. The first time I tried the 'Source' thing it didn't appear to work. I tried again just now and it did. I don't think this was what was wrong with the original, there were buttons sticking or needing several presses to actually work with that, it must have degraded...

I started using my RDR T2 again in November after a period of six years living where I couldn't get a reliable terrestrial signal. My original remote stopped working after about six weeks so I got a replacement RM-F04 off Amazon in the RM series, I already had a replacement remote from them for...

It was in fact, as you thought, about to make a recording. When this finished formatting was enabled again and I have successfully formatted the external Seagate drive, it took a relatively short time. I have not yet tried to archive stuff but will do so later. Thanks for your time and advice...

It wasn't making a recording. I did boot the Seagate first, which seems to have caused the Humax to switch on as well. I gather this can cause problems. Both drives are visible and both have greyed out options for 'data storage' on the system menu. I will check this again.

I have a significant amount of video recordings stored on the internal hard drive of my HDR-Fox T2 that I want to retain and I am running out of space for new recordings (currently c 80 gig free). I would like to attach an external HDD to archive some of my existing recordings to and have a...

My apologies for a) taking so long to respond and b) creating confusion by insufficient thought before my posting. The device in question is in fact the HDR. My only excuse is, as I said, that the device has been unused for seven years while I have been using a TIVO instead and had forgotten the...

Apologies for dragging out this perennial topic. But I've been away from this forum for over six years and I can't find what I need to know now. Background: about ten years ago when my local broadcasts went digital I bought a Humax T2. Then I moved a few years later to a part of Sheffield where...