Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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Reedy off this site gave me a link the other day to some 'Bigpockets' site, which had a load of Pvr boxes without hard drives that were sent back to the factory and returned or refurbed if there was anything wrong... All units were working, but for legal reasons they couldn't re sell them on as 'new units', so had to get rid of them. Big pockets had stock of about 300 of these...
My mate sent me the link and for the PVR box with everything (remote etc) except the hard drive, it was £7.98 
So today my box turned up, I used a 160gb hard drive I had lying around spare, put it inside and ta da! a 160 gb pvr box for £7.98! It's got 2 freeview tuners built in so it allows you to watch 1 thing while record something else. It also has a 7 day television guide, which you just go through clicking 'record' on the items you want it to record.
Then sit back and forget about it, and it'll just do it all for you!
115 hrs of recording on 160gb  beats the hell out of swapping vhs all the time.
Bit of a big beastie tho, (and there's tape on the top in this pic) but for £8 who cares.
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16vOllie
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Registered: 5th Jun 05
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cool is that this.... link
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swedge
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www.bigpockets.co.uk
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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quote:
Originally posted by 16vOllie
cool is that this.... link
erm nearly, £1.99 there is for a box
this is it
http://www.bigpockets.co.uk/product.php?lang=&submenu=&menu=&product_id=24541&session=495659047268fae0187424ea32b4870a
price has gone up!! from £7.99 to about £11 and out of stock!
they've got some available now without remotes, but fuck that!
haha they sold about 500 of these within about a day.
Think pow off here has bought about 6 and reedy has bought about 8 so if you want one ask them
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Aaron
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Registered: 9th Aug 04
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Nice Xbox 
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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Yeh wish I had time to play it
Does Aaron = Aj  as I'm sure someone asked if you were Aj and you said you had no idea who they were on about
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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darn it paul U2U me shizzle like this when you get it
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Paul_J
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yeh sorry mate, I didn't know if it was legit or not at a the time, but thought £7 worth a punt, but thought people on cs would be pissed off if it ended up a scam.
I'm loving it, if I knew it'd of been this good i'd of got several.
Already got it set to record top gear every day of the week and a couple of things tonight. Then when i have nothing to watch i just go through the list watching what i fancy at that point in time.
Just started thinking, ffs I could do with one at home, as well as uni
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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My PVR arrived no probs... but look what Reedy recieved from them 
note he ordered and paid for 10 PVR's!!! ... this was what came in the post.
http://www.bigpockets.co.uk/product.php?lang=&submenu=&menu=&product_id=8953&session=039744d229b4fee78c74a21b4a6091ed
It's a Burger shaped CD case... worth 99p (his total order would've been near £70).
lucky guy!
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Reedy
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Registered: 11th Apr 04
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your telling me, im well miffed off about it.
Maybe its a free present for ordering so many
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Tommy L
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Registered: 21st Aug 06
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quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
Yeh wish I had time to play it
Does Aaron = Aj as I'm sure someone asked if you were Aj and you said you had no idea who they were on about
it is Aj. he just wont admit it even though i have evidence
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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sweet, just bought 4
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Reedy
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Registered: 11th Apr 04
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
sweet, just bought 4
you will get 4 burgers then
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
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my god he looks like robin
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Reedy
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
my god he looks like robin
haha. robin is a good mate of mine
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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Was that a pic of you Reedy? who was the guy I met at Trax
J/K haha...
Can't believe you spent £130 on a burger CD case.
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Reedy
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Registered: 11th Apr 04
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quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
Was that a pic of you Reedy? who was the guy I met at Trax
J/K haha...
Can't believe you spent £130 on a burger CD case.
ha ha. my hair is a little long, maybe time for a haircut. I was gonna go for a classic programmer haircut
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flame1987
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Registered: 20th Nov 06
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thanks just gonna order one now
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Paul_J
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Reedy your hair was longer when i met you, down to your sholders almost!
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Reedy
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Registered: 11th Apr 04
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not that long lol, i just had bad helmet hair
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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have they got them in stock? says they have, but im not spending 11 quid on a burger CD case
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luciaadr
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Registered: 11th Aug 04
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I got an email saying they were back in stock. ordered it then checked here and saw about the burger case !
£11 (plus £5 postage which no-one has mentioned yet)
Heres hoping, i'll post back when (if) it arrives
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
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I ordered 5, recieved 4... wondering if another one should be arriving or not.
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Demo
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Registered: 27th Sep 01
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do these work with sky?
ie you can convert your sky to sky+ (kind of)
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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im guessing there IDE?
Also, did you get your cash back, POW/Reedy?
[Edited on 06-03-2008 by Dom]
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