Just recieved my copy of the Radio Times for next week, it claims that on next Tuesdays Pulling Power (19th August) on ITV 10:30pm there will be a review of the RX8!!

:D

 

Cool!

 

Tivotastic !!!!!:p

 

Good news, must remember to set the vid to watch it over and over again :D

 

Good- for those who live in the right TV region!! I'll be watching a documentary on carrot farming.

Hope one of you guys will be good enough to post a review of the review.

Cheers
JH

 

Hmmm! Carrot farming sounds interesting. When compared with "The Real Coronation Street". Rather have the RX-8 review program.

Anybody know when it's on ITV2, or could one of you wonderful TIVO owners do us a big favour.

 

AGH Its not on Yorkshire ITV?!?! :o

There are lots of episodes on Granada Men & Motors according to TiVo but none on ITV2. Anyone know if one of those will have the RX8 on?

What does the Radio Times say exactly?

 

Well I'm not sure how a Tivo gives you a bug favour but mine lists the follwing shows;

Episode Num Channel Date Time
Episode 6 GMM Thu 14th Aug 19:00
Episode 6 GMM Fri 15th Aug 13:00
Episode 10 GMM Sat 16th Aug 19:30
UNKNOWN GMM Sun 17th Aug 13:30
Episode 10 GMM Tue 19th Aug 21:30
UNKNOWN ITV1LON Tue 19th Aug 22:30
UNKNOWN ITV1CEN Tue 19th Aug 22:30
UNKNOWN ITV1LON Tue 19th Aug 22:30
UNKNOWN ITV1CEN Tue 19th Aug 22:30
Episode 10 GMM Wed 20th Aug 16:30
Episode 10 GMM Thu 21st Aug 19:00
UNKNOWN ITV1WCY Thu 21st Aug 23:30
UNKNOWN ITV1WE Thu 21st Aug 23:30
UNKNOWN ITV1WCY Thu 21st Aug 23:30
UNKNOWN ITV1WE Thu 21st Aug 23:30
UNKNOWN GMM Fri 22nd Aug 13:00
UNKNOWN GMM Sat 23rd Aug 19:30
UNKNOWN GMM Sun 24th Aug 13:30
UNKNOWN GMM Tue 26th Aug 21:30
UNKNOWN GMM Wed 27th Aug 16:30
UNKNOWN GMM Thu 28th Aug 19:00
UNKNOWN GMM Fri 29th Aug 13:00
UNKNOWN GMM Sat 30th Aug 19:30
UNKNOWN GMM Sun 31st Aug 13:30

 

If, like me, you use a Pace Freeview Twin recorder then you'll know all about bugs and it isn't favourable!

 

ITV Website says:

22:30 Tues 19th ITV1 London
Pulling Power
Michele Newman test-drives the Mazda RX8 coupe and Mike Rutherford watches the latest Peugeot commercial being made

 

As I'm in yorkshire, can anyone record this?
I didn't get to see the 350z review for the same reasons.


I'm sure we'll have plenty of happy forum members if someone posts the video review


Stu C

 

I assume that you guys know that the "Big Tivo Favour" we're refering to is to record it on your Tivo... and download it onto the PC as an MPEG file and post it on MY FTP server.

Yes, you CAN do that... you first need an ethernet card for the Tivo (Yes, they do exist... and better you can get the channel listing over broadband with it)... and then some slightly modified Tivo software will allow you to download the programs onto your PC...

No, I don't have a Tivo because they stopped selling them before I got round to it, but Yes, I do know people who have then and have done this... Sadly, none of them are in the right TV regeon...

 

Hi Guys,

My first post! And possibly a helpful one!

If you want to watch another ITV region (to perhaps watch the Rx8 review) and you've got a sky box then your in luck.

Goto Services, Add channels and enter in the following details:
10.832, H, 22, 5/6 - then press search and a list of ITV channels will appear. Select the channels by pressing the yella button and press select when completed.

Repeat the above steps with these other settings:
10.891, H, 22, 5/6
10.906, V, 22, 5/6

This will give all the ITV regions (differing regions per frequency).

When you want to watch the channel, goto Services, Other channels and select the ITV region you want.

Only 2 issues with this.....

1. No personal planner or program listings are available so you'll have to put a post-it note on the telly to remind yourselfs.

2. Sky sometimes resets the additional channels so you might have to go through the setup process again.

I've done it on my Grundig box and it worked perfectly. Tueday 19th here we come!

I hope this helps,

Stuart

 

Not wanting to be unkind, but what is Michelle Newman's background?, as after watching a couple of these programs she seems just to be reading from a script and doesnt give the impression she is an enthusiast in the same way as VB-H is.

Maybe Mr Rutherford will have already told her what to say anyway :D

 

Right, I'll be printing this out then!! Off to my sky box I go...

If this works Then you have made me very happy! :D :D :D :D :D (see?)

Stu C

 

MarkW, you've probably watched Central News where Michelle Newman was a newsreader. She knows as much about cars, as my next door neighbours' cat! I know, from reading Autoexpress, that M Rutherford has driven the car so maybe he has written the script for her, but still she carries no street cred points. And if we're really unlucky, she'll mention Formula Women.


AnilS.


P.S. I'd better get out the video instruction manual, as I'm on holiday next week. Just my luck.

 

I have Sky plus so if I will record it, I will then probably keep watching it over and over again like I did with the top gear 10 second preview.

Although I have never done it there is a facility of copying it, I could theoretically do this and then put onto a website. Does anyone know how easy this would be?

Ed

 

I thought that SKY+ specifically made this impossible... but if anyone can tell me how to get an ethernet card in a skyplus and copy the video's to a PC then I know a lot of people who will buy them!!!

 

I'll try ti get it onto an FTP site or even Kazaa lite as soon as the episode has finished.
Most people will be watching it on the night anyway, but I shall be keeping the Tivo recording and just keep watching and watching.

:D

 

That's the next mod on my list. I've just finished disk upgrades, to up the tivo to 240GB of space (180 hours !)

But until then I can't get anything out of it. I don't have a capture card on my PC either, so the analogue route won't work either.

 

If you get the thing as an MPEG then feel free to upload it to my FTP server, I'm happy to mirror it

ftp.fsck.co.uk
U/P = rx8/mazda

You'll need to put it in the "incoming" directory

 

Damn I have everything, video input, realtime DivX encoding, fast connection (in work) and loads of drive space., the only thing I dont have is the channel. Grrrr!

 

Titanium Grey, if you've got a sky box then goto page 1 of this thread and follow my instructions. We can then all enjoy it and have a "door and a half" wide grin next Wednesday.

 

No, Freeview only.

 

I've been doing some research on the SKY + to Digital recording and found the following site useful which deals with Tivo as well
For fellow gadget lovers - another forum to take up all that spare time you don't have!

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/f/35/ds.html

Ed