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Olympus VN-2100PC Digital Voice Recorder with microphone

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Sound and Vision
from: Olympus

August 21, 2007
Appears fine at first, but the controls have a very annoying fault - fast forwarding or rewinding is done with the same buttons that jump to another file either forward or backward, and it's very easy to accidentally jump to the end of a recording - very irritating when you're 20 minutes in to a 90 minute interview. I agree with the other comments re: Digital Wave Player - it's a pain, and life would be far simpler if the recorder could be plugged into any PC and seen as an external hard drive from which to drag and drop audio files.
Worse still, my VN-2100PC has now packed up altogether. It won't transfer files via DWP without an error message popping up halfway through the process, and it dies without warning even on fresh batteries. ... Read More:

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6 Jim Dunlop Tortex Picks

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Sound and Vision
from: Jim Dunlop


Appears fine at first, but the controls have a very annoying fault - fast forwarding or rewinding is done with the same buttons that jump to another file either forward or backward, and it's very easy to accidentally jump to the end of a recording - very irritating when you're 20 minutes in to a 90 minute interview. I agree with the other comments re: Digital Wave Player - it's a pain, and life would be far simpler if the recorder could be plugged into any PC and seen as an external hard drive from which to drag and drop audio files.
Worse still, my VN-2100PC has now packed up altogether. It won't transfer files via DWP without an error message popping up halfway through the process, and it dies without warning even on fresh batteries. ... Read More:

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Strand Gold Plated Scart to Scart Lead 1.5m

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Sound and Vision
from: Strand


Ordered this cable at the same time I ordered PVR from another supplier on 18th June. PVR arrived on 20th.
The cable finally arrived this morning, 25th.
Happily the PVR came with its own cable-however,the downside to this was that the cable was cheap and caused a lot of "ghosting".
The Strand cable has cured most of the "ghosting", and, as such, is very good value for the unit cost and P&P- if you can afford to wait for delivery, that is.

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Strand Set Top TV / FM Indoor Aerial with built-in signal booster

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Sound and Vision
from: Strand

March 08, 2006
I was bit disappointed by this product. Aerial didn't work at my place so I tried at friend's place it didn't work there either.

I may be just unlucky at my place but I had same result at both places.

I won't recommend this product.

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TDK Audio Cassette Tape 90min 5 Pack

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Sound and Vision
from: TDK Media


I was bit disappointed by this product. Aerial didn't work at my place so I tried at friend's place it didn't work there either.

I may be just unlucky at my place but I had same result at both places.

I won't recommend this product.

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Global Comms tvLINK Black

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Sound and Vision
from: Global Communications


Using this neat and very well priced gizmo I can now (to the annoyance of my partner) change Sky HD channels from a different room. My full setup allowed for a new coax cable (CT100) to be run from the Sky HD box to the second TV which has proved flawless in operation. It is not routed through any other equipment and doesn't have to be plugged into the second TV aerial output (main picture and sound is through a seperate HD lead) - thus freeing this outlet up for the terrestial aerial input. You do have to follow the instruction as you must enable the output on the Sky box but in doing so product performed straight away.

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Philips SVC2520/10 - DVD Lens Cleaner

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Sound and Vision
from: Philips

May 21, 2007
Brand new TDK DVDs that I had burned on my iMac would not read or show up on the desktop. As the computer is now four years old I feared I may have to buy a new optical drive. I thought I would try this product first and... it actually worked after only one session which takes all of a minute to complete! Now the drive whirrs properly and the disks show up and read fine.
I'm extremely pleased, especially as the price is so cheap. If you are having similar problems with your Mac I would definitely consider trying this before any more expensive option.

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PURE EVOKE-1S (maple) Luxury portable DAB digital & FM radio

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Sound and Vision
from: Pure

August 29, 2007
I have been using this model now for seven months,and apart from only getting about fifteen channels, when I thought I would get dozens as it's digital I am still quite pleased with it.But what really made me sit down and write this review is that I had to send it back today as it started playing up which does happen, (but you do get a two year warranty).Unfortunately you have to send it back to pure at your expense which is not cheap as you need to insure it as well for peace of mind. If you buy it from amazon like I did they will only exchange it within six months after which you will have to send it back to pure. Bear that in mind if you are buying one (it's a lot easier taking it back to a local store) under pures two year warranty.

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Sony DVPNS708 DVD Player with 1080 Up-scaling - Black

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Sound and Vision
from: Sony

March 10, 2008
I bought this product on the basis it was multi-regional. It was not, and if someone tells you to take it to your local Sony Shop and they will do it for you, they will, but for £50. Not Happy!

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Scart Adapter Switchable Plug to Socket

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Sound and Vision
from: Psylins


I got this gizmo as part of a package deal (the other part being the EZ Grabber) because I want to convert old VHS tapes in to PC files. It made connecting the PC to the VCR via the grabber interface an absolute walk in the park. Really - it's difficult to imagine how anybody could make a mess of the job.

One small point - it looks different to the one shown in the picture (which is a bit naughty, I suppose, but such is life. That silver bit that looks like some other kind of connector on the side opposite the scart socket is where the red, yellow, white and S-Video connectors are.

Just thought I'd mention that in case you know what that sort of stuff is all about and might get caught out.