On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 13:47:20 +0000, alan_m <
ju...@admac.myzen.co.uk>
wrote:
>On 27/01/2024 13:03, AnthonyL wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I was one of a number of people who replaced the capacitors in
>>> Topfield PVRs with advice from the
Toppy.co.uk website/forum.
>>
>> Ditto, and dreading the day when everything goes HD.
>
>I had Toppy for very many years and ditched in favour of a Enigma 2
>receiver/PVR in 2014. Those Topfield designs must now be almost 20 years
>old and after Topfield abandoned their UK customer base (15 years ago)
>the boxes were only rescued from landfill by customers rewriting some of
>the software.
>
The one thing that swung my decision to go Topfield was the very fact
that customers could rewrite the software, and apart from the very
core, it was all rewritten. If you've never used the MyStuff suite
and the Taps that have been developed you've missed out on some of the
best thought out system that I've ever come across.
The Topfield supplied interface was as lacking as the weak capacitors
they managed to find to put on the main board.
I'll look at the Enigma in more detail as that appears to be Open
Source and just hope some of the Toppy enthusiasts have had an input.