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Don't you have a "Return/Stop" button like on the N1?

Hello,

What kind of cables are you using? I haven't heard of satellite television being incompatible with the Neuros - I once had a somewhat similar problem, and it turned out that I had switched the video cable (using RCA/composite) with one of the audio cables. I still got audio from the other channel, plus staticky audio resulting from the video cable, and no video. (Note: I did this by accident, and would not recommend trying it on purpose for any reason.)

Wow, that's way worse than my 266 MHz iPaq 1940. I know WM5 imposes a heavy overhead, but that still sounds pretty crazy to me. On my iPaq, Sompy works at a usable level, but it's just much less "fluid" than TCPMP.

I guess it's not worth discussing anyway, though, since I don't know of any PPC on which it runs really well.

Because of the performance? Or did you have some other problem with it?

There is a new "offshoot" of TCPMP called Sompy Media Player for PocketPC... it comes with the AAC audio plugin by default. I'm sure glad to hear that, and it also has a nice user interface. Unfortunately, the performance is much worse than TCPMP at this time, even though it is supposedly based on the same code, but at least I no longer have to tell people, "Do a Google for the medium-ethics level of the Internet, and find that old AAC plugin for TCPMP 0.60..." My guess is that a faster PocketPC would still generate decent performance with it.

Is the N1 still supported/"eligible" for updates?

Yes - when I said that the 4 GBs are just starting to come out, or maybe not even that yet, I was referring to Memory Sticks, similarly to the rest of posts in the thread. CompactFlash cards are slightly ahead in maximum capacity.

This may not really help, but it is normal for Flip4Mac to do that. You have to pay for a more advanced version to get it out of "demo" mode. You can see its Preference Pane (in System Preferences) for more info.

I hope Flip4Mac is really good someday - but right now, it isn't.

Well, considering there have never been any firmware updates for either Neuros Recorder, I'm losing hope that there ever will be. It certainly could still happen, but, in general, I wouldn't buy things based on future promises - I have an N1 because the current firmware is acceptable to me.

(The one update listed for the N1 is actually just version 1.0, because some units with limited beta software were apparently sold briefly.)

Not to insult your intelligence or anything, but... did you set the N2's *clock* in addition to its timer?

As for the missing sound from the other poster, does this only happen on your PC or also when you play back directly from the Neuros? Are you sure you have the right audio codec on your computer?

Yep, I'm making two copies of the recording. It doesn't bother me because I have a backup in case the N1 crashes (it happens occasionally), and because VHS is higher quality than the N1's output. Besides, just rewinding the tape is not difficult - do you seriously think it would be easier to program an infrared remote to control some (unspecified) output device and make sure the infrared signals are always received and handled properly?

Of course you will have to program something to make a scheduled recording - I find VCRs easier to set up than the alternatives. (You know about Auto Record on the Neuros, right?)

Admittedly, I have had the VCR for years. I'm not necessarily saying you should buy a VCR and a Neuros if you're starting from "zero."

I can confirm a similar observation on my N1 with Normal quality, although it didn't bother me enough for me to mention it previously. Sometimes it looks a little brighter/washed out, and sometimes it just looks like the color depth has been greatly reduced (and it very well may have been, I'm not sure).

It seems to affect all input sources, although I'm not sure. I would call it kind of a "pastel" appearance. It is much more noticeable on a TV than on my PowerBook or iPaq.

Yes, and I mentioned VCRs because they can schedule different channels at different times. That's how I use my N1.

If you don't have a more advanced solution, you can use a plain-ol' VCR.

Just FYI, purchasing through Amazon actually just pipes you through to J&R; anyway. I did J&R-via-Amazon; and was satisfied with the results, although you should note that you will pay J&R;'s shipping rates, not Amazon's (which would've been cheaper in most cases).