Thompson Terrestrial Recorder is what it is. Not only don't I know how to use it, I really don't know what it does.
When I parted with my 27" Sony along with my house in the UK 7 years ago, these things didn't exist . . . did they?
I gather there are more free terrestrial transmission now, and that this box enables digital signals to be shown on, in this case, a 17" Crt type T/V.
However, it feels as though it has a hard-drive whirring away inside. Trouble is, it never seems to turn off. Red light on, and nothing but the old 5 stations on the telly, and it still runs warm - very warm - and vibrates in the way cheap hard-drives vibrate. Should it do this?
Dear friend puts a stringy doily thing over it, then a lamp on top of that, and then goes to America for 2 months! I normally cut all power, gas, and water . . . and then worry about the antenna porting lightning into the living room.
Some folk just don't think about these things, and go through life with a smile on their faces.
Anyway, can anyone tell me if I'm right about the drive. Surely it shouldn't run all the time. Pulling the mains plug degrades the signal to the telly.
Dear friend tells me she's not recording anything.