Hi all

I just got a Philips HDR612 (I think) on Friday and thanks to the tips from Shane and the nztivo.net guide I had it setup in a flash.

I have one slight problem - when I view stuff from the now playing list while recording another program the video tends to be a bit choppy every now and then. It's also a bit choppy watching live TV.

I have a 5400rpm Seagate 80G disk in at the mo but a mate has offered another 7200rpm 80G disk I would like to add in, so I am after a little advice.

Could the problems I'm experiencing be related to the speed of the disk? If I ghosted the existing image to the faster disk and used that as the master, will I see a performance increase or would it make no difference if I just added the faster disk as a secondary? I did not run a low level scan on the disk so is it likely some errors / bad sectors are causing the problem? I can't seen anything interesting in /var/log to indicate it is a bad disk.

Also I found a place in Oz selling the 9th tee CacheCard for $140AU and am thinking seriously about getting one (yes I've only had the TiVo for 3 days!) as the unit I have only has a 10mb TiVonet card. Is it worth getting the CacheCard at all? Will it help with the video problems? I also learned the max database size on a standalone S1 is 512MB so not much point in throwing more memory on the card right?

One last question - the nztivo.net instructions say to add the NZ emulator 210.48.107.133 on port 80 but I see people are talking about using port 8000 - have I got this wrong cos my guide data appears to be ok.

So many questions... sorry if it's a bit much, I'm sure some of you can help

Thanks heaps!

Matt