Topfield TF 5000 PVR - Topfield Masterpiece 500GB: What is new?

Among the new features / changes in the technical area I will not say anything, which I understand too little. Here are just some of the practical use for non-technical users:
After our Topfield TF 5000 PVR showed initial failures after about 5 years of use, we decided in good time to buy a new device before eventually nothing works and all items stored are gone.
The choice fell back on a Topfield because the catchy handle easily convinced. With nearly all the manipulations verschaiedenen options on the screen for quick reference and note with appear, making long reference manual superfluous.
With previous experience in dealing with these kinds of devices, and with a little skill, the initial setup is relatively simple vonstatten. One problem there may be with the installation of some stations; Here the respective Freqzuenzen had to be entered manually, but this the supplier did not know but it gave us a technician here on site the tip.
Otherwise the handling in daily use is simple and logical: The selection and programming of broadcasts can be made via calling the program display (guide) on marking; However, it is recommended to extend the hours because can not be signaled by the respective transmitters program offsets (unlike the code programming the video recorder.
When Masterpiece the display is a bit bigger, but the program numbers appear smaller. For this is written out in full in scrolling text in the recording and the normal TV program in the channel letters and watching from the memory of the title of the recorded program.
In the previous unit we see better that by a clear red signal receiving a broadcast can be seen immediately on the display, which is recognizable only by concentrated inspection at Masterpiece.
The same applies when you call the list of saved program to: Was the old Topfield by different colored marker immediately the current lap recording a program recognized, there is this different colored marking at Masterpiece until you change the remote control at a previously stored title.
What excites me is always the easy operation of the most used functions. So I can select the screen immediately places that I want to watch or delete later on clicking the scroll bar (the shift-back). Although I can not delete while recording is in progress, however, immediately after recording statements. Not recommended is the device for all Pinieble who want a frame-accurate Delete. (For this is more of a device such as Pioneer DVR recommended 56OH, which must be changed to a different mode for this operation then.)
An improvement in the Masterpiece is the simultaneous display of a small format of the broadcast during ramp down (shift-back) - if, for example, the decision to launch a mission is taken only after the event (Each shipment may take up to one hour each be traced back as long as no change channels takes place.)
A serious disadvantage is the fact that the Masterpiece only displays if you have programmed two overlapping programs and looks a third live. The predecessor Topfield automatically left the third mission and moved to a the male. So now the decision and the right button for the desired print must be made, and I'm not even perceive the space around these remarks quickly and confidently, I have bad luck and the programmed recording will not start.