Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa
Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa
Customer Review: VISUALLY STUNNING
I have just received this book today and as soon as I opened it I was mesmerized. As a fashion design student I am constantly looking for inspiration, I have finally found a book that offers extraordinary, beautifully detailed photographs that would grace any Theme or Colour board. The devil is in the detail as they say, and this book certainly gives you plenty of that. The photography is superb and from a design point of view it conjures up hundreds of ideas for my fashion design work. There are very few words in this book and as such relies heavily on the visual elements of the tribal decoration, therefore, if you are after a book which offers explanations of each picture, this is not the one for you. Having said that I really don’t think this book needs words with photographs of such high standard, It is a stunning book and anyone buying it should love it because of it’s simplicity and artistic eye. I highly recommend getting this book if you are any kind of designer or artist. This book does not give a true understanding of the tribes it has photographed, in fact in some instances you do feel that the photographer has stylized his subjects purely for art, but I don’t care. I love this book.
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Philips DVDR610 Multi Region Capable DVD Recorder 
Used Price: ?75.00
Customer Review: Garbage
This dvd recorder has put me off Philips products for life. It is the worst piece of electrical equipment I have ever owned. As other reviewers have noticed it can simply stop in the middle of a recording. Some discs it simply will not read - on one occasion it would not read the second disc of a 4 disc boxset, even though every other dvd player I own would read it. Don’t waste your money.
Customer Review: Completely unreliable - avoid like the plague
Like many other reviewers I’ve had loads of problems with this infuriating machine. When it works it’s great but it will often switch off suddenly during a recording or on playing a disc so if you want to record something it’s a complete gamble. A friend of mine who has a similar Philips model has had the same problems. Also it will not recognise some discs which it has previously recorded on so you can’t even access wg=hat you’ve recorded. I ahould have known I suppose because my Philips dvd player also developed a fault. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Toshiba DR17DT DVD Recorder with Digital Tuner-1080p upscaling 
DVD RECORDER WITH INTERGRATED DIGITAL TUNER WITH HDMI UPSCALLING TO 1080I.
Used Price: ?50.00
Customer Review: Absolute Tosh
There are 3 things wrong with this product: 1. It is extremely user unfriendly (very complicated menus and bewildering options, including cryptic symbols that appear on the “Display” menu - great if you wear an anorak indoors and prefer browsing through the DVD manual to actually watching anything you’ve recorded). 2. The Freeview box works fine but when you record things it invariably records them in aspect ratio 4:3 and it is impossible to then play them back in 16:9 (I have a Sony HD ready widescreen tv). I’ve experimented with the aspect ratio settings (trying “Auto” and “16:9″ to no effect). 3. Perhaps the worst thing is the picture quality. It’s okay on SP - 2 hours per disc but there is no LP or, to be exact, what Toshiba call “LP” is really what other manufacturers call “EP” and gives you 4 hours per disc. This is annoying as many films are around two and a half hours long and LP is a good option to record them with. However, Toshiba’s “LP” (really EP) quality is terrible (worse than my old ?75 LiteOn DVD recorder) and it really isn’t worth recording anything at this setting. For some bonkers reason Toshiba have included there own “EP” (6 hours per disc) and “SLP” (8 hours per disc) but you’d have to be insane, blind or just a fan of low quality, blurry, pixelated crud (usually in 4:3 - ho, ho) to want to cram that much onto a disc. So, don’t waste your money. Buy something with a real LP option that also gets the aspect ratio right. This is the worst piece of technology I’ve ever bought!
Customer Review: not that impressed (yet)
I’ve only had this player 2 days but I must say my first impressions are not that great. On paper this machine seems to do everything, but I took a risk buying it as I couldn’t find any reviews for it online. My first comment is that it’s so s……l……o…….w. Put in a DVD movie and it takes an age for the menu to appear. Once playing a movie things are not much better. The 1080p upscaling (via HDMI) seems to work - however Iam not sure it’s any better than the xbox360 over VGA. The user interface looks dated and again is very slow to nativate around. I’ve yet to attempt any recording, but I hope it will score better in that area! So far only 3 stars (for HDMI output and styling).
