Peak performance from Pinnacle

Advantages: Excellent customer services, they phone you, they listen to you
Disadvantages: None that I have come across

...insurance. We pay life insurance in case we die in debt. Who collects it? The poor sod that has paid it, hardly! I could go on but I won’t, as this is a positive review about an excellent company that I had to deal with recently. The name of that company is Pinnacle Insurance PLC. Initially I had no idea that I would be dealing with them but I shall explain that matter as this tale unfolds. As some of you will be aware earlier this year I was unable to work for three months due to a serious incapacity. At the point when I realised that I would not be returning to work as quickly as I had envisaged I remembered that I had some payment protection insurance on the finance that I had taken out to pay for my computer. My original intent was to pay after the 9 months interest free period but I foolishly spent the money. I dug...

SparkyDeighton 26.07.2002 (28.06.2004) · Read review
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The Pinnacle Stratus 3.0 E is a good value hybrid

Advantages: Internal hub gears, sturdy frame, nice finish, responsive ride, great price
Disadvantages: Right brake lever could be longer, high Q factor, poor pedal design

...PINNACLE STRATUS 3.0E Product reviews, out of necessity, are full of relative descriptions and judgements based on comparison with a similar product familiar to the reviewer. Therefore, a reviewer?s experience very much affects the review outcome. Reviewers with little or no experience to call upon are likely to compare the product with their own expectations (be they reasonable or not). My review is no exception but I?ll say up front that my experience of adult bicycles is limited to a GT Tequesta mountain bike (steel frame, 3x7 derailuer gears & no suspension) and two lightweight tourers (both with Reynolds 531 steel frame, one with 700C alloy rims and 2x7 speed derailleur gears and the older tourer with 26? steel rims and Sturmey Archer 4 speed internal hub gears). Each tourer was fitted with new parts as they wore over...

dogfonos 22.09.2009 · Read review
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Pinnacle DC10+ Video capture and editing

Advantages: cheap, fair quality images, easy to use
Disadvantages: needs a good sound card, some capture problems

...The Pinnacle DC10+ is a good few years old now but I thought I'd review it in case anyone was still using analogue video equipment and was looking for something to help them edit their videos. Units regularly turn up on eBay so they should be fairly easy to find if you think it's the device for you. On with the review! Whilst most people have moved over to digital video using either Digital8 or DV, some camcorder users are still more than happy with their Hi8, Video8 and even (shudder) VHS-C machines. The digital users have the luxury of Firewire and its ease of use when capturing and re-recording edited footage. However, the analogue users have to look to slightly more complex hardware to do the job. The Pinnacle Studio DC10+ consists of a PCI card and editing software. The card installs effortlessly as does the software. The card...

ilaskey 03.05.2007 · Read review
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  A Pinnacle Of Achievement, But At What

Advantages: Versatile
Disadvantages: Excels at nothing

...Pinnacle Instant CD+DVD v7.0 is a puzzling software package to button-hole. Normally, Pinnacle are in at the ?top-end? of TV and VCD/DVD editing and production, quite often including some hardware, like a Video & TV capture card in with their package. Whilst these packages are no doubt difficult to master entirely, (and let?s face it, who does before they bring out an upgrade?), it?s usually quite easy to see what their prime purpose in life is Therefore, I was quite surprised when out for a meal one night, to espy in a shop window, the proclamation ?Pinnacle Instant CD+DVD Copy, perfect DVD copies?. Hunger got the better of me, and I walked (or was it got dragged?) on. It wasn?t till a few days later when strolling around (garlic and crucifix at the ready) PC World, that it dawned on me that I was staring the very product in...

BNibbles 23.06.2003 · Read review
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Pinnacle SoundBridge

Advantages: easy set up, a quick solution to music streaming
Disadvantages: sound quality does not match original source.

...The Pinnacle SoundBridge media hub is a smashing device considering the price of around £50.00 Its versatile and is fairly easy to set up and seamlessly connects to your wireless router in order to give you easy access to Internet radio. There are loads preset and you have the option of browsing 'regions' to identify your favourite local stations available on the web. I did find that my local station wasn't listed and although it comes with radio snooper software I've failed to get this to work properly. The device happily finds both my windows media files and itunes folder and allows you to browse and play these tunes through speakers or your hi-fi if you connect this using a spare phono socket. The sound quality is a little dissapointing as it lacks the natural volume and depth of the original source. The other problem is that...

MarcD2 05.02.2008 · Read review
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My experience with Pinnacle Studio MovieBoard

Advantages: worth is price, good results to the end movies
Disadvantages: Hard to install and to operarate.

...I bought the Pinnacle Studio MovieBoard, Installed it my computer, had allot of problem with compatibility and had to run forth and backwards to dealer until it was fixed. After that inconvenience and when it worked, it was pretty complicated and not very user friendly, I'm considered a good computer wizard and it took me some time to understand how to operate it. But in the end when I learned, it gave very good results, it more or less worth is price and is recommended, but take your time to learn deeply first the user manual and all other relevant documents. Otherwise you will suffer the same hell I had in my first day's after purchasing the Pinnacle Studio MovieBoard, but as I said it's Satisfactory product and the end Movies are in very high results....

infoben 04.04.2009 · Read review
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Price Check On Pinnacle in UK

Advantages: easy to install and set up, easy to use and learn
Disadvantages: nore that I can think of at present

...PRICE CHECK Pinnacles main distributor is Jessops, but beware they charge UK£199.00 and COMET are charging UK£170.00, quite a difference. Now the rest When I bought my Sony Digital Video Camera I wanted to get the best possible DV Capture card for the money. On checking Pinnacles Web Site I was amazed at the array of cards on offer and the fact that pinnacle were involved with major productions and I have since seen their name in Movie credits. With this in mind I decided to get a Pinnacle card. My only concern was that I needed Analogue as well as digital output as my video recorder did not have a dv input. Pinnacles card WITH analogue output was UK£100 more expensive that their DV output only model, but needs must and I bought it. The outside of the box didn't say that there was a fire-wire included and so I...

bevboys 10.07.2001 · Read review
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Pinnacle of wiity banter

Advantages: Handy to have all series in one place
Disadvantages: Your mates will all want to lend it.

...of the plots but i wouldn't want to reveal too much about the episodes and you can only truly appreciate the box set when you get to know the characters for yourself. if you are already a Blackadder fan or looking to get into it for the first time, this box set will deliver. I bought the box set from www.play.com, priced at £32. I am sure that if you want to shop around you could find it cheaper. Blackadder is the pinnacle of witty banter and I cannot recommend this box set enough. Well worth the money and with Christmas coming up it would make an ideal present. Thanks for reading x...

Cooky9000 26.10.2009 · Read review
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NO PAYOUT on the Accident, Sickness & Unemplotment policy.

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Lost all my monies paid and now no money to pay mortgage.

...Avoid Cardif Pinnacle at all costs. To give you some background I am a self employed drilling materials co-ordinator working in the North Sea on the oilrigs therefore I took on a policy to cover Accident, Sickness & Unemployment back in December 2004. Everything was fine, Pinnacle was getting monthly payments, I was or thought I was covered then came the recession and the oil companies stopped drilling, my contract came to an end and I was forced to seek Job Seekers Allowance and suspend my company. I got Pinnacles claim form filled in including the bit from my accountant and the Job Centre (Yes the Job Centre acknowledged that I am unemployed) and submitted it. A few days later I got a letter from Pinnacle asking for six months bank statements and confirmation that the accounts to cessate the business had been prepared and submitted...

scrogz 04.11.2009 · Read review
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The Pinnacle Of 80s Action Thrillers

Advantages: see review
Disadvantages: see review

...The pinnacle of 80s action movies, Die Hard is one of the enduring classics of modern action cinema. Not a movie to provoke much thought or reaction, but one filled with high octane thrills and spills which is enough to keep anyone on the edge oftheir seat - I defy you not to enjoy it. New York cop, John McClane(Bruce Willis) arrives in Los Angeles to spnd the Christmas period with his ex-wife(Bonnie Bedelia) and their two children. He meets her at a Christmas party where she works, on the 30th floor of a high rise office complex, but whilst he is in her executive bathroom, a group of international terrorists seize the building, holding everyone hostage whilst they attempt to break into the safe and steal $670m in negotiable bonds. Isolated from the others, Willis tries single-handedly to overcome the terrorists... Yes, it sounds...

wampyrii 08.05.2001 · Read review
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