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Matsui recordable DVD for £90

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Matsui dvd r £99.99 less 10% if you buy through linemypocket cash back site
and cash back too...Sunday only for 10% off from Currys

Record onto DVD - enjoy digital recordings

Uses DVD+R & DVD+RW discs

Exclusive Offer

5 hours recording capacity

2 Scart Sockets

Digital audio output

2 Region Code

Silver and Mirror Colour

Mpeg Compatible
Good luck everyone with your money saving
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  • seth
    seth Posts: 1,291 Forumite
    geoff1 wrote:
    Matsui dvd r £99.99 less 10% if you buy through linemypocket cash back site
    and cash back too...Sunday only for 10% off from Currys

    Record onto DVD - enjoy digital recordings

    Uses DVD+R & DVD+RW discs

    Exclusive Offer

    5 hours recording capacity

    2 Scart Sockets

    Digital audio output

    2 Region Code

    Silver and Mirror Colour

    Mpeg Compatible

    Thanks, are there any reviews of this player or do you know its model number?
    Seth.
  • zia_2
    zia_2 Posts: 47 Forumite
    Smashing deal thanks!
  • lemming64
    lemming64 Posts: 158 Forumite
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    the offer ends this tuesday by the way, so get in there quick
  • Netto had a good deal on last week for goodmans dvd recorder
    + sterio surround system for £130
    there maybe some left , got one myself , well pleased
    Help enough people get what they want and you will automatically get what you want
  • dimpler
    dimpler Posts: 76 Forumite
    I bought one of these a couple of months back (for quite a few quid more I hate to say!). Don't know if I was just unlucky or whether it may me a general fault with this model, but I lost all audio capabilities within two days. Through the tv tuner, the dvd player, and when I recorded there was no sound whatsoever. Took it to my local currys and they exchanged it no probs, even though it was more expensive instore.

    The new one has been going ok so far. It's fairly easy to use once you've had a quick browse through the manual. I have managed to make some decent dvds from old videos and camcorder tapes which is what I wanted it most for. I like the way it has many inputs to choose from: scart, s-video, the red, white & yellow input thingies (techno-ignoramus me, sorry!), etc.

    The only downside I would point out is that to get the full 6 hours recordable time you have to choose a low quality recording. And yes I do mean 6, not 5 as stated on currys website. The maximum recording time you can get from an average 4.7GB, 120mins dvd in this recorder is 365mins. For the highest quality recording you only get 60 minutes. I don't know if all dvd recorders work in the same way, since it's the first one I've owned and I'm really not up to speed on them. Oh and just for info purposes, it came with a dvd+rw disc so you can get started playing about with it instantly.

    Anyway, hope that helps someone. If anyone needs more specs on it let me know and I will dig out the manual for you :)

    Ooh-err ... Just thought of another thing I don't like about it! It is definitely only Region 2, it won't play any of my Region 1 discs. A couple of weeks after I bought it, Tesco were doing a multi-region recorder on their deal of the day for about 20 quid more than what I had just paid for the Matsui. I was well gutted :( If multi-region is important to you, I would wait and see if you can get a better deal from Tesco or Amazon or somewhere. I would have gladly paid the extra few quid if I hadn't already bought this one. Ho hum ...
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  • mcwarre
    mcwarre Posts: 835 Forumite
    dimpler wrote:
    Ooh-err ... Just thought of another thing I don't like about it! It is definitely only Region 2, it won't play any of my Region 1 discs. A couple of weeks after I bought it, Tesco were doing a multi-region recorder on their deal of the day for about 20 quid more than what I had just paid for the Matsui. I was well gutted :( If multi-region is important to you, I would wait and see if you can get a better deal from Tesco or Amazon or somewhere. I would have gladly paid the extra few quid if I hadn't already bought this one. Ho hum ...

    Multi-region hack for matsui dvdr100:


    open tray (ensure it’s empty)
    close tray
    press dvd/rec
    press return
    press info
    press 8880

    message appears then disappears in few secs. You are ready to watch any region.


    Hope that helps!
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  • bosey
    bosey Posts: 77 Forumite
    was tempted by this but a quick google showed it to be not a total piece of junk like the philips 880 - but 'you get what you pay for' would sum it up.

    I'm going to hold tight until the budget-end recorders' dust has settled. :money:
    Multi-tasking is a way of ensuring you don't enjoy any of them.
  • chompie
    chompie Posts: 2,436 Forumite
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    bosey wrote:
    was tempted by this but a quick google showed it to be not a total piece of junk like the philips 880 - but 'you get what you pay for' would sum it up.

    I'm going to hold tight until the budget-end recorders' dust has settled. :money:

    don't put all the 880's in the same bracket!
    i have had my 880 for 2 years (well 15 months but i'll get to that)
    initially there were problems with the machine cutting out rendering the discs that were in the machine at the time as useless. took it back to currys swapped it another error kept happening took it back swapped it, got it back and updated to the latest firmware, and for the past 15 months i have not had a single read or write error or a machine reset + the features on the 880 are by far, superior to any budget player avaliable on the market. also i have a RAM recorder (philips) and the recording on RW-ram is rubbish to the extent where you can still see what was recorded below it.
    i wouldn't touch a budget recorder for a while yet you might aswell just get a £30 video recorder. unless you really want to keep the TV you are recording.
    In which case you should splash out an extra £100
    Where the !!!! has the Shrug gone! :confused: just doesn't cut it... :huh::think::huh: and these don't come close
  • bosey
    bosey Posts: 77 Forumite
    heh, no offense chompie! yeah, i heard the fw up did the trick on some of em. i think i read that some sony car audio has philips lasers and suffer the same premature demise.... my head may of made that up tho :p
    Multi-tasking is a way of ensuring you don't enjoy any of them.
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