DVD Recorder £68.94 @ Asda (merged)

rwilts

Just to add an opinion, I use Tesco' s own brand blanks both dvd - r and rw and have not had one failure. Used for both one time back up of Home DV tapes and rerecording from tv...

bazzaang

bought this recorder the other day, very happy with it, hacked to multiregion watching entire first season of lost (region 1) at the mo. Recorded children in need last night, very pleased indeed

mum26

rwilts wrote:

Just to add an opinion, I use Tesco' s own brand blanks both dvd - r and rw and have not had one failure. Used for both one time back up of Home DV tapes and rerecording from tv...

we use these discs too and have also found them to be excellent :T

We are hoping to pick up one of the recordable dvd players at asda on our next trip out there - fingers crossed!

rhysw

Having bought a Cyberhome DVD Recorder from Asda I immediately updated the firmwear from the US Cyberhome website. At 3am that night I gave up trying to get the thing to work, couldnt get any AVs or TV channels recognised. Having slept upon it it began to dawn on me that my US firmwear upgrade could possibly have had some effect! I searched the German language Cyberhome site and eventually found another firmwear upgrade at https://www.cyberhome.de/de/Downloads-index-req-viewsdownload-sid-21.html. This included CD installation instructions in English. As soon as the firmware upgrade CD had run all was well. Phew!!
My cheapo bulk spindle Datasafe DVD+RW purchased from https://www.Bigpockets.co.uk appear to work well with the recorder, allowing the recorded video to be ripped to my PC using DVDShrink (https://www.dvdshrink.org) prior to editing and re-recording onto DVDR.

Tech4

Thunderbird2 wrote:

I know people have said you can't but I am recording from my Pace settop Freeview box via the scart. See earlier post for connection map

I have transfered a number of VHS to DVD successfully.

However I recorded Doc Martin for my wife who was out last night and during playback, the audio kept going out of sync.

I had recorded this with the Region at 2 and played it back at 0 and wondered if this caused the hitch. Will fiddle and update.

Would be interested to know if anyone else has had audio sync probs.

I found downloads for the player here:

http://www.cyberhome.com/downloads.asp?Product=1600

I think the MU model is the US version and the ZU is the European. (this is infact a load of old rubbish so don't foxtrot uniform your machine) ME is the European, where as MU and ZU are US! How clever is that?


Only dabble with the Bios updates if you have a good clue what you are doing, otherwise you may end up with a very expensive clock!

OH yeah! I also recorded to DVD-R (Datawrite 4x yellowtops and also Riovision 8x DVD-R Pritable (CMC Dye) both from ebuyer)

Will cancel the order for my DVD+R as I have about 50 DVD-R kicking about the house at the mo!!

I bought one of these machines from ASDA 2 months ago as I liked it's appearance and compact size but I had to take it back and get a refund.

With regard to the audio sync question, yes I had problems recording a source via the SCART connection from both my VHS video and Freeview recorder box. The sound playback off the Cyberhome was like listening to a faulty tape recorder with WOW ( A low frequency warbling); The picture quality was excellent. As I bought the Cyberhome to make DVD recordings of my old VHS tapes and Freeview recordings I was greatly disappointed. Having trawled through other message boards, several other people have reported this problem.

Sound and picture recording using the aerial as a source didn't produce any noticable problems so that rules out the blank disks as being faulty. The Freeview recorder box isn't faulty either as the sound playback off that is excellent; the same goes for my old VHS tapes.

I e-mailed Cyberhome tech support at the time and I'm still waiting for a reply over 2 mths later.

Have any of you tried recording off the SCART and listening to a piece of your favourite music - still pleased with it ? I would like to think they'd cured this problem now in later batches.

ElKeeed

Tech4 wrote:

With regard to the audio sync question, yes I had problems recording a source via the SCART connection from both my VHS video and Freeview recorder box. The sound playback off the Cyberhome was like listening to a faulty tape recorder with WOW ( A low frequency warbling); The picture quality was excellent. As I bought the Cyberhome to make DVD recordings of my old VHS tapes and Freeview recordings I was greatly disappointed. Having trawled through other message boards, several other people have reported this problem.

Sound and picture recording using the aerial as a source didn't produce any noticable problems so that rules out the blank disks as being faulty. The Freeview recorder box isn't faulty either as the sound playback off that is excellent; the same goes for my old VHS tapes.

I e-mailed Cyberhome tech support at the time and I'm still waiting for a reply over 2 mths later.

Have any of you tried recording off the SCART and listening to a piece of your favourite music - still pleased with it ? I would like to think they'd cured this problem now in later batches.

Does your freeview output have macrovision encoding?

As to discs. http://www.svp.co.uk is a great place to get them, both datasafe and datawrite are very good quality brands.

Tech4

ElKeeed wrote:

Does your freeview output have macrovision encoding?

As to discs. http://www.svp.co.uk is a great place to get them, both datasafe and datawrite are very good quality brands.

No, my Freeview recorder is This Humax

As I said it's nothing to do with what's being fed in via the SCART- it's a fault in the Cyberhome to do with encoding the signal from the SCART and synchronising it with the picture. It can't be anything to do with the media type also as it happily synchronised the sound with the pic when recording a UHF TV signal.

rinkrat

My Cyberhome went back for a refund yesterday. I got a liteon 5006 from Argos instead. Cyberhome was too dodgy recording for my liking. I can now record on all my RW discs even the ones the Cyberhome failed on. The liteons remote seems a little better although initial set up was more difficult than the Cyberhome. Recordings from TV channels appear better quality than the Cyberhome and Videoplus is a great bonus.

Shame the Cyberhome was'nt relaible as it was a lot smaller unit than the Liteon.

Tony

tin

Tech4 wrote:

No, my Freeview recorder is This Humax

As I said it's nothing to do with what's being fed in via the SCART- it's a fault in the Cyberhome to do with encoding the signal from the SCART and synchronising it with the picture. It can't be anything to do with the media type also as it happily synchronised the sound with the pic when recording a UHF TV signal.

Hmmm. I've recorded from freeview on SCART and RF and only seen the sync problem once, on a RF sourced recording. The recording quality is exemplary on both though.......

tin

On another note, does anyone else think ASDA have a cheek advertising this nationally as a bargain at £70, when a lot of us got them for £60?