Great DVD Recorder Hunt

Edinburghlass_2

That will be the Mico dvd recorder that Sainsburys were/are selling. If you put Mico into the search on the site for a good few days back like 90 to 120 you should be able to find the threads on this dvd recorder.

George_Bray

Further to my earlier postings, I've now discovered the following quirks with my Liteon 5005 DVD recorder:

1. Perfectly legal mainstream DVDs can trigger picture distortion on playback, as the macrovision copy protection cuts in unnecessarily. Perhaps the firmware upgrade will cure this, but it shouldn't be necessary for a buyer to do this to a deck manufactured as recently as August 2004.

2. The chapter/title advance no longer works on my deck so I need to go back to the main menu just to advance one track! A serious playback fault.

Therefore, I cannot recommend the Liteon 5005 deck for the playback of any DVDs. I only use mine for recording, which it does very well indeed, at least thus far. But hey, I've just remembered DVD+RW re-recordable DVDs, which need to be re-played on the Liteon, unless they are finalised. Not so good.

Regards
George

dino_jr

According to my new issue of "Stuff" magazine, Liteon are releasing a DVD recorder soon with 160Gb hard drive for £350!!!
Thats far cheaper than other makes, and the hard drive is a lot bigger too!!!

wheelnuta

Aldi has a dvd recorder £119.99 Also a scanner £49.99

andyjervisuk

Currys currently have a Matsui DVD Recorder for around £117. It only uses +DVD and I can't see any facilty for Videoplus on the box. Does anyone know what they're like or has anyone bought one and could give us a review of it? How does it compare to other cheap DVD recorders?

malcolmord

sainsbury are seeling one now at #99

MiserlyMartin

You might be right (though with the exception of films) but the liteon has the firewire socket so I think the ability to burn dvds of your home movies would be very useful to alot of people!

Having a firewire socket all well and good, but with only chapter editing facitilies on this player its not really very useful. I take it that the JVC with its DVD RAM offers decent editing faciltiies?...and it has a DV i/p. Can anyone confirm? Its looking to me that the JVC is the one to get.

MiserlyMartin

sainsbury are seeling one now at #99

A friend bought this, Mikon i think was the make. I helped set it up for her.

Picture quality was good, menus were good, it does DVD + R +RW. I did notice a bit of pixelation but as the source was NTL digi cable I was not sure if this was present already on the broadcast. (This was in the 2 hr mode)

Didn't seem too bad for £99 the build quality seemed ok, this was my first time playing with a DVD recorder though so maybe I was too easyily impressed! ;D

MiserlyMartin

Also I should add that if you are interested in Free to Air Satellite TV (there is more to sat tv than SKY), there should be a reciever called a Dreambox 7085 coming out soon which has twin tuners, a Hard Drive and DVD Recorder all in one box. Also supposed to be possible to have one tuner for SAT TV and the other for DTT!

Advance Specs and pics here: http://www.olmi.cz/

I believe it will sell for 600 Euros in Germany. It will be available over here as are the other current Dreambox models. I am probably going to wait until it has come out instead of jumping to buy a DVD recorder. I'll get one if it proves to be as good as it seems.

rick.b2

Hi, All
I am looking to buy a standard dvd recorder somewhere in the £100-£150 range. I have seen the one at sainsburys for £99 and the Matsui recorder at Currys for £119. Neither of these has Videoplus. Are these recorders easy to programme or is Videoplus a definite must have or are there other features i should be looking for that are more important. I dont intend to do anything out of the ordinary i just want to be able to record from the TV/Sky and watch DVD movies. I dont want to go for a VCR because DVD is obviously for the future and VCR's I think will become obsolite. Any feedback/advice would be appreciated.
Man Thanks Rick