Technika Dvdr2005 @tescos £79

happyflea

thanks MyUserNamesTaken and imsi. i've managed to get the technika's +R and +RW playing okay on PC so it was the cheapo alba causing the problem.

recovering_spendaholic

I was in Tescos this evening and they had Technika DVR's for £69.97. Is this the same one and can I do the multi-region thingie on it?

MyUserNamesTaken

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

I was in Tescos this evening and they had Technika DVR's for £69.97. Is this the same one and can I do the multi-region thingie on it?

Yep, that's the one - Technika 2005 dvd recorder.

youngwilly

imsi wrote:

Mine has played everything except for the odd (probably corrupted) divx file.
Those that it could't play, wouldn't play on my PC with videolan(VLC) either, so I am well happy.
Maybe the quality control is not so good, having read others comments, but I'd be prepared to exchange and see if you get a good'n 'cos if you do this is a fantastic value budget machine which will perform well until the mystical dual freeview receiver with 300 gig hard disc with +, -, RAM dvd recorder for under £200 arrives.
For the moment, my Umax freeview hard drive recorder and the this Technika DVD recorder for archiving is just the job for my first steps beyond VCR + channels 1-5.
The only thing I want Sky for is for watching The Arsenal, and I can go down the pub when they are on and spend the savings on drowning my sorrows (away matches) or on a ticket for Highbury (joy). Well done Wigan and Roman's team.

Watching Arsenal this season - you're gonna need more savings to drown those sorrows !!

recovering_spendaholic

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

I was in Tescos this evening and they had Technika DVR's for £69.97. Is this the same one and can I do the multi-region thingie on it?

I went into Tescos today and bought this - shelf price £69.97 but it scanned at £59.97 - bargain!! They had loads too! - Formby Tescos

timviola

Anyone else had the problem that if you have a power-cut, you have to reset the date and time afterwards? If so, is there any way round this? I'm thinking of taking mine back and getting the Goodmans one from Netto.

recovering_spendaholic

I have just bought tthe Technika DVD recorder but I cannot install it so that it recognises my cable box. I don't have a TV aerial and watch TV through the cable box all the time. I have connected the DVD recorder to the TV with scart and the cable box is also connected to the TV with scarts. When I am setting up the recorder and I scan for channels it keeps saying no channels found. Can anyone help? I rang telewest technical help but they were hopeless and said they didn't know!!

bartman

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

I have just bought tthe Technika DVD recorder but I cannot install it so that it recognises my cable box. I don't have a TV aerial and watch TV through the cable box all the time. I have connected the DVD recorder to the TV with scart and the cable box is also connected to the TV with scarts. When I am setting up the recorder and I scan for channels it keeps saying no channels found. Can anyone help? I rang telewest technical help but they were hopeless and said they didn't know!!

I think you might have to run a scart lead from the cable box to the DVD recorder. That's what I did with my Sky box anyway. Then from the output scart socket on the recorder to the TV.

Mikei

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

I have just bought tthe Technika DVD recorder but I cannot install it so that it recognises my cable box. I don't have a TV aerial and watch TV through the cable box all the time. I have connected the DVD recorder to the TV with scart and the cable box is also connected to the TV with scarts. When I am setting up the recorder and I scan for channels it keeps saying no channels found. Can anyone help? I rang telewest technical help but they were hopeless and said they didn't know!!

Bartman is correct - you will need a scart lead from your cable box to the recorder, and from the recorder to your tv.
The problem with doing things this way (i.e. watching tv only via cable box, and recording via scart) is that you can't watch another channel while you're recording. If you're recording BBC 1 and change the channel to BBC 2 part way through, then you'll end up recording BBC 2 from that point onwards

recovering_spendaholic

Mikei wrote:

Bartman is correct - you will need a scart lead from your cable box to the recorder, and from the recorder to your tv.
The problem with doing things this way (i.e. watching tv only via cable box, and recording via scart) is that you can't watch another channel while you're recording. If you're recording BBC 1 and change the channel to BBC 2 part way through, then you'll end up recording BBC 2 from that point onwards

Thanks for this - do you think it would be worthwhile to get an aerial fitted (costs £37)? I could ask the aerial people to connect up the DVD then!!!