Panasonic DVD/RAM Recorder/digibox - Currys -£155 inc Del

L.S.D.

talkshop wrote:

Please explain your even more rediculous remarks.

Climb back into your hole where you belong

I am waiting !!!!

OH YEH

And I guess you are still on LSD and hallucinating.... LOL

I don't want to turn this into an argumentive thread, but your ignorance is surprising.

"Pounds, Shillings and Pence - fun with Lsd
Until 15th February, 1971, Great Britain had much more interesting system of money, known as the pounds, shillings and pence system, or Lsd - the L coming from the latin word libra, the d coming from the latin word denarius (a roman coin)."

This site is about money. I used the old abbreviation of MONEY. LSD.

http://home.clara.net/brianp/money.html

dc

talkshop wrote:

DVD+RW is still the better format.


£2 for a dinosaur RAM disc when you can get a DVD+RW for 50p or less.


I know which I will be using

dvd-rw discs are even cheaper, just as good.
Ram discs will become cheaper as peeps become aware of their uses, and longevity, 100 times more then RW, whether + or -, They are about £1.50 at mo with only a small market.
Time will tell on popularity/ price, and when your RW discs become unuseable.

You may know what you will be using , but then you will not know what you are missing. Ignorance is bliss, or so the saying goes.

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If you want to know about DVD recorders in laymans terms visit

http://www.btinternet.com/~james_lancaster/whichdvd.HTML

This is a truly excellent site and article which greatly helps.

If you skip to the bottom of the article you will see that the DVD recorder being talked about in this thread is indeed a top machine.

L.S.D.

Here is a 10 pack of DVD RAM for £11-99. That's less than £1-20 per disc. As these last 10 times more than R/Ws that makes it much cheaper, also in use (I use both DVD-RAM, DVD-R/W & DVD+R/W I find that I've never yet had a faulty DVD-RAM disk in over 2½ years yet have thrown away many of both types of R/Ws some with lost work on.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00074ERTY/qid%3D1137341652/sr%3D8-1/ref%3Dpd%5Fka%5F1/026-5479175-3226026

LionKing

Can you record from Sky using this recorder?

Rikki

If I record a programme on a DVD-Ram would I be able to play it on my OH Sony dvd player? Or am I best to stick to DVD-RW?

acc

Can you experts please advise me on how useful it is to have a hard drive on the dvd recorder as well as the ability to write to dvd media?

Does anyone know of the £170 Yamada DVR-9000H HDD DVD Recorder 80GB at Maplin?

• DVD HD Recorder and Player
• Hard disc drive 80 GB - gives up to 96h or recording time
• Time Shift function to record and watch TV time shifted.
• Progressive scan
• Copy function HDD to DVD and DVD to HDD
• Recording up to 96 h on HDD and 6 h on DVD
• Easy guide menu system
• ShowView / VPS (only DVR-9100H)
• Multi region

Maplin don't say which dvd formats are handled, and this machine lacks the freeview feature which I will probably want.

talkshop

acc wrote:

Can you experts please advise me on how useful it is to have a hard drive on the dvd recorder as well as the ability to write to dvd media?

I would not buy a DVD recorder without a hard drive.

It will allow you to record at high quality setting without having to keep putting in a new disk every 2.5 hours

It means you can be selective in what recordings you transfer to DVD

You will also be able to edit out the adverts before transferring to DVD.

The Maplins DVD/HDD recorder does seem a good deal for the money.

I think it is pointless to have a Freeview tuner built into a DVD only recorder.

If you want to record Freeview then buy a PVR such as the Humax 9200T which has twin tuners and 160Gb HDD.

talkshop

dc wrote:

dvd-rw discs are even cheaper, just as good.
Ram discs will become cheaper as peeps become aware of their uses, and longevity, 100 times more then RW, whether + or -, They are about £1.50 at mo with only a small market.
Time will tell on popularity/ price, and when your RW discs become unuseable.

You may know what you will be using , but then you will not know what you are missing. Ignorance is bliss, or so the saying goes.

More mis-information in your post.

DVD-RW discs are the same price as DVD+RW (depends where you shop)

DVD+RW discs have a life of 1,000 recordings and 50 year storage life which will be beyond my lifetime, and blu-ray will have replaced all discs by then.

DVD-RW has to be finalised which can take 10 minutes.
DVD+RW does not need to be finalised and can be played immediately in normal DVD players.

It is strange that Panasonic recorders now include DVD+R recording, as obviously they know their -R format is obsolete and consumers are not buying.

cheapskate58

talkshop wrote:

More mis-information in your post.

DVD-RW has to be finalised which can take 10 minutes.
DVD+RW does not need to be finalised and can be played immediately in normal DVD players.

It is strange that Panasonic recorders now include DVD+R recording, as obviously they know their -R format is obsolete and consumers are not buying.

Er....

This is sooo not true, but I've got to the point that I can't be bothered to argue the toss.

Caveat emptor is the maxim here but for my money, you can't get a much better deal on this so well done to the OP