DVD Recorder

roadster1

I am looking for a reasonably priced, reasonably specced, DVD Recorder to back up TV Programs(and play DVDs, SVCDs, etc., etc.) from my Freeview PVR.

I see a few have TV Tuners built in but I obviously don't need this functionality. Most of them seem to be analogue anyway.

Any recommendations?

crompton

Liteon LVW-5006 from BigPockets, this one looks awesome and a good price too @ only £80 incl VAT I am about to order this one myself, don't forget you can buy discs from there too!

roadster1

crompton wrote:

Liteon LVW-5006 from BigPockets, this one looks awesome and a good price too @ only £80 incl VAT I am about to order this one myself, don't forget you can buy discs from there too!

Quite a few bugs in that one according to the reviews

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=159427&page=1&pp=25

It is soooo difficult these days to buy anything electronic that actually works...........

Anyone bought the recent Aldi offer???

slowen

Personally don't see the point in purchasing a DVD recorder without a hard drive as it makes things so much easier and beter value for money as you can store a DVD's worth of content onto your hard drive then fully burn a DVD rather than keep using DVD's that you may only fill half way. At least with having a hard drive you can watch it from the hard drive and if you decide to put it onto DVD you can or just delete it from the hard drive

hilary1

slowen wrote:

Personally don't see the point in purchasing a DVD recorder without a hard drive as it makes things so much easier and beter value for money as you can store a DVD's worth of content onto your hard drive then fully burn a DVD rather than keep using DVD's that you may only fill half way. At least with having a hard drive you can watch it from the hard drive and if you decide to put it onto DVD you can or just delete it from the hard drive

I totally agree. We bought a Liteon at Christams and its one of the best things we've bought (£200 though).

We record onto the hard drive then put to disc if we want to keep anything. We've also put several videos to disc although a lot of the quality depends on the video tape.

One of the best features is being ablt to watch a progamme from the beginning (timeslip I think its called) while still recording it. which is great on sky because if you wait till its halfway through you can cut out the adverts and catch the programme up towards the end.

Just wish the tv progammes were a bit better. lol

grumbler

slowen wrote:

Personally don't see the point in purchasing a DVD recorder without a hard drive ...

hilary1 wrote:

I totally agree.

The OP has a PVR with a hard drive. Do you really think that s/he needs another one inside the DVD recorder?

slowen

grumbler wrote:

The OP has a PVR with a hard drive. Do you really think that s/he need another one inside the DVD recorder?

oops...Did not notice that as I just seen the "DVD recorder" and posted my comments

hilary1

slowen wrote:

oops...Did not notice that as I just seen the "DVD recorder" and posted my comments

Same here.

Still if some-one wants a Liteon DVD Recorder we've already posted our opinions lol:rotfl: