Freeview with 160GB hard drive £99.99 + vat

adwozere

Makro mail has just come, and from today (23rd May) they are selling a Daewoo Digital TV Recorder with 160GB HDD (DSD9503T) FOR £99.99 + VAT.


Up to 80 hours recording on hard drive.
Pause live TV with one hour time shift.
Watch one/record Two channels.
Electronic programme guide.
Scart socket.


They are also doing a Funai DVD Recorder with 250GB HDD (HD-B2785) for £149.99 + vat.

In the write up it said it can record a MASSIVE 425 hours on the hard drive!!

gromituk

Yeah - at ultra-crap quality.

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gromituk wrote: »

Yeah - at ultra-crap quality.

Simply not true, I have the 80GB version of this receiver, it records fine, it also has a very user friendly interface.;)

Sid_Harper

I'm assuming gromituk meant if you want to achieve 425 hours on the Funai then it has to be at low quality...

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Sid_Harper wrote: »

I'm assuming gromituk meant if you want to achieve 425 hours on the Funai then it has to be at low quality...

Well perhaps he / she may explain themselves better, if that is what he meant.

I assumed he meant that the Daewoo was " crap quality ", which it isn't.

gromituk

You assume correctly, Sid. Thank you. My point is that there's a trade-off to squeezing more TV into a given space: nasty lossy compression. The double exclamation mark of delight is a tad over the top.

gromituk

Oh, and talking of crap quality, as I understand it (and I'm willing to be corrected), all combined DVD recorders/hard disk recorders trans-code the incoming signal to make it suitable to put on a DVD even if it only goes on the hard disk. There is therefore a drop in quality on all material played back. If you don't want your data messed with, buy an HD-only PVR.

TimC

I believe it is only if you enable the Fast Copy functionality on the Panasonic - if you don't you get the full quality copy onto the Hard Disk but takes a lot longer to burn a DVD - not that we've noticed any loss in quality when we've enabled Fast Copy.

Simon_Wallace

I was thinking about getting the Funai one as my DVDR went pop last week, I already have SKY+ but I may use the HDD for overspill. But I have a question, can you edit TV files before you drop them from HDD to DVD, or is it just like extremely basic copy feature on Sky+?

Re Gromit UK's mail above, you can select the quality level that the HDD records at (hence their 425 hour claim), I would have thought that the highest quality level would have been comparable with the best PVRs, no?

Most importantly (for me) the Funai plays DivX files.

Cheers
Simon

Jefft_2

It's the Wallace and Gromit thread.

Sid_Harper

Jefft wrote: »

It's the Wallace and Gromit thread.

Very astute observation. :rotfl: