DVD recorder recommendations

melimel

Hi Can anyone recommend a good dvd recorder.
Don't have HD TV so not an issue, neither is hard drive recording. Want to play all formats and ideally multi region capable. Oh yes and want to spend under £100....
Many thanks

moonrakerz

melimel wrote: »

a good dvd recorder......... all formats .......... multi region capable........... under £100....

Oxymoron ??

isofa

Sony and Panasonic win most of the awards, - but you'll not get one within your budget.

Checkout the review tables in the AV/TV magazines in the newsagent or look on www.avforums.com

melimel

All right thanks for the answers....
i was looking at Sony RDRGX350B DVD Recorder which is on amazon for 99.99 - could anyone tell me if this is good value and worth buying by a non techie?
Ta much

isofa

Check the prices on https://www.pricerunner.co.uk and https://www.froogle.co.uk

But other than that, it's a great machine! Very easy to operate, you don't need a degree in IT or anything

buglawton

Look at the Samsung ones on Richer Sounds website. I got an all formats one for £110 inc the 5 year warranty thingy. Multi Region hack is standard supplied. Analog tuner only though.

isofa

The best site for Multi-Region hacks (as approved by MSE) is: http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/info/multiregion/

buglawton

Isn't it refreshing when the retailer sticks the hack on the side of the box like Richer does, though? Mind you, the instructions were too approximate and I had to resort to some chat forums to get the final details (though Richer even suggests you call their Helpline of in difficulty).

Marty999

Have you already got Sky+ or similar? If not I would seriously consider buying a HDD/DVD recorder with a Freeview tuner built in. You are then looking around the £200 mark for a Sony but it is well worth it.

melimel

Marty999 wrote: »

Have you already got Sky+ or similar? If not I would seriously consider buying a HDD/DVD recorder with a Freeview tuner built in. You are then looking around the £200 mark for a Sony but it is well worth it.

No I am with virgin but don't have V+ or whatever it is called. We're not really technical or massively into TV hence our current model. I had thought about the freeview recorders but decided that it's not worth it at the moment as tied into virgin for some time yet. After reading buglawton's comments though am now concerned about the analogue aspect as will need to record from cable TV. I also noticed on DVD Reviewer that very few sony's have hacks - or is there some other way of making them multi region?
As you can probably tell I am useless at this!

buglawton

There are some multi region multi format Freeview DVD recorders out there, Richer has some around £150. If you like Freeview, Marty999's suggestion is the best, I bought a refurb Humax PVR and it's a dream to use plus can record 2 proggies at the same time. Additionally got a slimline DVD recorder for playing multi-region and for recording archival DVDs/ones to send to rels. It is useable but not a patch on the PVR. If you don't need archived recorded DVDs I'd go for PVR every time.