Yamada DVR-8400X DVD Recorder /DIVX Player £99.99 or less :)

talkshop

Maplins are selling the amazing Yamada DVR-8400X DVD recorder for £99.99 including postage.

If you subscribe to their newsletter you can get another £10 OFF using the voucher codes, and get it for UNDER £91.00 (if you make total purchase price over £100, so just buy a connector for £0.49 for example to bring total price to over £100.

This has to be better than the supermarket DVD Recorders, as it also plays DIVX movies.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=46214&doy=9m8

• Massively compatible, Multi-region DVD recorder and DivX Player
• Recordable disk formats - DVD+RW, DVD+R
• Format compatibility: MPEG1, MPEG-2, MPEG4, DivX 3.11, DivX 4.x, DivX 5.x, Xvid, MP3, WMA, PCM, JPEG & AVI
• DVD Recorder time capacity - 4.7 GB (12 cm single-sided) Up to 360 minutes (6 Hours)
• Front mounted DV link digital input, for recording directly from camcorders
• Front mounted USB port for direct file transfer from PC mobile storage device
• Selectable NTSC or PAL video system output
• Connections: SCART, Video CVBS, S-Video, audio L/R output, 5.1 coaxial audio output, Digital audio output (optical & coaxial), USB & DV link digital input

the_tired_one

My hubby is asking if he can connect it to his VHS video and record all his home movies onto disk without needing anything else - and also our camcorder to this to record directly onto disk?

zappahey

the_tired_one wrote:

My hubby is asking if he can connect it to his VHS video and record all his home movies onto disk without needing anything else - and also our camcorder to this to record directly onto disk?

It would appear so from here http://www.maplin.co.uk/Media/PDFs/A66CU.pdf where it describes the scart as being the AV input which suggests that it can be used for recording.

talkshop

the_tired_one wrote:

My hubby is asking if he can connect it to his VHS video and record all his home movies onto disk without needing anything else - and also our camcorder to this to record directly onto disk?

This Yamada has a Firewire DV input for digital camcorders, and also has an S-Video and SCART input for analogue camcorders.

You will be able to copy home recorded VHS movies to DVD via the SCART input.

If you want to copy Pre-Recorded store bought movies to DVD then you will need to purchase a Macrovision/Video enhancing SCART cable for about £30.00

Felixradge

personally i would just wait a while. Yamada is not exactly a trust make, these recorders have fallen and will continue to do so.

oranabana

Felixradge wrote:

Yamada is not exactly a trust make

Yamada happens to be the brand by which Umax sells their goods, so I think they can be well and truely trusted, as they have been round for years...

also have a look here:
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdrecorders.php?DVDnameid=1071&Search=Search&list=1#comments

parley

I was just looking into buying one to do my home movies on. thanks

Felixradge

Ok I stand corrected. However was just thinking along the lines of other standard dvd players which are going cheap as chips and may only have a few months life in them.

oranabana

here is another option: http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?LIT-5002B for those wary of Yamada >;-)

and here is a nice BIG pic of it: http://www.morextech.com/newsite/Produits/Fiches%20Produit/multimedia/lecteurs-salon/LVD-2010/LVW-5002-With-Camera.jpg

talkshop

oranabana wrote:

here is another option: http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?LIT-5002B for those wary of Yamada >;-)

and here is a nice BIG pic of it: http://www.morextech.com/newsite/Produits/Fiches%20Produit/multimedia/lecteurs-salon/LVD-2010/LVW-5002-With-Camera.jpg

The LiteOn does not play DIVX movies.

Personally I have read more bad things about LiteOn than Yamada.

Yamada players are generally well respected as a budget chinese brand, and let's face it, all these cheap recorders are made in China.

The Yamada models are firmware upgradeable, unlike some of the supermarket brands.

The average price of this Yamada DVR-8400X is £120 plus postage elsewhere.

jaxxy00

Would like to say that we have a Yamada dvd player that we got from Amazon about 2 years ago if not longer and its never been a problem. Get used lots too and has lots of functions and menus on it which adjusts all different settings which i would have expected to find on more expensive models. Yamada is a name that i would recommend.