E:WSL ALDI DVD/HDD Recorder 160GB Timeshift

Careful_John

My wife made a special 32 mile round trip to buy one of these on Thursday: we have been struggling with it since Saturday and gave up last night.

Ours will not "initialize" (i.e. format) blank dvds, so recording to dvd has not been possible, and when playing pre-recorded commercial dvds there is no speech, just a faint backing music track (although it is possible to play the director's commentary). You can no doubt imagine the hours spent scrolling through menus and reading the manual, but no amount of changing settings and resetting will seemingly fix these issues.

I am guessing that something is out of alignment within the dvd drive, but an email to the Medion "hotline" hasn't produced any response after 24 hours. If nothing useful is heard by Saturday, it's going back.

Shame, because the picture quality is very good and the hdd side of it works really well and is easy to use.

C_J

B33fy

Looks ominous, mine has switched off completely on a number of occasions and requires unplugging to fire up again, has missed random scheduled recordings and the DVDRW was only useable for two sessions before the Pc refused to read the disk, shame, nice machine but totally unreliable - its going back

martint123

Careful_John wrote:

... and when playing pre-recorded commercial dvds there is no speech, just a faint backing music track (although it is possible to play the director's commentary).
C_J

C_J - spotted on another forum http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=273578&page=2&pp=25

"...playing back a DVD. I solved it by going into the Audio setup and switching the surround & woofer speaker setting to 'none' and changing the front left & right to 'large' as I have no surround gear."

Careful_John

martint123

I really appreciate you taking the trouble to post your tip. You have been far more help that the Medion "hotline", which still hasn't replied to my request for support on Tuesday.

I haven't been able to tell from your posts whether you have one of these machines or not, but if you have, you will know that the Audio Setup menu is fiendishly difficult to understand, and the manual is not much help on it either. I have spent ages on it, but armed with this new advice, i will have another go, thanks.

Kind regards

C_J

--Tony--

dc2447 wrote:

Is this offer finished?

I got my LiteOn 5045 from Curry's and its fantastic only £219 (with code) and FREE delivery included. Its a much better spec, more hacks available and lower price than the Aldi one, take a look before rushing out to Aldi.

HERE

Hack available for multi region and to remove DVD protection.

martint123

I would have gone for the Liteon if it had played AVI and/or DIVX disks. But it would appear it doesn't.

pjala

239.99 for the liteon recorder, plus 60 days free rental of dvd's but with screen select..

Channelman

I was looking for info on the Medion from Aldi but you chaps have
converted me to the Liteon from Currys.

BUT does anyone know of a new code since *** code removed by Board Guide (please see here for explanation) *** has expired now
at Currys. I tried it today...no luck.

Cheers,
Channelman

Channelman

Sorry....I've read the rules about 'that' word.
I can confirm that the 5% nhs 'word' works OK since
I've just used it on the Curry online site and got £12 off
the price.
Cheers, Channelman

martint123

There was still two of these in stock in the Hull, beverley road branch today.

I'm still awaiting the upgrade disk from Medion.