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The machine is excellent for the price and fit for purpose
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I purchased this DVD recorder to transfer old super 8 and VHS tapes to DVD format. The unit arrived as new, well packaged. I have no negative points other than the time taken to post the item which in fairness was explained by the vendor. 5 stars well deserved!!
waste of money in fact its crap it will only record on discs that are dvd-rw and then only selected brands
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Very easy to use, amazingly well priced! Will play most formats, unfortunately beaten by my naff little philips player on one or two! Excellent pcture. REALLY annoying feature, turn it on and the tuner defualts to analogue every time!! Whats it gonna do when the switch off happens?? Easy to switch back but bloody annoying! The most annoying feature though is div x. Put a disk in, instead of getting a title menu, you get main menu, have to select divx from a list, then the titles show up WHY!!!!!!!!!!! totally pointless!! It's the only dvd player I have ever seen this happen on, even cheap and nasty's do do this! Otherwise so far a really good player. Update 4/10 Has now stopped reading ANY discs that are not pre recorded. My old Philips (which it replaced) is still going strong!
Got one of these because I had a few VHS tapes to transfer to DVD, I wanted to record the odd thing off Freeview, and it worked out about half the price of the nearest hard-disk DVD combination recorder I could find at the time. Good points: Plays DivX; nice picture quality; it's got phono outs, two scart sockets; can be set to multi-region; it's a really nice looking thing if you're bothered about that; timer record can be set directly with one button from the 7-day guide; advertised as DRD-R/RW and DVD RAM only, but it does play files burned to DVD+RW or CDRW; can use DVD RAM for extra flexibility in recordings. Bad points/quirks: Has the option for PDC on timer recording (a feature that should make it keep recording if a programme overruns its time) but I can't seem get it to switch on, so to avoid missing the last few minutes you have to go into the timer and manually change the end time; not that hard, but fiddly enough to take it out of "easy enough for your grandparents to use" territory. You can't set the record quality for Freeview recordings yourself, so you don't have much control over what fits on a disc - although saying that, every recording I've made has looked as good as the broadcast itself so far. Doesn't play VCD, or MPEG1 video from a disc. If you put in a data disc, you have to choose what you want type of file you want to use - for instance with a disc full of DivX/XviD, you have to choose DivX before you can see what files are on the disc. Not a huge pain, but not as easy as if it just showed a list of the files on the disc immediately. As you look at different channels on the 7 day guide, the channel actually changes, so you can't look at what else is on while still watching a different channel. Remote can be sluggish, takes a while to change channels and for some options to select. There's an option to control your TV with the remote if it's supported (mine isn't) but you have to switch between TV or DVD recorder control. If you switch it to TV by accident the channel up and down buttons don't work for the DVD recorder; I though the remote was broken for a couple of hours... Recording sometimes skip a split second every now and then when playing back - this might be unique to my recorder, as it looks like it was a a return, and was sold as having the recording function "untested," that coverall caveat... So would I have spanked £50 on it if I'd know all this in advance? Possibly not, and, inevitably, hard-disc/DVD recorder combos starting appearing for not much more than I paid almost as soon as I bought it. But saying that, I'm actually pretty happy with it - it's nice having a Freeview box, DVD and MPEG4 player all in one, and being able to record Freeview without having to faff with two separate devices has made my life a bit easier, and that's the whole point of a gadget isn't it? One last thing about MPEG4 playback - DivX is great, XviD playback isn't always perfect - it's only advertised as having DivX support as opposed to MPEG4, so that's fair enough. Some XviDs look fine, but others can look a bit pixellated and the colours sometimes aren't perfect... on the other hand it does play packed bitstream XviDs, a nice touch is that you can press the chapter skip button and it'll skip forward about three minutes through the file, and I haven't yet come accross any XviD file that it outright wouldn't play.Read full review