Akura ADV14S

Advantages: space saving
Disadvantages: sound and picture quality

...Myself and my fiancee where looking for a small screen lcd tv for our bedroom to save a little space and jazz the room up a little, i came across a few at our local mackro store after looking on the net for one. There where three to choose from but this Akura at £110+vat was the cheapest but looked the most stylish of the lot but i didnt see it working, how i wished i had. We got it home and set it up turned it on and tuned it on, all this was very easy and simple to do and the instructions if you need to follow them are all easy to read and follow.. When we had set it all up we turned it on and the first thing that struck us was the picture quality, it was, to put it bluntly bad, and then the sound quality, well if you put your telly in a big tin then you will get some idea as to what it sounds like, we tried messing... Read review

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Advantages: High Speed Dubbing
Disadvantages: Unable to Dubb from Hdd to DVD other than @ the quality originally recorded.

...the SPLIT)facility where when you use the SELECT key a screen warning appears to let you know where you wish it to act upon the recording.There is however a dark marker that appears on the progress bar which appears onscreen during edit & playback (stays in view for approx 10 seconds or so). In all for my first venture into a HDD/DVD recorder I find the unit to be quite easy to get on with but the helpline staff on 01422 203676 could be a bit better informed & the handbook a bit more explicit in some areas. As with all remote controls the print could have been larger not having 20/20 vision & why don,t manufacturers make them backlit .Nobody watches DVD,s in a brightly lit room ,Do They?... Read review

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Advantages: HDD/DVD/Timeslip recording, connections, clear menus, price
Disadvantages: Size, slowish start-up/preparation.

...INTRODUCTION: Well where do you start with a machine like this......the beginning I guess - so here goes, we are previously heavy VCR users taping programmes galore on a daily basis for using and viewing between two VCR's in two separate rooms, and using a (rather sadly) 14 tape (two per day) recording and indexing system so organised and disciplined it would put NASA to shame, so after watching the advent of HDD/DVD players develop and drop in price over the past couple of years the decision to switch over was gingerly undertaken. The basic criteria being two units required - one for both rooms - preferably the same type for compatibility purposes of DVD's once written (as I know these machines are notorious for not liking other machines discs), must be HDD for convenience and having the ability to dub to DVD disc to be able to take... Read review

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