Akura Ahltv 15 DVD

Advantages: Good value, a fair few features
Disadvantages: Some people may require more features, not the best on the market

..., but what I do know is that I’m really pleased with it. So, I’m hoping that’s enough to go on and to satisfy your needs. ▲ Initial Tuning ▲ When I bought the TV/DVD it was very simple to tune in. It took me a mere 15 minutes and by that time I had all my channels tuned and my DVD raring to go. Tuning was simple, you simply chose “search” from the menu and then you had three choices – you either chose Auto Search (which tuned in any channel it finds onto one channel number. This is the quickest solution, but what it doesn’t always do is put BBC1 on 1, and ITV1 on 3 and so on.) The second was Fine Tune (which found the channels for you on certain channel numbers and you decided to save it or not. Finally, there was Search (which allowed you to search yourself which can take forever... 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 general useability & fairly intuitive menu system is quite good.The helpline promised to ring back twice & they did in fairness but the agent couldn,t answer a few of my queeries & promised to ring back again after speaking to they're technical staff.This didn,t happen . One queery was that after finding the menu for setting the record quality (about 5 settings available on either HDD or DVD from HQ to SP all the way down to SLP). Why when I set the DVD to SP in theory just over 2Hrs & some 10 or more minutes of recording space when I then selected to dubb a 2Hr HDD program it would not allow this as the recorder was telling me NOT ENOUGH SPACE ON THE DISK! The helpline chap couldn't answer as to why there was a discrepancy & promised to consult the technical department & call back. I now believe that as the HDD recording... 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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