I purchased a Cyberhome 1600 DVR from Asda approximately two and a half years ago. For its price of around £65, it has lasted a lot longer than I thought it would and is still going strong, despite the regular hammering of childrens DVD's it gets. :)
It is well styled, and compact so as ... Read review
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A review by StarSurfer on Cyberhome CH-DVR 1600 November 19th, 2007
Author's product rating:
Picture Playback
Good
Sound Level
Good
Ease of Use
Simple
Range of Features
Limited
Value for Money
Very Poor
Advantages:
Cheap at the time, Easy to use, Well Written Manual, Quality Playback .
Disadvantages:
Poor quality system with fundamental flaws !
Recommend to potential buyers:
no
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I purchased a Cyberhome 1600 DVR from Asda approximately two and a half years ago. For its price of around £65, it has lasted a lot longer than I thought it would and is still going strong, despite the regular hammering of childrens DVD's it gets. :)
It is well styled, and compact so as not to be too over intrusive when placed under your T.V.
Playback of DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, Audio CD, Video CD, Super Video CD, CD-R & CD-RW with audio, MP3, JPEG, MPEG gives absolutely perfect picture quality and sound, comparable and as good as that of more superior and expensive systems.
The only flaw!! And quite a flaw, is the DVD Recording section. I struggled to record onto discs, with the DVR1600 failing to finalize, or finalizing but on playback flashing a "Disk Unknown" alert. Further investigation on the internet into the problems, revealed these where common issues. People suggested changing between DVD+RW/DVD-RW to find the one that worked best, this failed also. The reliability of individual machines core programming was also questioned. So after being left with a stack of unusable DVD-R's, I now use the DVR1600 purely for DVD playback.
A Multi-Region code is also obtainable off the net to change from the Region 2 standard setting, like everything else with this machine, this is easily done.
Built in features are rather limited.
The manual is well written and clear with all instructions,right through from Set-up to DVD playback/ Recording.
Overall - Cheap, but less than £20 now will get you just a DVD Player.
Advantages: Cheap, easy to use with clear instructions. Good user interface Disadvantages: None apparent so far. However it's quality may be reflected in the price.
Purchased for under £70 from Asda.
Looks good. 2 scart sockets and AV connections are handy to have, plus has normal co-axial aerial socket.
Easy to set-up. Instructions are about the easiest to understand and very comprehensive.
Had it for over a month, for the price a very good machine.
Obviously, it may not last as long as more expensive DVRs, but still.
Also, there is a hidden menu to change the region, so that you can make it region free ... ...DVR comes preset to play region 2 dvds but using the hidden menu you can set it to play any region, Region 0 (i.e. region free) is the most useful as it then enables you to play DVDs purchased from abroad.
The remote control is small and unobstrusive, quite neat. Takes a flat cell battery like a large watch battery though, so buying a couple of those soon after buying the DVR is probably a good idea!
Records using DVD+Rs and DVD+RWs. Up to 6 hours ...
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