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Advantages: good price now down to around £99, looks nice
Disadvantages: quite slow at ejecting disc from standby(i.e. when not spinning)

when I got my LG DR7400 home, I was feeling rather apprehensive, were there going to be any more nasty surprises? Remote Dimensions 21cm x 5cm The best things about the LG DR7400 are its nice slimline design, which is understated and doesn't have any garish flashing lights or really naff glowing record buttons. Secondly, it comes with a very good remote control, as pictured on the left. Some remote controls for other brands of DVD recorders have ...
...pleased to say that the LG DR7400 doesn't suffer from this, if you want to zoom in all you have to do is press the zoom button on the remote, once for 2x and twice for 4x and again to go back to normal. Other buttons on the LG's remote that others leave out are: Eject, Instant Skip, FF, REW, Return, Display, Audio, subtitle, zoom, clear, Chapter Add, Repeat, A-B Repeat, Thumbnail, Marker (Bookmark) and Bookmark search. The LG's remote contains 3 ... Read review

Advantages: lots of connections
Disadvantages: difficult to use, poor disk compatability

Not the best DVD recorder available. It has some good points but i feel these are outweighed by its bad ones? It is a DVD-RW recorder that for when it was produced had an impressive array of features. Just a shame that they are not easy to use. First the connections: 2 X Scart on the rear AV in/out on rear AV in/out on front S-Video front and rear IEEE-1394 Firewire on front Component Video on rear. It does not have HDMI for connecting to ...
...keep most people happy? Playback. It has a habit of refusing to play disks particularly any produced on a PC, I'm not talking illegal copies i mean home movies put onto DVD. It also refused shop bought DVD's on occasions. When it does play disks the picture and sound quality are acceptable but not spectacular. Recording. No VideoPlus only a timer facility that promises up to 7 programmes in a month, but with a maximum recording time of 4 hours ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent playback and recording. Extremely easy to set up and use
Disadvantages: Can't think of any. Unit is quite deep in size but this is not a problem for me

...the sound coming from the LG (I have to say played through my Marantz SR4300 AV Amplifier) it was cinema brought home except that it was even more detailed and not just loud. to put it simply I am amazed by the sound quality. So I recorded my team playing and winning their cup match. This was a good test as football matches can be dodgy on recording unike soap or flims made in specially lit studio. The quality was brilliant. So far I have thrown ...
...collection) and yet no coaster. Choosing a recorder was not easy. The Panasonic DMR E55 has received so many good reviews. However things have moved on the Panasonic machine has become a good machine that is rather basic in feature. It has up to 16hrs recording on one disc, but who would want to cram 16 hrs of low quality recording into a single disc when discs are so cheap these days ... Read review

Advantages: DVD-DL recording, optical output, DVD-R and DVD-+R, lots of features
Disadvantages: DVD drive reliabilty, can't watch and record at same time

I originally bought the Liteon LVW-5045GDL+ model fro Currys Digital a coupld of years ago when they were doing it on promotion for whatever football cup was on. We used it for several months without problems, recording to both the HDD and DVDs, and playing many DVDs - both commercial and home-burned. After about 8 months, the DVD suddenly stopped recognising blank DVDs. I took it back to Currys, who replaced it with the HD-A 740 GX model they ...
...really don't get this as Liteon have a great reputation for their optical drives in PCs! Anyway, aside from this, the 740 is a great DVD recorder - it can record to Dual-layer DVDs, has optical output for home cinema, can be firmware upgraded, and has a pretty decent - if complex - menu system. Avoid using the EP and SLP modes - the picture quality is a bit jagged at times. Some makes of DVDs are simply not recognised, but that's really not big ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, small
Disadvantages: Need to eb there to amke sure it records

i am happy to say i no longer use this product. I got this DVD recorder for only £190 which is a really good deal so i thought. I got it home and attempted to set it up but i just could not get on with it at all. i read and re read te instructions but i still coudl not do it. I got a freind to set it all up and then gave it a second try. I did manage to record on it twice but boteh time s it recorded teh worng thig at teh wrong time an dote rtime ...
...only time i coudl record was if i there to check it and that was pointless. when i did manage to record things the recordindg would only play some of it and would sometimes freeze or not play at all which again was annoying. i did call teh helpline but tehre not very helpfull at all ... Read review