DVD Recorders > Dolby Digital Plus DVD Recorders

Advantages: Cost ... All in one package!
Disadvantages: Its not a Sony lol!

This release from Daewoo that contains everything you need for modern viewing in one smart box! The DRVT43 comes with a DVD player which is also a DVD-RW, a VCr, and comes with built in freeview... A lot of bit considering you can find them online for £150! And even bettter considering a Sony DVD-RW will set you back more than this whole package! The DVD player will play all dics apart from DivX (which is a format mainly used online anyway) so ...
...friend and it not working (not that im condoning that sort of behaviour lol)!!! If you hav a surround sound system at home this is compatible with that but a seperate amp will be needed--- theres normally one of those in your existing system anyway :D For £150 I dont think you can go wrong, its cheap, its compact and its ready for freeview so instant extra channels --- what more do you need? The biggest Con I would say about this product is it ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent video recording and playback
Disadvantages: Maybe a little pricey compared to some but worth it

RECOMMENDED. VERY well speced. Performance of the unit is just excellent. I received this in replacement for my faulty dvdr3450H which was - frankly - rubbish and kept breaking down all the time, so avoid them like the plauge! Video is sharp and clear when recorded from analogue or freeview and it works nicely with both sky and cable tv. Pauses live tv, has progressive scan and will upgrade normal dvd to high definition 1080 for use on your ...
...of the Rings and Star Wars dvd's and he results were just excellent ! Sound through my Kenwood / Mission / Eltax home cinema set up was just superb. You can even skip commercials when you play back programmes from hard drive, record onto both - and + dvd blanks (both R & RW) so no format worries and it will play DIVX as smooth as glass. It has full media jukebox system which allows you to store music, video and photos onto the hard disc,can record ... Read review

Advantages: Big hard drive and DVD record also HD ready, upscalling
Disadvantages: Difficult menu system, bright blue light on front distracting,

OK, I have only had this unit for one week now and to really truthfull, I wish I had not bought it. Lets start with the outside of the unit. It looks nice being all black because it fits in nicelly under my tv. Now the negative part. When the unit is switched on and is in the standby mode, you have a bright blue light from the power button on the front right side. When the unit is on this light goes off. I thought it should be the other way round. ...
...watching anything where you want the lights out. It is so much so that I have actually put a small peice of sticky tape over most of the light and left maybe a pinhead size showing so you know its powered. The numbers on the readout or small enough to make you squint at them to read if you are sitting, like me, 12 feet away. There is no option to make them bigger or indead make the blue light less bright. When you start the installation process you ... Read review