Advantages: Guide+ (when it works), big hard drive, HD upscaling Disadvantages: poor DVD burning, slow interface, regulary locks up and recordings fail
Bought this 22 months ago. Had problems consistently since.
As a DVD player, just like any other, with good quality image, and excellent upscaling feature for regular DVD's to HD TVs.
Recordings are made to buffer then transferred to hard disk when ...
Advantages: Good quality unit, top quality recording, versatile with blank media Disadvantages: Badly designed remote, can be slow to respond when starting up
I have a freeview box with a built in hard drive which is excellent for recording programs at the touch of a button, however, what happens if those programs want to be watched by my friends at their house? I have to record to VHS which is rubbish quality ...
Advantages: Price, Picture Quality, Build Quality, Connections Disadvantages: Playback of pre-recorded and recorded discs
Having mulled for too long I finally bought a DVD recorder to replace our dying VHS. My criteria were +/- RW discs, and able to properly accept an RGB feed - oh and less than £150. This was the only "brand name" unit that met those requirements. Bu ...
Advantages: Stlish, Excellent quality, all dvd formats supported Disadvantages: Slow starting up
Hi, 1st let me just apologise if this review, like my previous is no good, as judging by some of the coments i might aswell not even wrote. Anyway have come back to do this to try and improve.
Right, i won this dvd player about 13-14 months ago in a r ...
Advantages: Guideplus; several recording modes; plays CDs and MP3s Disadvantages: Freezes occasionally; missed programme endings
Setup
Connecting the cables is relatively straightforward using the enclosed diagram. The first time I set it up, I couldn't get the electronic programme guide to work (probably because of a poor TV signal in my area), although I learned to live with it ...
rappinhood 20.07.2005 ·Read full review
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