Digital Video Recorders

Memory Card Recorder

Advantages: Everything, its perfect
Disadvantages: None, Zilch, Zip

This Memory Card Recorder realy is a complete and utter god send. Are you tired of always missing youre favourite TV shows not becuase you havent recorded them but simply because you dont have the time to watch them due to a busy life. Well this little gem may be the technology angel that you have being looking for. LOOK: Firstly this memory card recorder looks astonishing. It is a metallic silver with a black front whch is extremely small, light ...
...stand anywhere in your home and will definetely not look out of place. This recorded will fit in almost the tiniest spaces with ease and will look extremely sleek and modern. Ease of Use: Simple, what more can I say. Plug it in and tune it to the channel u want to record, press one button and away you go. Well I forgot to mention the most difficult bit. Slot your memory card into the appropirate slot. What a hard process! No all joking aside even ...

KPN7 02.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of SanDisk V-Mate Video Memory Card Recorder - Digital AV recorder

Archos AV420

Advantages: Big screen, TV recording. Loudspeaker
Disadvantages: Quite Big

...if you need to get files from your computer but do not have the cable handy. It also provides extra storage which is always handy. Overall, this PMP is excellent, and I think that the only better PMP is the Archos AV500, which I am now looking to buy. ...

bindie 29.06.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Archos AV420 Pocket Video Recorder 20 GB

Never Miss your Favourite Programs Again!

Advantages: Reliable, Twin Tuners, Lots of functions, Good remote
Disadvantages: Can crash, editing function a bit basic, Transferring programmes to PC doesn't work very well

...I decided to get the Humax 9200TB Freeview PVR (Personal Video Recorder). This is sort of the Freeview equivalent of a Sky+ box, letting you record programmes to a HDD (Hard Disk Drive), like you would find in a computer so there's no more need for video cassettes or even DVD-Rs. Mine has 160GB of hard drive space which gives me 100 hours of video with this device. There are other Freeview PVRs with larger capacities but I thought that this was sufficient ...
...When watching a programme, the Humax actually records, as it goes along, which enables me to pause and even rewind live TV. I find this invaluable as it means I can always rewind back to TV or film moments that I've missed from not paying attention or if I need to pop to the loo. The remote feels very robust and I really like the quality of it. Nothing like the cheap, low quality ones that come with cheap DVD players and it has all the buttons needed ...

Deru 04.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Humax Duovisio PVR-9200TB

Nifty little Multi media device with extras

Advantages: It does all that you could ever want with more thrown in just for fun
Disadvantages: Battery life can seem short

It does all that you could ever want with more thrown in just for fun. What do you want from your multi media player? Well whatever it is this one does it. Easy to use, loads of optional extras, very good sized screen, built in speaker and excellent storage capacity. From your PC you can treat it as an external hard drive, store and view all of your photos, homemade video clips, mp3 tracks. Put your favourite films tv, shows and videos on it to watch ...
...on to listen to instead of using an additional mp3 player. You can plug it into your TV and record straight to it. You can buy a very good quality helmet camera to record straight to the device which is such good quality i use it when out mountain biking. If you want you can store all your files on it to transfer between computers the possibilties are endless. ...

smashford 04.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Archos 404 Camcorder 30 GB

A shot in the dark... NOT

Advantages: Very compact; takes decent stills and video
Disadvantages: Useless flash; initially awkward to operate

...Nikon digital SLR and a Sanyo Xacti. Now, I used to have an old 35m Canon SLR that I loved but my daughter "borrowed" that when she went to university to study for a degree in Photographic Art and I never saw it again. I was very tempted to get the Nikon but these days most of my photography is done on holidays and for that you definitely need something compact, so I went for the Sanyo instead. The Sanyo Xacti range of cameras are advertised as ...
...a firmware upgrade from the Sanyo website to enable it to support the larger cards, up to 8gig in capacity. I haven't done that yet as I struggle to fill the 2gig card I bought for it. The camera doesn't come with a memory card and there is no built-in memory so, until you've bought one you can't use it. The camera is powered by a Sanyo DB-L20 Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) battery that must be fully charged first time before use. The manual says that a battery ...

grahamft 01.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Sanyo Xacti VPC-C6