Hikona 1001

Advantages: easy to use
Disadvantages: only one

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Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Cheap, Easy To Configure, Portable, Great Kitchen TV
Disadvantages: A Little Small, Not Flat Screen, Limited Navigability On DVD Menu

...I spend one hell of a lot of time in the kitchen, and in my old apartment it was well and truly separated from any form of media interaction. I decided that I would get a small TV for the kitchen, although being a lowly IT Consultant I couldn't really afford one of those wall mounted flat screens and due to the irepressible nature of the dirge on terrestrial TV I decided that I needed one with a DVD player built in so that I could just stick on a film or Stand Up comedian and cook away happily listening to that in the background whilst I conjured up some meal for The Blonde and I. I found this Hikona TV in Tesco's of all places at £79.99. Now, I'm not quite sure where else to purchase this, but Ciao very helpfully tells me that you can buy it online from Ebay and it has been rated by 546 people. I think that it is likely... Read review

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Advantages: Divx/Xvid playback, usb and firewire ports present, wealth of connections.
Disadvantages: Slow starting from standby, is quite large in size, no videoplus.

...the recorder is brought out of standby. These backlights are quite bright really, so it may not be to everyones' taste Recording and Playback Media: Records to DVD+R and DVD+RW, with +R being the write once variety of DVD and +RW being the rewritable variety. The +RW discs can be written and erased like VHS tapes, for up to about 1000 times or so, but unlike VHS the picture quality recorded will not degrade over time as the disc is used and reused. This unit will NOT record to the DVD-R/-RW discs but it does however read them with no problems. In addition to playing standard dvds, the SV-1001 will also play: DVD-R/-RW * DVD+R/+RW * Music CDs * including HDCD CD-R/CD-RW * VCD / SVCD * MP3 music files on CD and DVD * JPG photo files stored on CD and DVD * Kodak Picture CD DivX / Xvid (MPEG4) * It will also play .MPG files... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful