At first I was very pleased with this product as the design is very good, it does not take up much space in terms of height and the blue light and opening mechanism of the DVD tray is a pretty nice touch. However, I found this DVD recorder to be quite difficult to set-up and to receive all the channels available to you (especially in Auto set-up mode) and is complicated if you are also trying to connect satellite receivers to the system as well. However, this may apply to me more particularly as the recorder was not fully compatible with the satellite receiver I own. My first experience of this DVD recorder was not good, as the first recorder I got was faulty and needed replacing. Once I did install it and recorded my first few programmes, at playback the results were good. I was told that the DVD recorder would provide almost identically crystal clear playback as the original image, and upon watching the highest quality recordings possible it was certainly very good. However, problems start arising after fast forwarding through the programme at highest speed for a long time, which means at playback I found the picture to be of lower quality and very 'blocky' and blurry. Another drawback I noticed was that occassionally and very unpredictably there would be green lines over the recording at the bottom and top of the screen although at the time of recording they were not on the TV screen. Other than these two problems it is a nice DVD recorder in terms of looks, design and ease of use, particularly the ease in which you can set-up timer recordings of programmes using a very user friendly programme on the recorder with the video plus codes. Overall, although easy to use and looking good I do not consider it to be any better than any other DVD recorders I have used and due to problems I have experienced with recordings of my programmes I no longer use this recorder.
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Feb 19th, 2005
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