Girls Aloud - Off The Record (DVD)

Advantages: An insight into a modern day girl group
Disadvantages: Didnt really show you too much, felt like the whole band was holding back something

...Well what can I say,to behonest I was very sceptical about this dvd and about girls aloud in general until i watched this dvd.I was really blown away by the songs,the outfits and just general performance. I felt this dvd from 2006 showed the edgier sound and style of girls aloud,the whole dvd had a more mature sound and feel to it that I was expecting. This dvd really provided an insight into girls aloud,and I have to say they were all completely different to what I was expecting,they were actually down to earth! The 6 episodes are packed with what goes on behind the scenes with the band members,what they go through,where and when,it shows there cometimes hectic lifes,through both a personal more private perspective and work perspective. Even though this dvd did not cover a massive period of time (april to may ish time 2006),it still...

lauzdoors 29.08.2008 · Read review
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* Girls On The Record *

Advantages: Fans will love it!
Disadvantages: None!

...Girls Aloud are a British girlband consisting of five members ; Nadine Coyle , Cheryl Cole , Sarah Harding , Nicola Roberts and Kimberly Walsh. Girls Aloud were formed on the reality television show ; Popstars The Rivals in 2002. Since then they have become a huge success. To date they have had eighteen top ten singles , including three number ones. Their style of music consists of pop and electro pop. Girls Aloud : Off The Record was actually a six-part series that Girls Aloud recorded for E4. The series was then released on DVD in the United Kingdom in 2006. The show comes under the reality-tv genre. The show follows Girls Aloud on their day to day life as part of one of Britian's top girl bands.. It wasn't until recently that I knew about this DVD when I saw it sitting on a shelf in Woolworths for £6. I enjoyed watching this...

xdonzx 30.12.2008 · Read review
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Unusual teen flick-Empire Records

Advantages: Quirky, fun and great soundtrack
Disadvantages: Predictable and a little sappy on occasions

...I first watched Empire records as a teenager and thought it was one of the best films ever made. Now nostalgia can make me watch it again and again and although I have down-graded it somewhat from 'World's Greatest Movie', I still feel that this is a good film about young adult life and deserves to be a teen classic. The film is about a group of teenagers who work in an independent record store (called Empire Records) run by Joe. The story opens with one of the employees, Lucas, discovereidng that the store is not making enough money and may be sold to a chain called Music Town. To try and save the shop he takes the day's takings and tries to win gambling in Atlantic City but ends up losing it all. Empire Records now in serious danger of having to be sold to the chain, the film follows one day in the life of the store and it's employees...

flyingllamas 29.06.2009 · Read review
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Recording Digital TV to Hard Disc - Must Have

Advantages: 14day Electronic Programme Guide-Simultaneously Watch a recording and record 2 other programmes
Disadvantages: The temporarily restricted power of terrestrial digital transmissions

...on, and with some boxes the details can take quite a time to show up Setting up '' With most VCRs you can just tune a channel on the TV to the RF output of a VCR, but FVRT does not have an RF output You need to connect its best RGB/video (AV1) SCART output socket to the TVs input socket through a SCART lead, which is not supplied The TV's TV/AV function is then used to select the right AV channel to display the picture from FVRT There is a second (non-RGB) SCART output socket which can be used to backup recordings onto a DVD or Video recorder Potential Problems '' ' The remote control is a little fiddly and plasticky, but there are plenty of alternative remotes available The originally supplied 3A power supply was inadequate and caused crashes when...

tranx 13.06.2006 (19.07.2007) · Read review
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Review of Digifusion FVRT200 Digital Video Recorder

Freecome DVD RW Recorder USB 2.0

Advantages: ummmmm
Disadvantages: Doesn't work very well, slow, intermitently recognises disks, poor back up service, need I go on?

...I ordered my Freecom DVD Recorder LS USB 2.0 after my CD/DVD drive packed up on my 15 month old HP Desktop. I wanted it mainly to load CD ROM and burn DVD's from movies already converted to DVD format on my hard drive. Being that my PC had no disk drive I relied upon this external drive to load the bundled DVD burning software (Roxio 9). This took several days and many attempts. Then I tried burning my first DVD. After taking 3 hours to do a task that previously took about 30 minutes, this recorder produced a disc that no dvd player in my home recognised (and I have 4). I found the user interface very unfriendly and it simply didn't work. Needles to say, I'll be getting a refund!...

RMcCartyhy 16.06.2008 (15.06.2008) · Read review
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* Girls Aloud On The Record *

Advantages: GA Must Have , Entertaining
Disadvantages: Becomes A Bit Repetitive

...Girls Aloud are a British girlband consisting of five members ; Nadine Coyle , Cheryl Cole , Sarah Harding , Nicola Roberts and Kimberly Walsh. Girls Aloud were formed on the reality television show ; Popstars The Rivals in 2002. Since then they have become a huge success. To date they have had eighteen top ten singles , including three number ones. Their style of music consists of pop and electro pop. Girls Aloud : Off The Record was actually a six-part series that Girls Aloud recorded for E4. The series was then released on DVD in the United Kingdom in 2006. The show comes under the reality-tv genre. The show follows Girls Aloud on their day to day life as part of one of Britian's top girl bands.. It wasn't until recently that I knew about this DVD when I saw it sitting on a shelf in Woolworths for £6. I enjoyed watching this...

xdonzx 15.10.2008 (16.10.2008) · Read review
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Welcome To The Videos

Advantages: great music videos, like 'November Rain', 'Don't Cry' and 'Paradise City'.
Disadvantages: No extras. A few videos missing that I feel should have been on it.

...disappointment when the band hit the stage to close out the awards ceremony. Axl Rose was almost unrecognisable, with his dreadlocked hair, and awful plastic surgery. As he ran around the stage he could barley hit the notes he used to, and he was clearly out of breath, out of shape, and out of tune. The once forthcoming Guns 'N Roses album, Chinese Democracy has been plagued by constantly changing release dates and has become something more of an urban legend in the music world, as fans have lost all hope of it ever being released. Judging by the performance on the MTV Video Awards though, perhaps this is maybe for the best, and fans should be left with the great music (and videos) they once made... <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Guns 'n' Roses - Welcome To The Videos DVD, has a collection of 13 music videos...

lizzy8 28.05.2005 (21.10.2005) · Read review
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Combined DVD Recorder and VCR

Advantages: Seems to do everything the maker claims
Disadvantages: hav'nt found one yet

...I have recently purchased the Toshiba D-VR16SB combo unit, and am initially very pleased with it. It is a neat looking unit, and I found the initial connecting and set up relatively easy.The unit has an auto tune facility to find the terrestial TV channels, and scart connection for satellite, and facilities are there for s video or audio/video cables if required. For DVD recording it has a choice of six modes, giving up toa max of 600 minutes on a 12cm DVD disc, down to the highest quality level of recording, giving 60 mins of very high quality.I have used the recorder on the standard setting, which gives 120 mins at a fairly good quality level. You can use DVD RW disc, which you can wipe and reuse, or normal discs which you finalise, and they can then be played on any DVD player. If you wish to record onto Video tape, then the VCR...

johnboycoastie 11.07.2006 (12.07.2006) · Read review
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Review of Toshiba D-VR16SB DVD Recorder/VCR Combo

Feature filled and capable dvd recorder

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

...backups of your DVD movies to Divx/Xvid and get 4 or more on one DVD for easy watching. There are plenty of uses for this feature. I should note however, that the unit does NOT record to mpeg4, it only plays it. The media types that I have marked with a * above, are ones that I have personally tried and found to playback successfully. I want to note though, that an anamorphic SVCD that I tried, failed to playback in the correct aspect ratio, which is a slight minus. Setup: I found the setup procedure to be fairly easy really. The manual contains plenty of clear illustrations on how to physically connect the unit up in various configurations with all its connectors. However the recorder only comes with a scart cable and a composite video/stereo audio cable (the cable with yellow, red and white connectors). This means that if you are...

feroxy 01.07.2005 (27.11.2005) · Read review
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Review of Sumvision SV-1001 Recorder with DivX/Xvid Compatibility

Empire Records

Advantages: probably the best low budget film ever
Disadvantages: a bit dated now

.... It took me 3 years to find the film on video and then the video machiene broke down and i bought a dvd player!! Now i can't see Empire because they haven't released it on DVD yet. I was charged 9.99 from HMV. And the rating is a 12. It lasts around 86 minutes. The sun describes it as " This is a must see movie". And for once i agree with the sun. (ignore the SFX evaluation it doesn't have any)...

emma1984 19.05.2003 · Read review
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