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Hard Drive DVD Recorders
« on: 12 September 2009, 21:20:09 »
Been considering it for a while now.

Been looking at getting one of the Pansonic ones with the 400GB Hard drive.

Any one got one, any issues, anyone recommend something different.

Tempted to buy the smaller HDisk version and risk fitting a 1TB drive in it when the warranty is up, any on know of any issues there.

TIA. :y
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Re: Hard Drive DVD Recorders
« Reply #1 on: 12 September 2009, 21:28:02 »
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Re: Hard Drive DVD Recorders
« Reply #2 on: 12 September 2009, 22:44:41 »
Why do you want the DVD recorder bit?
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Re: Hard Drive DVD Recorders
« Reply #3 on: 12 September 2009, 22:55:01 »
I've got an older Panasonic (DMR-EX75 IIRC). Works OK but I find navigating around with the remote control painful. Utterly unresponsive and not very intuitive IMHO. They threw buttons at that remote control until no more would fit. ;D

The newer models may well be better, of course, but worth having a play with one.

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Re: Hard Drive DVD Recorders
« Reply #4 on: 13 September 2009, 00:01:48 »
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Why do you want the DVD recorder bit?

Erm,  mmmmmm, let me see, ermmmmmmm


Ah, to stop the hard drive getting full.  ::)
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« Reply #5 on: 13 September 2009, 09:40:13 »
what for?
You have sky plus hd iirc?
I realise your hd box unfortunately wont allow you to tune to itv hd but you are missing absolutely nothing there, trust me. The Bill and champions league.(in sd anyway)
So you dont need the freeview tuners either imho.

I have an older dvd recorder bought prior to sky plus arriving under my tv some years ago, with the intention of recording the best stuff from sky. Havent ever used it apart from making sure it works. Just dont need it. Sky plus is so easy to use, and recording from it means you cant watch anything else anyway, until the recording is finished.
(Er, must check that, havent used it for so long they may have improved it on the software upgrades.)

My recorder is nothing more than an expensive clock, and a crap one at that as the digits are too small.
And Kevins comments re menus are true here as well.

And another thing, (well maybe?), have they made a recorder that will record and playback in hd with 5.1? I am very out of touch with the tech, last i looked, along time ago now, one did not exist...???

Afaict, you may be better off finding a fault with your current hd box, changing it under warranty for the one that allows the new epg and  itv hd, then sticking a bigger hard drive in that...?

Or am i out of touch?
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Re: Hard Drive DVD Recorders
« Reply #6 on: 13 September 2009, 09:43:07 »
ah just read the specs again, blu ray recorder. About bloody time though. :-)
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« Reply #7 on: 13 September 2009, 09:44:33 »
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And another thing, (well maybe?), have they made a recorder that will record and playback in hd with 5.1? I am very out of touch with the tech, last i looked, along time ago now, one did not exist...???
All DVD recorders play back in 5.1, however they won't record or playback in HD because DVD isn't HD (that's what Blu-ray is for).
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« Reply #8 on: 13 September 2009, 09:53:57 »
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And another thing, (well maybe?), have they made a recorder that will record and playback in hd with 5.1? I am very out of touch with the tech, last i looked, along time ago now, one did not exist...???
All DVD recorders play back in 5.1, however they won't record or playback in HD because DVD isn't HD (that's what Blu-ray is for).

Your quite right re blu ray KW. But my dvd recorder wont record 5.1. Putting the format aside, my main point is any recorder seems unnecessary if you have sky plus hd? No?

Think a slight cross post there as well.

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« Reply #9 on: 13 September 2009, 10:26:25 »
I've got two Panasonic DMR-EH58's . been using them for nearly a year now with no problems . I'm very happy with them ,great recording quality and easy to use.

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Re: Hard Drive DVD Recorders
« Reply #10 on: 13 September 2009, 11:43:40 »
Having 4 TV's in the house and justone method to record at the momnet then I feel limited as to where I have to watch stuff.Hower if the Humax foxsat HD had a DVD drive then I would have one fitted 1st thing tomorrow inmy bedroom.  sadly it doesnt, but the Pnsonic has one of the units with twin freeview.

The sky box i good, but the fitter yanked out theTV cable and left it out side. Thereave been quite a few ocasions where I have been recording 2 channelsand wanted to watch someting on terestial TV but couldnt.  Plus I dont see the point of wtching someting that I am recording at the time, unless of course I want to watch it a 2nd tme.

Obviously Bluray would be the way to go, but I cant justify the current price they want.
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« Reply #11 on: 13 September 2009, 16:56:49 »
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Obviously Bluray would be the way to go, but I cant justify the current price they want.
BD-R drives are only £150, and the blank media is only £5.

If you want perspective on that, I paid £1500 for my first CD Recorder back in 96 (which couldn't even do audio), and the blanks were £18 a go.

Burn-Proof (Buffer UnderRun.. or whatever you want to call it) didn't exist back then, so if your PC decided to do something during the burn (eg, screensaver), you were f**ked at that point for £18.

Two of them in the bin, and the dodgy copy of MS Office 97 you were selling for £50 was all of a sudden costing you money.
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