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I'm looking to buy a decent DVD Recorder compatible with the forthcoming change to digital TV but specifically for recording stuff off my video camera. In that respect, the Sony stuff looks like it's best and the one I'm looking at is the ******710 ** model which has a 160Gb hard disk too. The thing is that it comes with Freeview installed and I already have Sky. Are the two compatible and does anyone have any experience of these or alternative recommendations.
The Panasonic ones are pretty good. I've got the base model (DMR-ES10 I think) and i can highly recommend it. Pretty much all the reviews I've seen rate the Panasonic ones very highly. I use mine to archive programs of my Sky+ (hence i didn't need the hard drive) and it does the job perfectly.
We've got the slightly older Sony RDR GXD 500 model (with Freeview but no harddisk). Happy with the quality and ease of use etc but it is very slow to start-up, load and unload etc. It's also got quite a noisy fan so if you leave it on but aren't actually playing anything you can hear it in the room. We did get it at a good price but if I had my time again, I'd buy something with the hard-disk because it gets a pain not having enough space on the DVD that's in the machine when you're trying to record something! Unless you record everything in LP or EP (quality still fine) you'll only get an hour or so on each DVD. I don't know if the slowness is normal in DVD recorders (ie it has to index write etc).
LuS1fer said:
I'm looking to buy a decent DVD Recorder compatible with the forthcoming change to digital TV but specifically for recording stuff off my video camera. In that respect, the Sony stuff looks like it's best and the one I'm looking at is the ******710 ** model which has a 160Gb hard disk too. The thing is that it comes with Freeview installed and I already have Sky. Are the two compatible and does anyone have any experience of these or alternative recommendations.
The JVC suggested is not suitable for your requirement, for starters it is not future proof for DVB, so a lack of freeview cancels it right out.
The only two (or 3) available at the mo are
The Panasonic DMR EH60D
The Sony RDR-HXD710
The Sony RDR-HXD910
As I stated in my previous posts the Panny is a bit on the slow side loading DVDs.
The Sony looks like the better option and the difference between the above models is the size of the hard drive.
For more details read the reviews in this website , select the make and model and read about it.
www.homecinemachoice.com/cgi-bin/displayreviews.php
Podie said:
See here --> www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=141&h=&t=228692
based on der's comments on this thread I went for Panasonic DMR-EH50, read/writes in multi format (all formats I think), had plenty of disk space for my needs, optical output for my AV amp, and a rather handy SD card slot on the front.
it's dead easy to use, great sound and picture quality. I just wish I wasn't so impatient on Friday when I simply HAD TO BUY IT THEN, and instead I should have got it from der at a much reduced price. Ho Hum
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>> Edited by FunkyGibbon on Tuesday 20th December 13:39
Another vote for the Sony HXD910 with 250GB hard disk. I've been uploading tapes straight from camera (hi-def images downsampled to standard definition PAL). An hour's video takes 7GB on disk at highest quality, so there's room for a few tapes on the disk
The moaning reported earlier was about Sony DVD players, not recorders. And if there was real merit to the complaints, there would be a class action suit
Edited to add - the Sony 910 upscales to 720p resolution through HDMI interface, useful for flat screen tellies
>> Edited by mikef on Tuesday 20th December 22:00
The moaning reported earlier was about Sony DVD players, not recorders. And if there was real merit to the complaints, there would be a class action suit
Edited to add - the Sony 910 upscales to 720p resolution through HDMI interface, useful for flat screen tellies
>> Edited by mikef on Tuesday 20th December 22:00
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