Mick

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What is out there? - does any one have one of these?
Tempted to go philips to link best with my TV.

What features are good/bad & where to get the unit for a good price?

Thanks

Mick

Adrian F

I recently got the Toshiba RD-XS32 from Costco believe it is about £370 now with a 80G hard drive it seems Okay. it is just another way of recording TV programs!

ozzy

From what I've read, best ones are from Pioneer, Panasonic and Tosh.

Pioneer & Tosh both support DVD-RW whereas Panny is restricted to DVD-RAM. Some of the high-end ones offer DV-in so you can capture from a camcorder to the disk, edit the footage and then burn directly onto DVD.

Some even connect to a PC to allow you to do the editing on the PC.

I would have went for the Panny, but I wanted DVD-RW support. The Tosh X32 is an excellent machine, but I've heard it's hard to get hold of right now.

More info on the AV Forums

I paid £380 for a Pioneer 420 Multiregion

Stefan

pbee

Im looking at buying the xds32 tosh with the dvd-rw and 80Gb HD.

For £390 for the multiregion version its a bargain.

Reason im plumbing for this is the i-link input so i can attach my dv-cam and burn straight to dvd (or hd edit then dvd). A lot do not have i-link in so you would have to go in analog and convert back to digital and loose quality.

Pioneer has i-link but that model is more exsepnsive, Panasonic do also but its 600 notes.

Sony is about to launch a monster with a 160gb drive and ethernet port but i think this will be about £800.

In the £400 category there is nothing to compete with the tosh.

ozzy

There's a new 400GB one due out from Panny (or maybe Pioneer). Retail is expected to be around £1250.

I did consider getting one with i-Link/Dv-In, but then I have a DVD writer and IEEE1394 on my PC, so I though why pay for the editing features I already have on my PC.

Stefan

Iain Young

Agreed. I've just bought one of these (multi-region) from RGB direct. They are in short supply though (very popular), so probably best to ring first. Mine arrived in a couple of days

Very impressed so far. Connections etc are superb, supports progressive output for my plasma tv, can record one program whilst playing back another, timeslip recording (pause live video) etc. I've even got it controlling my sky box so I can program it to change to the appropriate sky channel from the timer setup screen...

Iain Young

There's a good review thread here....

Av forums review thread

Mick

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Thanks guys... useful feedback


Cheers

Mick

brendy

I have a Phillips DVD recorder with no hard drive - laser disc has been replaced twice in past 14 months.
Good when it works but reliability awful and a recurring problem with Phillips machines of this type - easily found on web searches.
DO NOT BUY A PHILLIPS

pbee

PRC has the mutliregion tosh xds32 delivered for £377.95 and its instock.

http://www.prcdirect.co.uk/PRC/PRC.s...oduct/RDXS32MR

pbee

and i just bought one

Mick

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Very tempting...

Iain Young

Good choice

Mick

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Just doing some web searching... The US seem to have the kit available for the same in $ as we pay in £! - If it were possible to get one shipped over cheaply - would it work here when set up correctly???

Cheers

Mick

djuk

Really depends how the US versions are made - i.e. are they NTSC format only or dual NTSC/Pal. Also, the broadcast system is more than likely to be different so I would guess the internal tuner wouldn't pick up our local over-air broadcasts here. Only other thing obviously is warranty, most brands will offer a local only warranty rather than worldwide so if something went wrong it might end up having to be shipped back to the US.

David