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Old Dec 31, 2005 | 03:59 PM
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Hello Chaps,
The girlfriend wants to get me a DVD recorder for me birthday... just looking for some ideas. I don't want one with HDD as i have Sky+. Looking to spend about £150ish.

Any good ideas?

Cheers Guys.

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Old Dec 31, 2005 | 04:04 PM
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Lite-on All-write dual writer is nice for the money. £121 inc vat

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=78146
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Old Dec 31, 2005 | 04:11 PM
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I just bought a Sony RDRGX210S Dual format DVD Recorder at the Sony Centre in Oxford for £130.00. Very good quality.
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Old Dec 31, 2005 | 04:14 PM
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Cheers guys. just looking them up
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Old Dec 31, 2005 | 04:15 PM
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I just got a Panasonic DMR-ES10, multi-region from Richer Sounds for £129.95. It seems to work very well - records to DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM. Plays DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, CD-R and CD-RW including MP3. No problem with RCE discs. The picture quality seems at least as good as my old Toshiba SD-9000, which was a top-of-the-range player in its day and which set me back £650
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Old Dec 31, 2005 | 04:21 PM
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Are these multi region?
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Old Dec 31, 2005 | 04:22 PM
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Nice, cheers Andy
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Old Dec 31, 2005 | 04:42 PM
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Why not get a DVD writer for your PC? You can get a good one for £40. Since you've got sky+, I assume you need it for making copies etc.? The PC one will do this and a lot cheaper. Sure you can wire the HDD recorder to your PC to make copies of progs made off the TV etc.
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Old Dec 31, 2005 | 04:49 PM
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Whats the best option to look out for?

whats dual layer?

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Old Dec 31, 2005 | 04:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Dracoro
Why not get a DVD writer for your PC? You can get a good one for £40. Since you've got sky+, I assume you need it for making copies etc.? The PC one will do this and a lot cheaper. Sure you can wire the HDD recorder to your PC to make copies of progs made off the TV etc.
yeah, did think about that. Only prob is we have no DVD player at the mo as the last one is naff..

also might use it to copy from Camcorder..

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Old Dec 31, 2005 | 07:04 PM
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I can highly recommend the Panasonic DMRES20D, it comes with a freeview tuner and also records to DVDRAM disks, which means you can start watching a programme while the recorder is in the middle of recording it.

I just bought one for £149 from Richer Sounds.
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Old Jan 1, 2006 | 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Mark Kwiatkowski
I just bought a Sony RDRGX210S Dual format DVD Recorder at the Sony Centre in Oxford for £130.00. Very good quality.
Got one of these too, Mark. Very happy with it

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Old Jan 1, 2006 | 10:44 AM
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Remember in 3-6 months everything will be HDef once the DVD format is resolved so you may wish to wait.
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I got the Toshiba RDXS34 for my birthday last June. Its pretty good, does all the formats, has time slip etc.The DVD player is prog scan too and pretty good. Whatever you get go for as big a HD as you can, mine is 120GB and I fill it all the time...
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Good point about HD, though high definition recorders and media will still be expensive for a few years. I'll be waiting to see what happens with the HD-DVD vs Blu-ray format war, and the inevitable region coding / copy protection debacle that will go with it.
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Originally Posted by AndyC_772
I just got a Panasonic DMR-ES10, multi-region from Richer Sounds for £129.95. It seems to work very well - records to DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM. Plays DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, CD-R and CD-RW including MP3. No problem with RCE discs. The picture quality seems at least as good as my old Toshiba SD-9000, which was a top-of-the-range player in its day and which set me back £650
Ive also got one of these, excellent value for money and highly recommended. Should also come set up as multi region, mine was
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