HITACHI VT-FX440E VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDER.

HITACHI VT-FX440E VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDER.
6 HEAD NICAM
NTSC PLAYBACK
TWO SCART SOCKETS
DIGITAL AUTO TRACKING
AUTO HEAD CLEANER.
TIMER RECORDING
AUTO REPEAT PLAYBACK

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Philips DVDR610 Multi Region Capable DVD Recorder
Used Price: ?89.99
Customer Review: Garbage
This dvd recorder has put me off Philips products for life. It is the worst piece of electrical equipment I have ever owned. As other reviewers have noticed it can simply stop in the middle of a recording. Some discs it simply will not read - on one occasion it would not read the second disc of a 4 disc boxset, even though every other dvd player I own would read it. Don’t waste your money.
Customer Review: Completely unreliable - avoid like the plague
Like many other reviewers I’ve had loads of problems with this infuriating machine. When it works it’s great but it will often switch off suddenly during a recording or on playing a disc so if you want to record something it’s a complete gamble. A friend of mine who has a similar Philips model has had the same problems. Also it will not recognise some discs which it has previously recorded on so you can’t even access wg=hat you’ve recorded. I ahould have known I suppose because my Philips dvd player also developed a fault. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Sony RDR-HX725 DVD Recorder with 160GB Hard Drive
SONY DualLAYER DVD recorder recording on a 160Gb hard drive The RDR-HX725S features a 160 GB hard drive so you can record andenjoy all of your favorite TV programs on your schedule.
Used Price: ?148.23
Customer Review: Worst dvd recorder I have owned
I bought this to replace a Medion (Tevion) recorder bought from Aldi. I assumed wrongly that the Sony would be of higher quality. My experiences have been similar to those of other reviewers. The machine has always been impossibly slow, hard to use, and lacking in some obvious features. It has always needed re-booting regularly, and now it has decided to die completely, with the dreaded “HDD error” display. Of course, it is now 14 months old,and just out of the one year guarantee. I echo the advice of other contributors - don’t buy a Sony. I have had no trouble with my Panasonic dvd player,but I wonder now with PVRs and cable/satellite playback whether I need a dvd recorder at all. Very disappointing machine,and very poor value. As for support from Sony - a joke.
Customer Review: Sluggish, poorly thought-out and unreliable
I got my first one of these as a replacement for the Sony RDR-HX510, which broke down after a short time. I have to say I didn’t really like this model. Although it had a hard drive that was twice the size of my previous machine, the extra capacity seemed to have been provided at the expense of many of the features which made the RDR-HX510 so good. Gone was the full-screen edit facility, with the playback being in a much smaller screen within the main screen. The rest of the screen area was needlessly given over to dead space. There were other drawbacks: Gone was the x2 FF and RW option of the predecessor, which I very much liked, and used a lot. Now the first setting was 1.5. Not too bad a speed, but unfortunately rendered next to useless, because playback is not smooth. The predecessor when running in 2x FF would playback the recording at twice the speed, and ran smoothly, whilst also allowing you to hear the double-speed sound track. This was a lovely feature for the purpose of quickly, accurately and easily finding certain points in a recording. The new machine only played back at a slower x1.5 speed, and ‘jumped’ annoyingly every few frames or so as it did so, making the playback so jerky as to be unwatchable, if you don’t want to get a headache. NO RECORD PAUSE!!!!!!!!! Now this is the most bizarre of all the feature cuts made with this supposed upgrade. There was no REC PAUSE button anymore. Again, for the purpose of editing out adverts, this is a command very commonly used (you can’t use the REC STOP function, because this will then break up the programme into what the machine sees as entirely separate recordings, so that a movie for example would be cut up into as many as seven separate recordings, which of course don’t playback consecutively. Therefore, when making a direct recording, you would naturally use the REC PAUSE button at the start of the ad break. This is usually my preferred method of cutting out ads, rather than using the edit facility afterwards, as using the REC PAUSE button gives a seamless edit point in playback, with no momentary freeze, as with recordings edited later in edit mode. Timed recordings The set up for this function was the most complicated and least intuitive I have ever encountered on any television recording device. The menu was very hard to navigate, and when you had finally managed to set your recordings, not all the details were displayed for them on one screen, so it was very hard to go back and review your timer settings. Even after several weeks of using this machine, I could not get the hang of this feature to the point where I could set a timer without thinking about it (as I have been able to do with every other VCR and DVD recorder I’ve owned). In addition, overall the machine was very sluggish. Its response to the remote commander was painfully slow, so editing and titling was a time-consuming nightmare. Nevertheless, I persevered, not wanting the hassle of having to send back another machine. However, the decision was made for me when, after less than a fortnight, the unit developed a fault. While trying to record to the hard drive, I got an error code of C:13 and a message saying ‘The Disk is Dirty.’ Now sometimes you might expect to see that when recording or dubbing to a DISK, as the Sony machines seem to be hyper sensitive, and even brand new disks, straight off a spindle are occasionally inexplicably rejected, but to see this message relating to the device’s hard drive was obviously worrying. I deleted a few recordings from the hard drive, wondering if the fact that the hard drive was nearly full had anything to do with it, but it made no difference. Perversely, although the machine wouldn’t allow me to record anything new to the hard disk, it did let me dub programmes from the hard drive onto DVD disk. However, even this facility was short-lived, and soon it was dead altogether. I got a second one of these models from Hyper-Fi in October 2007. It lasted 17 days before developing the same fault, with the same error message ‘The Disk is dirty.’ This time it wouldn’t even let me salvage the recordings I’d made, as I just got the message ‘Cannot record to this disk’ if I put a blank DVD in. I thought I’d try switching off the unit and unplugging it, as this has occasionally worked with the numerous other faulty DVD recorders I have had from Sony. On this occasion however it just made a bad situation worse. This time when I switched the power back on, all that happened was that the message HDD ERROR appeared flashing in the display of the unit, and that was that. The machine was effectively dead. So this model is appallingly bad to use and equally unreliable. On the good side, Hyper-Fi were brilliant; with possibly the most speedy, efficient and friendly customer services I’ve had the pleasure to deal with. I say that here because the Amazon web site wouldn’t let me submit seller feedback for them for some reason. Bottom line: don’t buy ANY Sony DVD recorder. I’ve had NINE different machines in 18 months, and all have them have broken down within a short time. Of all of them, this was the worst. Get a Panasonic instead.

BBK DW9916C DVD-Recorder, DivX, Card reader :Multi-region player
A multifunctional DVD-Recorder with support for Divx-format. Records directly on p? DVD+R/RW and supports four different quality positions, while recording. It is also equipped with iLink-input for connection to your video camera. A 5-in-1 card reader is also available for memory cards (CF, SM, MS, MMC and SD)

Funai DRV-2737 DVD Recordable,VCR Nicam Silver
The DVR-B2737 is a the user-friendly living room unit which allows you to watch and record your favourite TV programmes and films on DVD or cassette. The combined DVD/VHS player/recorder is the ideal device for enjoying all the films you love on VHS. The DVRB-2737 allows you to store up to 6 hours of digital video recordings on DVD-R and DVD-RW discs. The DVRB-2737 is equipped with 2 scart connector outputs, a digital audio output and an RVP video output. The DVRB-2737 DVD/VHS player/recorder will provide you with hours and hours of home entertainment.