YAMADA DVR-9300HX. DVD RECORDER WITH 320GB HARD DRIVE
YAMADA DVR-9300HX. DVD RECORDER WITH 320GB HARD DRIVE
RECORDING MEDIA: DVD+R/RW, HDD.
RECORDING TIME: MAX 100/200/300/400H ON HARD DISC, MAX. 6H ON DVD.
INTERFACES: VIDEO , S-VIDEO, Y/CB/CR, SCART, 5.1CHANNEL, DIGITAL AUDIO, (OPTICAL, COAXIAL), ANALOGUE AUDIO.
DIMENSIONS: 430 X 69 X 306MM
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Panasonic DMR-ES20DEBS DVD RAM Disc Recorder 
Used Price: ?84.95
Customer Review: 6 months then bang
I purchased the Panasonic recorder because it had good reviews and also did all the things I wanted - play DVDs’ ,record plus freeview all in one neat box. But all I had is trouble. From the start the machine would not keep any preferences when it is turned off, so it has to remain on all the time unless the machine decided to turn it self off - for a self check - which it does, often. Now 7 months since purchase it no longer records or plays any disk! DO NOT BUY THIS MACHINE - YOU WILL WASTE YOUR MONEY!
Customer Review: Clever but complicated
This is a very clever machine with all these recording options but it takes a while to understand how to do things. I don’t find the remote or the menus very intuitive and had to read the manual several times to find out how to do things. Panasonic’s bumph convinced me that RAM disks were a great idea so I bought loads but then found out they don’t work in other DVD players! Am I expecting too much? If Apple can make computers easy to use why can’t someone make DVD recorders easy to use? Still it works fine and it’s great to have Freeview built in.
Panasonic DMR-ES10EB-S DVD RAM Disc Recorder 
Used Price: ?74.00
Customer Review: Broke twice, and slow!
I’m on the my second player, and about to return it to get another!!! Yes, it’s broken again. The first one died after about 2-3 months, as it didn’t want to read any dvd. It didn’t matter if it was a dvd-rw, dvd-r or a brand new dvd. I got it swapped in the shop I bought it from. This one has been fine for many months, but now it’s doing the same. It is saying that dvd’s are unformatted, when they are not. I format them again, and it comes with the same message. It’s also starting to get picky over what it wants to play, and this includes purchased films. It’s also slow. From off to record takes over a minute. From off to play is about the same time. It’s very slow. Also, if you are watching a film, and you turn the player off, then it goes back to the very start. Not like most players which stop half way. I would recommend getting a dvd recorder with a hard disk, as you don’t have the issues of dvd’s getting scratched, and the player only wanting to use bits of the dvd. I had been putting up with it being slow, but now it’s just annoying. I wish I had spent my money on something else, and I’m very disappointed as it’s such a good make. Don’t buy this one. You also can’t edit dvd’s before you finalise them (dvd-r), so you can’t add chapters. And it does a check at about 3am if you put it on quickstart mode, which is very noisy, and has woken me up before I turned this function off!!
Customer Review: Good but…….
I was very pleased with this at first, the picture quality on long-play is very good except for Football and boxing. Any fast sports and the picture pixillates. Sports should be recorded on short-play which gives 2 hours and long enough for most football except where there’s extra time(World Cup!). If something good comes on and I want to tape it, I can’t just bung in a cd, it has to be formatted and this is annoying! To be honest vcr tapes had a lot of bonuses in terms of being user friendly, bung it in, press record, don’t like that? bit-wipe it! I will eventually buy a hard drive recorder.
Sony RDR-HXD1065S - DVD Recorder With 250GB Hard Drive 
DVD Recorder with 250GB Hard Disk Drive for up to 387 Hours of TVRecording without the need for blank Discs. Twin Analogue andDigital Tuner for clear TV reception anywhere in the UK and up to 8Days TV programme information displayed On-Screen. Digit
Amazon Price: ?399.99
Customer Review: another excellent sony product
let’s get the down side out of the way first,it’s a bit pricey but the quality is outstanding,250gb,copy mp3’s to hard drive,jpg,top notch sound and picture(every fine tuning of recording and playback of picture pssible)coaxial and optical out amongst other connections,what more can be said,just another fantastic product from sony!
Customer Review: Sony RDRHXD1065S - Expensive but good
I love this product. It is a bit too pricey and the lack of two digital tuners seems an oversight but the picture quality is excellent, use of the Freeview EPG is easy (much better than GuidePlus) but two great features are the ability to add your MP3s and JPEGs. MP3s are stored in album order and are easily played from a subsection of the recorded programmes list. Similarly JPEGs can be transferred straight from the camera memory card and there’s a great feature to turn JPEGS into a movie with themetune and transition effects and burn back onto a DVD. So the only downsides are price and lack of a 2nd tuner. Picture quality, sound, ease of use, photo and MP3 management are all great.
