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Posted by Bob on 10/23/05 13:31
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:27:30 +0100, "Paul" <paul.olivier@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
>after a budget dvd recorder with hdd. found a lite-on 5026 at a good price
>(200 ukp) but are they any good? i have a dvd writer made by lite-on in my
>pc and am happy with it.
Ilo is a store brand of WalMart. The model prior to the current one,
the DVDR04, was a Lite-On. It was purported to be defective, so Ilo
changed to the CyberHome 1600 for the current DVDR05 model.
What that tells me is that LiteOn does not need to be in the DVDR
business.
200 is around $360 which is enough to get a Pioneer, rated as the
best if not one of the best DVDR HDD units. I spotted an 80GB and a
160GB.
Unless you record everything in sight, 80GB should be sufficient with
medium resolution (4 hours on a DVD => ~4GB storage) - that will give
you about 80 hours strorage if my estimates are correct.
For my money I am tired of being an early adopter so I am going to
pass on DVDR HDDs this year and see what happens next year around this
time (Christmas season). I want to see two TV tuners in the unit so I
can record two shows at the same time.
--
"What the American people have seen is this incredible
disparity in which those people who had cars and money
got out and those people who were impoverished drowned."
-- Ted Kennedy on Hurricane Katrina
"Ditto"
-- Mary Jo Kopechne
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