|
|
Posted by Paul on 10/23/05 15:05
"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
news:435b8e3f.87299265@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> 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
>
decided not to go with lite-on in the end. now looking at a panasonic
DMREH50 this has an 80 gig hdd. a little more expensive at 270 ukp but i
have had panasonic av equipment in the past and never had any reliability
problems with them.
paul
Navigation:
[Reply to this message]
|