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Posted by Micro Henry on 09/29/19 11:32
wayfaring stranger wrote:
> Hi gang --
> I've been looking over the specs for the Pioneer DVR-633H-S DVD
> recorder. Is anyone familiar with this model who would like to provide
> a critique? Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.
> Jerry
>
Yes, I am familiar with it.
I just gone done looking at one to replace my DVR-520HS when the HDD had an
error(I since Recovered). The two main features that upset me were the TIMER
and the EDITING.
The 520 was very easy to program. It tells you the day of the week for the
date, makes every MON, TUES,..easy to find, and is a line item table that's
easy to use to find existing programming status. The 633 does not. You
manually enter the date but it does not tell you the day of the week it is.
But it does let you select every week for that unknown day. It's a IPG by TV
Guide, and it was impossible to use. The salesman and I spent 45minutes
trying to program it, and never succeeded. If you use the IPG, it takes up
to 24hrs to load it. I usually like to start 1 minute before the program and
end 1 minute after. The IPG doesn't let you do that. So no leaders and
tails for editing purposes. It does allow you to turn off/on a repeated
program entry. The 520 does not. You must delete it to turn it off.
The editing sucks. They removed the NAVI and the INDEX marking from the
remote to make room for the IPG keys. Now the only way to edit is through
the new Chapter edit menu. The new menus is hard to use. But you can create
index marks there. However you can only view what you are marking through a
little peep-hole in the upper left hand corner of the screen. This is a mean
way to do frame by frame marking. The 520 lets you use the full screen and
mark them with the remote. That history on the 633/533.
On the good side, it has 160 Gbytes off HDD space. It can do dual layer
discs, and supposedly allow you to edit other programs while recording. The
lowest record rate(highest compression) allows 802 DVD minutes(very poor
video). But on the other end they have added XP mode that gives 42 minutes
of DVD High quality recording. There are still 32 Manual settings. But the
data rates have been re-scaled to fit in the 802-DVD-minute compression data
rate.
In closing, I could not use the 633 for my application. The salesman found
me another new, in the box DVR-520. I bought that instead, and am a happy
camper again. This unit is out of manufacture and hard to find. But I think
it can be found on the internet at places like B&H Photo/Video in New York.
BTW, I did get my HDD ERR solved on my original unit.
uH
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