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Posted by Brian on 11/24/05 08:35
Micro Henry <uH@MyServer.Loc> wrote:
>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.
I hope Pioneer is reading this text and improves on the next model DVD
recorder.
> 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 way around that problem is to change the end time so that it only
records one minute of a program...better than deleting the entry.
>
>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.
That's one feature I would miss if I upgraded my Pioneer DVD recorder.
You need to full screen when editing (such as frame accurate chapter
marking)
>
>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.
There's also the Pioneer DVR-720 that has a 160 gig hard drive, it's
very simular to the DVR-520.
I've found over the years that when equipment gets upgraded then there
are things that are missing such as an headphone socket.
>
>uH
Regards Brian
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