Posted by r.gray on 11/14/05 08:41

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:14:12 GMT, "{{{{{Welcome}}}}}"
<bhx___spam@trapped___hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>Thus spaketh Patrick Nethercot (ngs):
>> fastrack1966@clara.co.uk wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Does anyone have one of these beasts that will record onto ANY type
>>> of DVD? Mine is a GDVD306R and is fussy which brand of disc you use.
>>> The manual admits as much which is just great.
>>> It says recordable and rewritable DVD's can only be used "after
>>> finalization". I know what finalization means on a PC drive but it is
>>> not explained in the Goodmans manual nor can I see it in the menus.
>>> Do Goodmans make DVD discs? I'm using a ragbag of DVDs (R and RW)
>>> that were bought for my PC and there were no problems that way on
>>> the PC. The only disk that worked first time was a DVD+RW that is
>>> completely unbranded, heaven knows where I bought it. No point
>>> phoning Goodmans or Argos on a Sunday so here's hoping.........
>>
>> Sounds like Goodmans is A DVD recorder to avoid then...
>
>
>They certainly are.
>

I purchased one of the above and had loads of trouble with it locking
up etc. Eventually took it back to Argos who gave me a refund. Went to
Amazon and got one of these Lite-on things;

http://tinyurl.com/bhwr2

from Amazon. Allthough not fully featured and a bit fussy about the
type of disks it will take, I am well chuffed. Theres lots of stuff on
the web to hack this machine for multi region or removing macrovision
etc. If you want a cheap basic recorder to mess around with, then you
could do worse.

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