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In Reply to: What are some good/cheap DVD recorders? posted by Coner on November 07, 2002 at 12:11:31:
With a DVD recorder, you have to really watch closely as to the type of media it can use, how you want to use the recorder and what machines you want to play back on. I think there's five types of media, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM, plus hard disk. The Panasonic you saw is about as cheap as you can get a recorder. Personally, I looked at all the different media, what they're good at or bad at, and concluded this was an area I am not prepared to get into yet. Also recorders generally do not have tuners built in so it's not a simple matter of finding a unit that works like a VCR only it records on DVD. So you may want to do some more research to determine if this is something you want to consider at this time. My personal feeling is that this will be a more workable situation in a couple of years.Bruce
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Wow, did'nt know there was that many DVD formats. This would
be used for transfering lots of old VHS tapes to DVD, so don't need
prog. scan and gobs of features. So Pano and maybe philips are the
only two out there?. I thought I saw a Sony somewhere...
I think Pioneer also has recorders. As to recording VHS tapes, if they're Macromedia encoded, my understanding is they won't record (you get jibberish for a picture). The ads I've seen always talk about recording shows (of course, that would be from an external tuner), transfering camcorder tapes and any VCR tapes you have made (again not from a macromedia encoded source which I think can be copied to tape OK as a first generation copy). Unless one of these situations is your major reason for wanting a recorder, I think it may be wise to hold off. For more info on the different types of media, go to http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html.Bruce
No Sony that I know about. Philips and Panasonic are it. And both machines are expensive. I've heard there are some issues on the Panasonics - go to avsforum.com and hometheaterforum.com for details - several threads on both forums.Sorry, misunderstood your original post.
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