Page 1 of DVD Recorder £119 +FREE £10.00 voucher

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=2501&productId=113957&Trail=C%24cip%3D16704.Sound%2Band%2Bvision%3EC%24cip%3D16728.DVD%2Band%2Bvideo%3EC%24cip%3D16731.DVD%2Bplayers&categoryId=16731&clickfrom=name
Its a Lite-On from ARGOS, plus you get a £10.00 voucher when you spend £100.00 or more.

You can also go through R points and get more discount.

This item was edited on Wednesday, 24th November 2004, 11:17

I`d be off to argos at that price if I did`nt already have one . £119 - £10 = £109.00 is a great price . No wonder vhs is at death`s door .

Might be tempted at that price.....anyone know if it`s multi-region?

There is a long thread on the Region Hack forum, looks like it can be region and macrovision free!

More here:
http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/thread.asp?Forum=176&Thread=309160&Type=1

I have mine reserved to pickup on the way home.... Hmmmm maybe I will knock off early!

Cheers for the spot Zovirax, Tom

Saw the other day for £150 so cheap for multi format. The Liteon 5006 is out with a few enhancements so clear why they want to sell. But £109 for + and - technology. Too good a deal. Only £10 more than my Philips 610.

Many thanks for this spot Zovirax, just collected one and it looks the business!

BTW Maplins have an offer on a pack of 3 Verbatim DVD RW in cases for £4.99. A list of supported DVDs is on the Liteon site here www.liteonit.com/DC/english/disc_5005.htm

I bought the 5005 from Argos when it was 149.95 and it`s a good DVD recorder, but watch out for the following:

* When a recording starts or ends, you get 1-2 mins of a noisy fan kicking in, which actually wakes me up (the recorder is next to my bed) - in the middle of the recording though, it does quieten down to a hum.

* I had to update the firmware (downloadable from the Liteon site - burn it to a CD and then pop it in the recorder) to get rid of "jitter" on playback of pre-recorded movie DVDs (bottom third of the screen affected without the update).

* The recorder-to-TV SCART connection does *not* use RGB (it`s composite), although my unit does have RGB for SCART in, which means that the recordings will be recorded in good RGB quality, but you have to play them back elsewhere to get RGB playback!

* Macrovision protection and no 3-hour recording mode - I`ve not heard of anyone hacking the latest firmware to add these in.

* No Video Plus or progressive scan.

* No real-time clock either onscreen or on the front-panel LED unless you put the unit into off/timer mode - especially annoying when you`re setting timer events and have no current time/date to guide you.

* Mono tuner !! Not an issue for anyone recording via SCART (i.e. Sky/cable/Freeview), but if you`re stuck in the stone ages of terrestrial analogue, then it could be a big issue for you. The onscreen tuning interface, BTW, is terrible.

Having made it sound awful, it`s actually pretty good overall - the "Easy Guider" GUI makes recording/playback/erasing quite simple and the quality of the recordings is excellent. I`m just waiting for the Liteon 5045 to finally turn up in the UK - it`ll fix most of the 5005`s problems I`ve mentioned above (Videoplus, 3 hour mode, RGB SCART out, no jitter, progressive scan and - the biggie for me - recording to hard disk which doesn`t have a noisy fan) and add in "pause live TV" of course.

Did anyone buy it yet? I got it and its not bad, but i am just wondering... should i stick with it or just get a normal dvd player, i kinda like complicated things and remote full of buttons. (like normal video or dvd player)
AJ

Dont let them rip you off

I`m taking mine back- it records in DVD+VR which the Sony DVD rom on my PC will not play. Nether will my JVC DVD player play this type of format
I wanted to record on DVD+RW, then copy to a blank DVD-R on my PC then re-use the DVD+RW.
Also it seems to only record in an aspect ratio of 4:3 from the sky box connected to the scart socket.
Yes I did check in settings, but the only place to change aspect ratio was in playback, which I did & it made no difference to the recording ratio.
May get the player in Aldi`s on Thursday instead.
I did like the fact that I could record from the radio channels on sky straight onto a blank cd, but as I want this to record TV onto DVD its going back (Plus the R.F. out socket on the back was broken when I unpacked it!) Moan over :)

Has anyone noticed the Technosonic on offer at Boots at the moment?

£149.99
reduced to £134.99 with 10% off (today and tomorrow only)
2000 free advantage card points with discount codes TTXG98 or FFAA22
another 800 advantage card points for the purchase

EFFECTIVE price of £106.99
(taking into account the value of the advantage card points - most people regularly shop in boots for their normal personal health needs)

For anyone who doesn`t have an Advantage card or who isn`t interested in collecting points, there are a couple of 10% off codes doing teh rounds at the moment that you can use on top of teh 10% off promotion prices:

HFDM48 (minimum spend ???)
HBST25 (minimum spend £50)

NON-affiliate link:
http://www.boots.com/shop/product_details.jsp?productid=1057806

Does anyone know what this Technosonic model is like?

HtH
RM
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If you`re happy to use them, I also have affiliate links for this deal
(and a number of other Boots bargains) on my website:
http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~lauriem/latest_additions.html#2811200401