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I was going to buy the Philips but after reading the forum is this wise? Has anybody got any alternatives at about the samre price that will play DVD`s on my Sony DVP 535. Any help appreciated.

Mark Hawkins

do not buy a philips!! as you can see from this and many other forums, there are serious reliability issues- if the recorder cannot even read it`s own discs, how are any other players? I used a philips for 2 weeks along side a panasonic recorder.the philips went back and i now have 5 panasonic recorders, one of which is the hs2- the dogs nuts in my opinion. the panasonic ram system is superior in every way and will write to cheap (75p) dvd-r discs which can play in all but the most elderly dvd players. dvd-ram is the way ahead...and the dmr-e30 is pretty much the same price as the philips - £380.00

This item was edited on Tuesday, 14th January 2003, 00:17

Thanks for that, top advice and they must be good if you`ve got five of them. Off to search the web now to see if i can find one. Cheers again

£399.95 is the best price I have seen. Where for £380?

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/jsp/makelink.jsp?productsku=857619

I got a dmr-e30 for £360.00 from Dixons over xmas, - enter one of their competioins, they send you a thank you e-mail with a 10% e-voucher,and bob`s your uncle!!

Or, you could wait 6 months or so for more recorders to come out with Hard Disks. I was very tempted by the DMR-E30 over xmas, but the limited capacity of the removable storage isn`t enough of a step forward. Even the 9.4Gb disks you have to manually flip to use the full capacity.

If the HS-2 was £500 I`d buy one now, but £700+ is just too much.

Hard disk DVD recorders are the product of this year, along with PVR`s which don`t record to DVD (not interested). We`re going to see quite a few models launched. What`s needed is the lower-end manufacturers to get involved too to drive the prices down.

Pioneer`s upcoming DVR-77H looks pretty appealing as it features an 80GB hard drive, and writes to both DVD-R and DVD-RW.

http://www.avland.co.uk/pioneer/dvr77/index.htm

There`s also another model boasting a bigger 120GB drive...

http://www.avland.co.uk/pioneer/dvr99/index.htm

They come as part of Pioneer`s move into cheaper DVD recorders with the DVR-55, which is hoped to cost under £400, and as with the rest features a new thumbnail indexing system...

http://www.avland.co.uk/pioneer/dvr55/index.htm

The existing Pioneer 7000 has a reputation for being arguably the best DVD recorder on the market, so hopefully these new machines will be of a similar quality.

Depending on its price the DVR77 could be the machine for me.

Desk

This item was edited on Wednesday, 15th January 2003, 18:36

Thanks for that. The HD is not really an issue because i have SKY+, so i`ve gone ahaead and ordered the DMR - E30. Should be here on Friday. Thanks for the reply though