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There`s a Cyberhome DVD recorder in ASDA going for £89 - is it any good? Also, there`s a little midi stereo with FM radio type DVD player with 2 speakers (made by Dual) for £69. Does anyone know whether it plays MP3s?

I`m returning my second one tomorrow. the first one would fail after an 1hr 30mins recording and the second one wont let me access anything.

I bought one from Asda a few weeks ago and am perfectly happy with it. Remember that Asda will refund you if not happy so why worry. The 1 year guarantee is with Asda as well so no posting back if anything goes wrong.

They also have the Pye PRV645 now reduced to £99.97. Appears to be based on the Phillips 610, from others comments, and Pye is a brand of Phillips.

The Cyberhome doesn`t have RGB input as far as I could tell, where as the PYE does, which won it for me. It was a replacement for the DUAL unit which just overheated and failed to work after a few months. The PYE has a fan in the back as well so cooling is better controlled.

The only three issues I have with it at present are:

a) NO 1hr recording mode, lowest is 2hr, but has a useful 2.5Hr mode.
b) The remote sensor on the unit is very sensitive to stray IR. Especially from the IR ports of laptops, or atleast mine is. Just kept repeating the last command I issued from the remote every few minutes, so initially it kept turning on and off!! Disabling the IR on the laptops has resolved the problem.
c) Can`t handle RCE discs for the wrong region even after being made multi region.

But as has been said before ASDA have a great returns policy so if this unit plays up it will go back and something else will take its place, but for me I doubt it will be the Cyberhome model they currently have.

Andy