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Digital Video Recorders | DVR
We seemingly went from recording our TV shows onto VCR tapes to recording onto DVDs. Many times, you will make a bad disk for multiple reasons. When that happens, the program you wanted to record is gone. Making a recording directly to DVD disks is even less reliable than the old VCR tapes. Why is it that we do not see the DVR, Digital Video Recording to a hard drive, in the electronics stores like Best Buy or Circuit City? It is because they have decided that they will make more money by selling you a TIVO or Direct TV hard drive DVR than if they sell you a brand where you do not have to pay a subscription fee. They are not making all choices of these machines available to you. You won't find them in their stores or even on-line.
Digital Video Recording to the internal Hard Drive has been incredibly reliable. Set it up just like you used to do the VCR and you can record hundreds of programs to your hard drive. If you want to make a more permanent copy, you can copy the program to a DVD disk or a DVD-RW disk. RW means re-writable.
I think there is a conspiracy to not promote the DVR by these electronics stores because their is collusion with TIVO and selling their subscription DVR machine and service. You buy their machine for maybe $300 and then they sell you a monthly subscription service. You NEVER stop paying. They at least should give you the Digital Video Recorder machine, with the subscription, but they don't.
One store that will sell you a non-subscription DVR is Walmart.com. They don't carry them in their regular stores, at least not in the stores where we shop, but they will ship to your local store at no extra cost or to your home for a minimal charge.
A very good buy is the Magnavox H2160MW9. Right now (12/21/2008) this is selling for $240 and has the new digital tuner for over the air broadcasts. Not only will it record to the internal hard drive, it plays DVD disks too. Its all in one. Why buy something less when you only get less functions and less dependability?
- 160GB Hard Disk Drive
- DVD +/-R/RW Recording, one touch two-way dubbing (HDD>DVD, DVD>HDD)
- Plays DVD Video, DVD-R/RW and +R/RW, MP-3, CD-R/RW, Audio CD, JPEG
- Progessive Scan
- Component Video Output
- Rear S-Video and A/V Input/Output
- Digital Audio Out (RCA)
- RF In/Out
- Built-in ATSV/NTSC Tuner
- Wireless Remote Control Included
Here is one person's review of this DVR machine:
"I love this machine. Very easy to use. Remote is bigger than most. Some of my other remotes are so small and difficult to read. This is a good one! You plug the cable into it and the other cable into the tv. I do not have digital cable. You do need a TV that has the three AV jacks or a modulator, i think that is what it is called, costs about $20.00 at Walmart. You can record on the HDD while watching a DVD or you can record on the HDD while watching something else you recorded on the HDD. You can then delete programs you have already watched. So easy to use.
Programming is easy, you can preset alot of programs. I didn't even need the instructions to do it as it had a picture on the box where to plug the AV plugs (red, yellow and white. I was up and running in less than 5 minutes. You can record something from the HDD to the DVD, can't do anything else while this is going on but you can still watch TV by changing the video setting from the TV remote. Great product for the money. I have other DVR players, this one is my favorite. I am not paying monthly fees for a DVR either. The picture quality and sound are excellent. You can't control the sound from the HDD/DVR remote. At least I don't see any buttons to do that. I didn't care about that. It is also lightweight. I truly love this unit. Very quiet as well. It will shut itself off after recording. You can start watching a program and if you get interupted you can hit pause and start watching again but if you have something preset to record, you will lose it without presetting the recording for 30 or 60 minutes or whatever. I have had it for a few weeks now. It doesn't lose time so far as some units seem to do. If you are looking for an HDD unit, for the money, this is awesome and so easy to set up and use daily!! Excellent value. I was looking for one on Ebay. This one is brand new, shipping much cheaper and I did buy the 3 year warranty. I have had problems with Magnavox products in the past. Buy the warranty as well. With the fall season coming up and being on a medical leave, this has been just wonderful for me. If you are considering it, buy it. I have done so much research, this was the best for the money and shipping was very reasonable. I wanted it so bad, I paid for overnight shipping and got it overnight. Buy it, you will love it!"
Here is another Digital Video Recorder review:
"I have really enjoyed this product. Working in the video production industry I have mostly been around Sony and Panasonic brand electronics. I have always considered Magnavox/Phillips to be low-end consumer brand electronics. This product has proven me wrong. I have tried 2 other DVD-Recorders within the last couple of months one Panasonic and one Sony. They both disappointed me with their lack of features, faulty timer recording, and poor quality digital tuners. This Magnavox HDD/DVD recorder is by far better than both the Sony and Panasonic I owned and returned. I love the menu design and options. The digital tuner is very high quality producing a great 480i/p down-convert picture for SD televisions and the 1080p HDMI up-conversion when watching DVD's is outstanding. I recommend this Magnavox HDD/DVD recorder 95%. My only complaint is the cheep dvd tray, it feels very loose and the motor makes much more noise than I am used to on my Mac Tower Pros and other computer dvd drives."
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