Customer Reviews:
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 Quality Piece of Kit September 12, 2007
David R. Bishop (Plymouth, UK)
82 out of 82 found this review helpful
I have had one for a week, and I am very pleased with it.
The build quality is very high. It was a surprise to see it was made in Slovakia, which is not a country I associate with high-tech manufacture. Maybe it is time to change my perception of that land.
It is a boon to have so much in one box, DVD, VHS, HDD, Freeview, even an SD card slot. It has done away with three machines, and cut down on the snake's honeymoon of mains, ariel and scart leads. This is a good way of justifying the expense to a houseproud partner!
It is fairly easy to use. The instructions are easy to follow, and it has 'contextual intelligence'. By that I mean, if you insert a pre-recorded DVD, it assumes you want to play it, if you insert an SD card, it asks if you want a slide show or to copy photos to the HDD.
One potential problem with this machine is that it only has one tuner. If your TV is analog and you aren't planning to upgrade it before the switch off, you will lose the facility to watch something and record something else when they switch off the analog transmitters. You have to be a bit canny to make sure you are future proof. I am OK with it, my telly has integral freeview.
It can copy to and from any of its drives, but will not touch copy protected stuff like pre-recorded DVDs and tapes.
I am happy with the machine. I would say its main facilities are the 'all in one' nature, the quality and the huge HDD.
Absolutely no regrets about this purchase November 15, 2006
N. Evans (Devon, UK)
199 out of 203 found this review helpful
Excellent piece of kit, does everything I want and more. Picture quality is good, comes with clear, informative instructions. The remote and menu structures are precise and intuitive. Setup was a breeze, I think the only input from me required was name and address, which can be stored for identification following theft (good idea) Integration with our Panasonic LCD via HDMI is great, it means that mostly we only use one remote all the time. This is a superb item for either technophobes and technophiles, very highly recommended.
After 4 months October 27, 2007
Difficult_2_Please (UK)
50 out of 51 found this review helpful
Still delighted with this.
Yes it's a shame it doesn't have two tuners, and USB would be better than SD (which I don't use), I can't get it to read MP3 from a DVD-RW, and I agree it would be nice to be able to record two things at once (I can't help pushing things). But considering how flexible it is, it is fairly easy to drive, the quality is good and excellent value. It's playing my CDs (including the MP3s), archiving my old VHS tapes to DVD (trimmed & tidied), and regularly used in 'chasing playback' mode to skip commercials and pause the TV.
A must have recorder February 20, 2008
G. A. Caruana (UK)
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
This is an excellent reliable product and I recommend this to everybody. It is 4 things in one box, SET-TOP BOX, HARD DRIVE, DVD RECORDER, VHS RECORDER. G A Caruana
Brilliant piece of kit May 13, 2008
Anthony C. Higginbotrham
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Have had this a week now and think it's absolutely brilliant - Easy to set up and he instructions not at all difficult to follow - Just what I wanted
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