Re: Best dvd home recorder to transfer VHS to DVD-R?
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:54 am
Hi Alfie,
I have had both a Philips and a Panasonic DVD Recorder with varying results.
I had a Philips 880 Dvd Recorder, and for a time it worked well, however within about 3 months of buying it it went faulty. A new Lens on the laser pickup was fitted. It then started to partly write to a disk then it would go into recovery mode (this happened a lot) so i was wasting a lot of particulary expensive DVD+R media.
After a lot of shouting at the retailer i bought it from they offered to exchange my Philips for a Panasonic DMR-50 which i accepted. Now this machine has not got as much functionality as the Philips but IT WORKS. I have archived at least 200+ hours of video from VHS to DVD and have probably had 2 disks rejected by the recorder. It has loads of AV Connections including SVHS in and out. It uses the cheaper DVD-R media although it uses the DVD-RAM re-writable format which is less common
All i can say is the Panasonic i have got has been far more reliable than it's Philips counterpart. A word of warning though do not contemplate buying any DVD Recorder with a PVR/Harddisk fitted i have been told these really do have some reliability problems.
I have had both a Philips and a Panasonic DVD Recorder with varying results.
I had a Philips 880 Dvd Recorder, and for a time it worked well, however within about 3 months of buying it it went faulty. A new Lens on the laser pickup was fitted. It then started to partly write to a disk then it would go into recovery mode (this happened a lot) so i was wasting a lot of particulary expensive DVD+R media.
After a lot of shouting at the retailer i bought it from they offered to exchange my Philips for a Panasonic DMR-50 which i accepted. Now this machine has not got as much functionality as the Philips but IT WORKS. I have archived at least 200+ hours of video from VHS to DVD and have probably had 2 disks rejected by the recorder. It has loads of AV Connections including SVHS in and out. It uses the cheaper DVD-R media although it uses the DVD-RAM re-writable format which is less common
All i can say is the Panasonic i have got has been far more reliable than it's Philips counterpart. A word of warning though do not contemplate buying any DVD Recorder with a PVR/Harddisk fitted i have been told these really do have some reliability problems.