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REQ: Dvd Recorder for Xmas

  • 12-11-2007 11:58pm
    #1
    Super Sidious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 973 ✭✭✭


    hey my mums been moaning bout not being able to record Micheal Palin while No Frontiers is on or something like that, VCR packed in so was lookin for a decent but cheap DVD recorder...

    ...Anyone have one thats bout 100-150 and is pretty easy to use etc. wit all the usual crap?

    Cheers,
    Ian


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  • #2
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,200 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    There's the Plustron Divx Player / DVD Recorder in Dunnes for €99.

    Not sure whether it's good or not.

    Thread on it here


  • #3
    Fresh Pots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭Fresh Pots


    theres a great philips one in powercity for €129 at the moment. I picked myself up one today.

    http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-17-R3480


  • #4
    bbbbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭bbbbb


    Probably better getting one of those on the page with a hard-disk?
    Don't need DVDs if you're just recording to watch later & delete.
    Also allow you to pause live tv (usually). Handy if the phone rings during coronation st.!!!


  • #5
    bittihuduga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭bittihuduga


    there is one alba dvd recorder in tesco, maynooth for 99euros


  • #6
    Sqaull20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,044 ✭✭✭Sqaull20


    bbbbb wrote: »
    Probably better getting one of those on the page with a hard-disk?
    Don't need DVDs if you're just recording to watch later & delete.
    Also allow you to pause live tv (usually). Handy if the phone rings during coronation st.!!!

    Agree you should pony up and get one with a hard disk :D

    Much easier to use and recording onto dvd can be a pain...160gb should do the job...

    http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=324187


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  • #7
    christo82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 737 ✭✭✭christo82


    bittihuduga wrote: »
    there is one alba dvd recorder in tesco, maynooth for 99euros

    don't know if it's the same model as mine, but I bought an Alba one about a year ago from Argos. It has given me some problems. Firstly it stopped being able to read discs-it would say 'no disc' when there was a disc in it. I actually took it back and got a replacement after this. Every so often it does the same thing but then fixes itself, and also some of my DVD-RWs have become coasters because themachine has failed to read them saying 'ERROR'. So have lost a few programmes and films through that.


  • #8
    Tipsy Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭Tipsy Mac


    christo82 wrote: »
    don't know if it's the same model as mine, but I bought an Alba one about a year ago from Argos. It has given me some problems. Firstly it stopped being able to read discs-it would say 'no disc' when there was a disc in it. I actually took it back and got a replacement after this. Every so often it does the same thing but then fixes itself, and also some of my DVD-RWs have become coasters because themachine has failed to read them saying 'ERROR'. So have lost a few programmes and films through that.

    To be honest you really do get what you pay for, in my experience any of the Alba goods I have purchased have been complete junk which was poorly designed and not at all user friendly.


  • #9
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,555 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    bbbbb wrote: »
    Also allow you to pause live tv (usually). Handy if the phone rings during coronation st.!!!
    Im thinking of getting one but how would I know if its capable of pausing live TV - I assume there is some technical wording for this.


  • #10
    marrm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭marrm


    tesco: alba dvd recorder, 99.99, less 30% off on your clubcard, = 69.99. Bought one today! :):):)


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