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Paul
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Sun Oct 23, 2005 3:27 pm Post subject:
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after a budget dvd recorder with hdd. found a lite-on 5026 at a good price
(£200 ukp) but are they any good? i have a dvd writer made by lite-on in my
pc and am happy with it.
paul
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Damian Burrin
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Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:11 pm Post subject:
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| Quote: | (£200 ukp) but are they any good?
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Don't get me started on liteon. bags of shite and god awfull customer
service. Mign still pay back correctly after three replacements and now
11months of chasing them i've given up.
Do a search on this news group for Liteon 5006 to say my previous comments
and experience.
Damian
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| Quote: | after a budget dvd recorder with hdd. found a lite-on 5026 at a good price
(£200 ukp) but are they any good? i have a dvd writer made by lite-on in
my pc and am happy with it.
paul
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Bob
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Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject:
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On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:27:30 +0100, "Paul" <paul.olivier@ntlworld.com>
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| Quote: | after a budget dvd recorder with hdd. found a lite-on 5026 at a good price
(£200 ukp) but are they any good? i have a dvd writer made by lite-on in my
pc and am happy with it.
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Ilo is a store brand of WalMart. The model prior to the current one,
the DVDR04, was a Lite-On. It was purported to be defective, so Ilo
changed to the CyberHome 1600 for the current DVDR05 model.
What that tells me is that LiteOn does not need to be in the DVDR
business.
£200 is around $360 which is enough to get a Pioneer, rated as the
best if not one of the best DVDR HDD units. I spotted an 80GB and a
160GB.
Unless you record everything in sight, 80GB should be sufficient with
medium resolution (4 hours on a DVD => ~4GB storage) - that will give
you about 80 hours strorage if my estimates are correct.
For my money I am tired of being an early adopter so I am going to
pass on DVDR HDDs this year and see what happens next year around this
time (Christmas season). I want to see two TV tuners in the unit so I
can record two shows at the same time.
--
"What the American people have seen is this incredible
disparity in which those people who had cars and money
got out and those people who were impoverished drowned."
-- Ted Kennedy on Hurricane Katrina
"Ditto"
-- Mary Jo Kopechne |
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Paul
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Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject:
Re: Lite-on recorders any good? |
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"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
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| Quote: | On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:27:30 +0100, "Paul" <paul.olivier@ntlworld.com
wrote:
after a budget dvd recorder with hdd. found a lite-on 5026 at a good price
(£200 ukp) but are they any good? i have a dvd writer made by lite-on in
my
pc and am happy with it.
Ilo is a store brand of WalMart. The model prior to the current one,
the DVDR04, was a Lite-On. It was purported to be defective, so Ilo
changed to the CyberHome 1600 for the current DVDR05 model.
What that tells me is that LiteOn does not need to be in the DVDR
business.
£200 is around $360 which is enough to get a Pioneer, rated as the
best if not one of the best DVDR HDD units. I spotted an 80GB and a
160GB.
Unless you record everything in sight, 80GB should be sufficient with
medium resolution (4 hours on a DVD => ~4GB storage) - that will give
you about 80 hours strorage if my estimates are correct.
For my money I am tired of being an early adopter so I am going to
pass on DVDR HDDs this year and see what happens next year around this
time (Christmas season). I want to see two TV tuners in the unit so I
can record two shows at the same time.
--
"What the American people have seen is this incredible
disparity in which those people who had cars and money
got out and those people who were impoverished drowned."
-- Ted Kennedy on Hurricane Katrina
"Ditto"
-- Mary Jo Kopechne
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decided not to go with lite-on in the end. now looking at a panasonic
DMREH50 this has an 80 gig hdd. a little more expensive at £270 ukp but i
have had panasonic av equipment in the past and never had any reliability
problems with them.
paul |
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Bob
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Sun Oct 23, 2005 9:54 pm Post subject:
Re: Lite-on recorders any good? |
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On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:05:27 +0100, "Paul" <paul.olivier@ntlworld.com>
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| Quote: | decided not to go with lite-on in the end. now looking at a panasonic
DMREH50 this has an 80 gig hdd. a little more expensive at £270 ukp but i
have had panasonic av equipment in the past and never had any reliability
problems with them.
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I too have had good service from Panasonic over the years. But I have
read that recently the quality of their DVDRs is not what you would
expect from Panasonic.
If I had to replace my Ilo unit (and I might - I have 90 days to
evaluate it), then I would go for the low cost Panasonic DVDR.
If you want a DVDR HDD then you really should consider the Pioneer
even though the price is high.
Before you commit, you might want to visit these forums.
http://club.cdfreaks.com/
http://www.videohelp.com/
http://www.cdrinfo.com/
http://www.avsforum.com/
http://www.digitalfaq.com/
--
"What the American people have seen is this incredible
disparity in which those people who had cars and money
got out and those people who were impoverished drowned."
-- Ted Kennedy on Hurricane Katrina
"Ditto"
-- Mary Jo Kopechne |
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Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:03 am Post subject:
Re: Lite-on recorders any good? |
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I tested a Pioneer alongside a Toshiba and opted for the Toshiba. The
Pioneer has many more features, but implements them not a well as the
Toshiba. I can't stand the constant noise of downloading the TV Guide
at all times of the day and night and the jerky response to scans and
special effects. The Toshiba is quieter but has the fan on all the
time. It implements the edits and special effects much better.
Overall if time is not issue, wait another year for the bugs to be
ironed out as HDD DVD-Rs are still evolving.
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:54:30 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Bob) wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:05:27 +0100, "Paul" <paul.olivier@ntlworld.com
wrote:
decided not to go with lite-on in the end. now looking at a panasonic
DMREH50 this has an 80 gig hdd. a little more expensive at £270 ukp but i
have had panasonic av equipment in the past and never had any reliability
problems with them.
I too have had good service from Panasonic over the years. But I have
read that recently the quality of their DVDRs is not what you would
expect from Panasonic.
If I had to replace my Ilo unit (and I might - I have 90 days to
evaluate it), then I would go for the low cost Panasonic DVDR.
If you want a DVDR HDD then you really should consider the Pioneer
even though the price is high.
Before you commit, you might want to visit these forums.
http://club.cdfreaks.com/
http://www.videohelp.com/
http://www.cdrinfo.com/
http://www.avsforum.com/
http://www.digitalfaq.com/ |
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