I've been reading a lot of negative opinions on DVD Recorders and was wondering if the market has any good one's. Wheather it be a DVD with Ram or just a recorder. Does any impress anyone? Thanks for your time.
Well a ram recorder is becoming a thing of the past. I would not recommend getting one of those. As for a recorder, I have the Emerson EWR10d4. Its very good in my opinion, however, at this point after you buy it you must call funai and ask them for an upgrade disc. This will allow you to burn 8x discs. Out of the box you can only use DVD-RW 1x-2x and DVD-R 4x. This is just a recorder without a hard drive. 4x discs are becoming hard to find in stores, however, you can get them at many places online. The ILO DVD+R recorder is supposed to be decent as well. Both are inexpensive units and both are around 100 bucks. My two cents.
PLEXTOR PLEXTOR PLEXTOR just the best. make sure to get cache size as big as posible. i have a PLEXTOR DVD-RW-RL 16X 8MB CACHE, MODEL#PX716A. It is an awsome drive and freaking fast. It burn all my backups (PS2 and DVD) flawlessly. I bought mine at Amazon it was aboout $150 but i dont remember exactly. Good Luck I hope this will help.
i'm not sure i have understood if you want a stand alone dvd recorder i have a pioneer 520h (with HD) and it's a really beautiful device!
Sorry I didn't make myself to clear. I mean one that works with your TV's and VCR's. It seems that most everyone has problems of some kind with each model. I was wondering is there any that work fine and have no problems. Looking to purchase some for christmas presents. I shop early while I have funds in summer. Thanks for your time and responses.
I'd go with the Sony RDR-GX300. It burns on all the formats unlike Panasonic which uses the expensive DVD-RAM discs and non-rewritable DVD-Rs. Video recording quality is excellent. You can get it at Crutchfield for $230 with no tax and free shipping (after a $20 Mastercard discount) - http://www.mastercard.com/us/specialoffers/savings_discounts/crutchfield.html I stayed away from ones with hard drives because my cable company gave me a DVR with 160GB HD already. I think ones with hard drives wear out more easily because they are always recording. You might also want to wait for Son'y new line of DVD recorders which will record on dual-layer discs, but the discs are still too expensive for me at $4 a piece.
skweky If you motherboard supports Serial ATA (SATA) then I highly recommend the Plextor PX-716SA. You can find it at: http://www.directron.com/px716sasw.html for: $119.00
I have two Panasonic dvd recorders in daily use and they have never let me down. The DVD RAM disks are more expensive for a reason, you can do so much more as far as editing, time slipping etc. than you can with DVD+R/DVD+RW. They also support DVD-R and DVD-RW. As for being an older format, who cares if it does what you want it to do.
