anyone have either emerson dvd recorder from Walmart and do you like it?

These are from Super Media Store: http://www.supermediastore.com/taiyo-yuden-4x-dvd-r-media-silver-matte-spindles-100.html#description

This is a very reputable seller as I understand it. I just don't know what is wrong either. I believe the Japanese Maxell's I have are 8x but I will check again.

I can use the CompUSA discs except they will not play back on other machines at times.

TDK, Maxell, Verbattim all work fabulously. I have used a variety of cheaper ones. It is a mystery as to why these will not work.

Greg, if I sent you one, would you try it in yours?

Happy thanksgiving everyone.

Jesse

 

For those of you with a dvd burner in your computer... did you install it yourself? I have installed a hard drive, modem and ram before. Would it be similar to installing a hard drive?

What is the advantage to using your pc to burn dvds? I assume editing and copyright stuff.

Jesse

 

Very easy. Just remove the drive you have and replace with the new one. Or if you have room for two just set jumper and install. It comes with instructions that tells you how to do it. I know a person that had never been inside a computer, and she installed one.

 

Gary,

Great. The computer shop in town wanted $200.00 to put one in (thats the drive and installation). Could you recommend a good drive? Preferably under 100.00. Walmart has a Sony around 70.00-80.00.

Jesse

 

I think the Sony would be fine. Also check out www.newegg.com. They have a good price and customer reviews on each drive that can help you decide. Plus quick shipping.

 

If you order one from newegg, you may not want an "OEM" as these usually will not have the burning software. If you need the burning software get a retail version. The description will tell you if it has burning software. Newegg has great prices if you can wait a few days on shipping. I get my orders in 2 to 3 business days.

 

I understand the lack of software could be a hassle. Other than that what else would be needed? I have two drives (besides floppy). One is simply a cd-rom and the other is a cd burner. Would replacing one of these be the easiest route to go? Would all of the wiring already be there?

Thanks again,

Jesse

 

Yes. The power connection and the ide connector off of either CD drives will connect to the DVD burner. I would replace the drive that is CD-Rom only.

 

I have an Emerson DVD recorder from Wal-mart. It does good using Maxel -R DVD disks but it is almost impossible to record on a Memorex -R DVD disk.

 

I bought the Sony DRU-500ax when it was first introduced at Staples($350.00+tax),it lasted a good 6 months(very unreliable the 6 months that it actually worked as well).I replaced with a LITE-ON sohw-812s from Wal-Mart for $150.00 about 2 years ago. The Lite on has never failed me once and it even inspired me to get the LVW-5005 as a companion to this and my EWR-10d4.I use the 812s for burning MP3's and data(to play on my Philips DVP-642) and the Emerson is now used for recording in VR mode(dvd-rw),editing,then burning to the 5005.I found that after the firmware upgrade, the Emerson is really unrealiable with certain discs that it loved before,I bought a 15 pack spindle of RW Maxell disks that can be used for well past the life of the recorder.My old Memorex disc's(which the machine used to love before) are now rejected by the Emerson and if I try to add a recording to an old one it erases the whole disc.Get a Lite-On,that's the point to this whole story.

Also,anyone who has or knows where I can get the original EWR10d4 Firmware....please let me know.

 

Tony001 wrote this way back on page 5:

I am having this exact same problem, since I did not see any replies to his post I tried updating the firmware to see if that would fix it or maybe change it, and sure enough it changed it. When I try to record now, the counter on the front of the recorder counts up to 00:00:18 and then resets to zero and starts over. Then after a few minutes it stops recording and gives a recording error, it says cannot record on this disk and has the number E22 at the bottom of the error box.

 

With regard to some of the errors you may be seeing when using Maxell Discs.

Please look at your spindle to see if these were made in Taiwan or Japan. Japanese Maxells are Taiyo Yuden. These will work with no problem in your emerson. If you get the Taiwan the could be Ritek G04.

In otherwords, the codes on the Taiwan discs are no good in this unit.
The problem is is that it is very hard to find Maxell 4x made in Japan anymore. You really have to search for them.

So it may not be a problem with your unit. It could be the discs.

A year ago, all that was on the shelves were Japan Maxells. 90% of the time nowadays they are crappy Taiwans. Take a look. It should say where they were made near the UPC symbol on the back of the cakebox.

If you upgraded try Maxell 8x made in Japan. Also get a DVD Lens cleaner and that should help too.

 

The maxell's I am using are not on a spindle, they are a 10pack and each is in its own case, on the back of each case it says "Made in Japan", but this is not just happening with Maxell dvd's, I also tried a simdle of Fujifilm dvd's I have and get the same problem.

 

Hmmm?

Try the lens cleaner then.

I guess one of these days my unit is going to crap out too. However, I have such a huge stack of Maxells and other 4x media that works great in this unit.

Sorry you guys are having such bad probs with this machine.

I does and has worked great so far.

 

Hey dudes,I live in Japan and have seen these Maxell 4x Dvd-rs all over the place and cheap too,all made in Japan,the 8x are a little more expensive but are the way to go.I threw my cash away when I bought "Princo" and "Hi Disc" shite,all made in Taiwan and bought them in 50 pks (Dammit),they worked at first and now after a few months are unreadable on almost all players in my household.Maxells the way to go or TDK.
On the Emerson DVD-Recorder theme,I am looking at something similiar here and am wondering how much TV footage can you get on to a standard DVD-RW (4.7Gb)?
Cheers

 

Maxells are good, just make shure there MIJ.

 

A funny thing is, when i had this recorder hooked up to my basic cable connection, it seemed to record the shows or movies that were broadcast in "stereo" as "stereo" but i since moved it to the other room and hooked it up to the digital cable, which the actual cable is hooked directly into it,( but you cannot tune in the digital channels through your recorder because of the digital decoder you just set your dvd recorder to channel 3 and all the channles come through there when you flip through them and you cant change the channel to anything else while recording) but now since i have recorded on it, like on an encore channel something thats in digital stereo, it doesnt seem to be in stereo now,the sound is fine but just not what i really call a stereo sound,before for instance i recorded a episode of the joey show which is in stereo on the basic cable NBC and it came out stereo,
but i would think with digital cable and all, it would still be in stereo, i still in fact have a VCR hooked up as well its routed from the dvd recorder, and i think it has recorded in stereo with digital,its just that when the dvd recorder is recording there is no indicator that i can see that says its recieving any sort of stereo signal like the vcr.no big deal i guess was just wondering about it.

 

Hello, I signed up so that I could ask you guys to help me! I found this discussion, and it has already helped me, but I'm still having a problem. I just bought the EWR10D5 a few days ago. I am trying to transfer old family videos to DVD. I have purchased the correct DVD-R, thanks to your help! (I had to take the first ones back!)
I have an Emerson TV/VCR combo. I can record TV shows without a problem, but when I try to record the video tape I only get a black screen. I did the set up thingy - where you select "L1" (rear) and I've tried selecting both "S-Video In" and "Video In" (wasn't sure which one to do). I can't get anything on either setting. I do set the channel to L1, then hit "play" on the TV/VCR, then hit the REC/OTR red button on the DVD recorder. When I play it back, I just have a black screen. Am I missing a step? Any help will be so appreciated!

 

I've followed the instructions for the firmware upgrade. Burned a few CD's with Nero and the recorder keeps spitting them out. On the upgrade screen it says to insert disc...
The following part of the instructions seem a bit confusing. "use "ewr10d4.CUE" NOT the "ewr10d4.ISO" file. Then it says You should have a CUE file AND an ISO file.
My unzipped folder has three files; a text file with 0 KB, an Iso file with 2968 KB and a cue file with 1 KB....

Is there a step that I am missing? Im using Nero and a CD to burn.

Any help would be appreciated....Thanks



3. Using a CD Burning program such as Nero, select what ever function your Burning software uses to copy a "disk image" from a file to a disk. Then select the "ewr10d4.cue" file and burn the ISO image to a CD disk. Be sure to use the "ewr10d4.CUE" file and NOT the "ewr10d4.ISO" file. The "ewr10d4.cue" file contains track information necessary for the burning program to correctly burn the "disk image" to the CD. It may work by burning only the ISO file but then why risk it. The CUE file must have been included for a reason. You should have a CUE file AND an ISO file

**** NOTE: You should have a CUE file AND an ISO file. The ISO file contains the "disk image" data and the CUE file contains the information telling the burning program HOW to burn the ISO data to the CD. [The CUE file is simply a text file. You can actually open it up in Notepad or another text editor and read the information.] You CAN'T burn a "disk image" with ONLY a CUE file. IT WON'T WORK! ****

 

Hey folks,

I think I figured out why the TYs would not work in the Emerson. Since I installed the burner in my pc I have been using them and they burn at 16x! No wonder. They were advertised as 4x.

Jesse