I now have Two ILO DVDRHD04 and have had Five Others for frends. They all work perfect and NOT ONE has had to be taken back. I'm not trying to isuilt anyone but I find that the vast majority of problems can be blamed on operator error, myself included. There are some QUIRKS with the ILO, Like the button press. All recorders have some Quirks. A lot of those that took the 04 back and now have the 05 are going to wish they had kept the o4. The LiteON /ILO is a good machine. You can-not copy a commercial Disk to the HDD. No recorder will let you. If the ilo Is hacked, you can play the disk on a DVD player connected to the ILO and record. Anyone with an LiteOn/ilo should have the latest firmware updates [With Hack] available at the below site Firmware updates do not add the 3hr LP mode. The Hack at Guitarman site www.ss3f.com/ilo does. By the way, except for being mono, I find the tuner on the ilo to be as good as any VCR
JimLely I have not heard any Hum from the tuner. My wife has excellent hearing and she does not hear any. If you use the front jacks on the ILO you will get a Hum or Buzz. This is a known issue.
well my tuner sucked it made the pic on the tv show all messed up and some channels didnt even show. so i had to use the ilo to watch tv which got annoying so i just bought a signal amplifier from wal mart with two outs one goin to the tv and the other going to the ilo now they show almost perfectly. (just in case some people are having probs with there tunner)
The tuner on my ilo is awful. There are only about a dozen chanels that are good enough to even watch or record off of. I tried hooking it up through a VCR like whompus suggested. That solved the tuner problem, but the sound has a strange echo problem. Kind of like some cordles phones do. Also you have to leave the VCR on all the time, and can't use it for anything else when the ilo is in use. Another thing is, using the ilo through a VCR is kind of tricky to get everything hooked up and working right. I am not sure a lot of folks new to DVD's would have the patience to do this. I almost gave up and said to %#$@ with it before I finally got it to work that way. I am not sure it is worth all the trouble. If you don't record off of the TV, then this wouldn't be a problem, but that is the only thing that I use mine for.
motorcycl [whompus] has given you the correct hookup. The VCR WILL HAVE TO BE ON reguardless when using it with the ilo. If you wish to use the VCR while using the ILO seperatly this would require a different hookup and most likely a video/Audio switgh box I Have a VCR prior to the ILO and from the ILO to a TV as [whompus] has stated. This is a standard connection. My system is mono to begin with. I use the tuner in the VCR because Its first in line. I do not have any issue with the tuner in the ILO I can record from The VCR, TV, etc. with no problem. YOU must have an improper connection or a bad cable
MagicChef I don't know what type of service you have but it can't be satellite. If you need a signal amplifier In the RF line, the siginal level must be very low. If your service is cable? You need to call them. If its you own ant. OK, one tuner or another could make a differance. With such a service my Sony TV is Not as good as my Sanyo
LCSHG I don't think it is the cable. I have other TV"s, VCR's, DVD players, and another DVD recorder that I don't have any problem with. It is only the ilo that has a tuner problem with the cable system that I use. I thought tuner problems with the ilo was a problem that a lot of people had.
Most of the problems people where reporting with the tuner was the audio being mono. If you live in a hot spot of rf noise (like I do) you may be getting interference. Those amplifiers are ok if you already have one. I did not when my multisystem tv was getting outside rf noise. I found that most of those amplifier boxes are simply high pass filters (hpf) in to spliter (if has more then 1 out). I got some hpf that hooks on to the back of the unit and the cable hooks to it. I think I got them from radioshack. It looks like a long in line splicer but has male 1 end and female other end. Have had no problem after that.
motorcycl Well as I've said I do not have an issue with the Ilo tuner. I do not use it because of my hookup. I have satellite service and I have tried the ilo tuner on practectly every chanel [there is a lot] and the ILO tuner works fine. If you have solved your problems and the system is working ok for you, thats all that counts.
LCSHG yeah i have cable i think theres just a prob with the tuner on my tv cause our living room tv is hooked up to the same spliter under the house and has a vcr hooked up with pretty good reception and when i tried to hook up a vcr a while back to my tv it show'd pretty crappy. the way we have it hooked up is a 4 way splitter going to 2 tv's and a cable modem, and a 3 way splitter which goes to my tv and 2 others, i was thinking about getting a 8-way splitter from amazon.com u think that would help? also when i play xbox live or download anything (since i use cable modem) my tv gets i guess what you would call static lines, these white static lines that are as wide as the screen and movie downward through the screen. but when i take out the signal amplifier directly it shows reguraly. i was wonder ing if any one would know if i use a amplifer that is bidirectional like this one http://www.radioshack.com/product.a..._name=CTLG_003_010_001_000&product_id=15-2506 from radioshack would help. thanks, kevin (magic chef)
I got my Ilo Ro4 yesterday and had trouble with a fuzzy ch.6 on the tuner. After trying to use the "fine" tune from the menu to no avail, I decided to reverse the coax inputs and outputs, and that solved the problem. That is, on the back of the unit I connected the RF out to the TV, and RF in to the antenna. The picture in the instuction book shows the opposite. I then use the RCA jack #3 inputs from my Direct TV, and all is fine. The only thing that I don't like is that local channels pass through when the unit is off, but direct TV does not. I have to use the A/V out from the Ilo to only AV in on my TV to receive the Ilo output. The coax input on my TV only receives the antenna signal, even though I have the coax out from the Ilo to the coax in on the TV hooked up. Del
Ever since I hooked my ilo up using the VCR tuner, the sound has been kind of strange. Sort of like the, in a barrel sound that some cordless phones and cell phones have. But it was not a big problem. The last couple of days the sound has had a lot of static, sort of a frying sound that is so bad you can hardly understnd what the people talking on the TV are saying. Again this problem is only with the ilo, no problem with any of the others on the same cable system. Anyone else had any sound problems with ilo. Thanks....motorcycl
BTW, I just finished the update on my Ilo R04 by burning Guitarman's hack to a CDRW, placing it into the tray, and it updated automatically. I just had to follow directions. Very easy. Del
Does this need to be unziped before it is burned to disk? Or do you just download and copy to CD? Didn't someone say it was better to use CD-R, rather than CD-RW disk. Thanks Del wrote: BTW, I just finished the update on my Ilo R04 by burning Guitarman's hack to a CDRW, placing it into the tray, and it updated automatically. I just had to follow directions. Very easy.
If you are downloading for the R04, the files are not zipped. The only zipped file on my site are for the 5045. Yes, you can use a CD-RW but Yes, it's better to use a CD-R. You just need to make sure that there are no other files on the disc or it will not work. To help with noise in the tuner, there is an option in setup to fine tune each channel. Try making this adjustment on the channels that have the most noise. It may help some. Also, try placing the recorder away from other electronic and power sources. That could help eleviate some of the hum.
I discovered something that should have been obvious, but just never occurred to me at the time. If you set up the ilo to record several different programs, and are using a VCR for the tuner. It will record all of them off of the same channel. You can't record from several different channels. What ever channel the VCR is on, is the only one it will record from. I found this out the hard way. Missed some programs that I really wanted to record. Now a question. I can only get my ilo to set up to record five different programs. Is five all it has? If not, how do I find the others. When I press the Timer Record button it only shows five. I can't get it to go to another page, or what ever is next, if there is more. Thanks for listening
Guitarman, Do you know if there are going to be any more HD04's. I have never seen one in any of the area stores. I have been to a couple of larger towns lately, and they have a empty spot on the shelf for them, but none on hand. It looks like they would take the display sign down if they are not going to get any more. They haven't been listed on the Walmart web site in several months. Does any one know if there are any stores that still have them in the North Mississippi, West Tennessee, or North Alabama area? Thanks
