Hi motorcycl Sounds like you may be close to Corinth. Have you checked the super center there? I have a friend that got one from there 2 or 3 weeks ago.
Hi whompus, Yes I am in the Corinth area. I check the local Super Center several times a week. I have never seen any kind of DVD Recorder with a Hard Drive. I was suprised that the never had one. When the R05's first came out the had both the, 04 and 05 for a few weeks. Now they only have the R05. Last week I was in Florence and Tupel. They both still had the display sign up, but the shelf was empty. Florence only had the R05, and Tupelo only had the R04. They both had a Panasonic DVD-VCR combo Recorder for $298.00. This must be a new item, but it is not listed on the web site. I check it every day to see what is new. They have three new HUMAX TiVo's listed. Can these be used just as DVD Recorder, or do the only work with TiVo? Try to keep it on the straight and narrow....motorcycl
Cool. I grew up there myself. I moved away several years ago. Get back to visit several times a year. It will always be home. About the humax I am not sure about them. I would think the dvd part of it will work like any but the hard drive part my be for tivo only. If it is it should come with at least tivo basic. Maybe google it to see what others are saying about it.
Hi. Saw the messages asking about the lack of stock for ILO HD recorders in the stores. I learned from Walmart that they are completely out of stock, even their on-line store. They had misunderstood my question and thought that my shipment was lost. They told me they would not be able to send me another. Since it wasn't lost during shipment, I was very fortunate to get one of the last ones. When I called in to the ILO Tech people with a question, I asked them if the hard drive model was being replaced by an "05" model or if it is discontinued altogether. He didn't know. So, that's why the stores don't have the hard drive model anymore. I sure hope they aren't discontinuing it. I think it is excellent. My first one had problems, but this second one is great. Deb
Motorcycl, I saw a number of HD04s last Thursday at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Naples, Florida. The phone number is 239-455-1131. Maybe they'll ship it to your neighborhood store or directly to you. The manager is Adam Cohen Jim
Thanks Jim, I called them. The manager was not in, but I talked to someone else. He said if the local store had it in their system, they could send it to them, but I would have to pay the shipping. If it is not in the system they can't send it. Also they don't do credit cards over the phone, so they can't send it directly to me. I will check with the local store tomorrow. Thanks again.
Hi Everyone, Walmart has the ilo DVDHR04 back on the website, and it is their number one seller. Does the RH04 have the same crappy tuner as the R04, or does it have a better one. By the way the website has the R04 on close out for $95.00. They are probably going to drop it when they are all gone. Has anyone got both the R05 and the R04 that can do a comparison? Walmart has also added the Panasonic DMR-EH50S with 100GB Hard Drive $428.00
Gtrman, I bought a LiteOn LVW-5045, downloaded and installed your hacked firmware, and have had not one single problem! I have copied DVDs, VHS tapes, and off-the-air TV shows. I have edited out ads, divided files (haven't used "merge" yet, though I will after I have recorded all the episodes of the "Empire" mini-series), recorded edited files to DVD-R disks (Memorex) which play on the LiteOn, my computer, and three different makes of DVD players I have tried. All flawlessly. I have not tried any other DVD formats, because the -Rs seem to be the cheapest whenever I buy them. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Just wanted to say THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! Fred
motorcycl, Yes, it does have the same tuner but the editing features that come with the HD04 are more than worth it. The price on the LiteOn 5045 has also been coming down in price. I think it is $299.00 on Costco's website. May be worth the extra to get the +/- r/rw and 160gig HDD. dontaskme, Your welcome!!!
I agree the the editing features in the iLO are fantastic. I'm a newbie to DVD recording. In fact, I never even played a DVD before purchasing the ilo with hard drive. I find the editing to be extremely user friendly. I took a couple of shows I wanted to keep that I recorded and took out all the commercials and then merged together the edited parts as I went. It's easy! When I record a Pay-Per-View movie I purchase on the satellite, I record that directly to my hard drive, edit out the previews of other movies, then copy it to a DVD for my library. I wish it could record both plus and minus like the Lite-on, but I can't have everything. I bought it about 30 days ago when the price between the two was a bit greater. Besides, I just made sure that the regular DVD Player I bought for upstairs will play both Minus and Plus ... it does ... it's a Sony. Probably should have waited since the iLO without hard drive is now only $95! I like my iLO, though ... it's a keeper. And THANK YOU GUITRMAN for all your help. Deb
Thanks for the help. This reminded me of another question I have been meaning to ask about editing. If you record several things on a RW Disk, can you erase only part of it? Say you have two movies on a disk, and decide you don’t want to keep one of them. Is there a way to erase just one, and record something else in it’s place. The only thing I have been able to do is completely erase the disk and start over. I can’t find an option to erase part of a disk.
me a newb and i have a HUGE problem with ilo. whenever i have to prepare (delete disc) a dvd for burning, ilo only recognizes 1 out of every few dvds (usually 4) and the other 3 r then ruined. i tried burning onto those 3 on a laptop and it wouldnt work. help plz.
motorcycl You should be able higlight the show that you want to get rid of in the menu the hit the edit button and in that menu erase just that recording.
AT FIRST MY DVDR04 USED TO BE ABLE TO RECORD ON MOST DVD+R/RW. I'VE HAD IT SINCE THEY FIRST CAME OUT...SO IT'S PROBABLY OVER A YEAR. AT FIRST I WOULD USE VERY GENERIC 2.4X...WHEN I STARTED USING MEMOREX 8X, IT NO LONGER WANTED GENERIC DVD'S...NOW EVERYTHING COMES OUT AS INVALID DISC...IT TAKES SOMETIME TO PREPARING BEFORE IT FINALLY SAYS INVALID...IT'S ABLE TO PLAY ONLY COMMERCIAL DVD'S, ANY VCD AND MP3'S...BUT DOES NOT WANT TO RECORD TO ANYTHING...I'VE TRIED EVERY FIRMWARE...HACK AND OFFICIAL....I THINK MY PROBLEMS BEGAN WHEN I DOWNLOADED AND INSTALLED THE HACKED FIRMWARE...CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP...I'VE ALREADY DONE A SYSTEM RESTORE...AND TO THINK THAT I BOUGHT THIS RECORDER AT PREMIUM PRICE PLUS SHIPPING(WALMART SENT ME AN EMAIL WITH IT FOR $198...PAID A TOTAL OF LIKE $238)....THERE'S A DVD RECORDER AT SAMS CLUB WHERE YOU JUST ADD ANY IDE HARDDRIVE TO IT...DOES ANYBODY HAVE IT?
Alright -- I just got an ILO 04 (found it before I started looking for it) to replace the 05 that destroyed half my DVD+Rs before I destroyed IT. Now -- two or three questions/issues I need info on (please): 1. I noticed last night while recording that the frame rate seemed to drop for about 10 mins. Once I was done recording, I "sourced" through back to S-video and it stopped. What was THAT??? 2. My Cable/DVR remote is triggering the DVD recorder functions -- is anyone else having this happen? I know it's not a defect, I mean it's just gonna get REALLY irritating REALLY fast! 3. Can I not "name" a disc with this model??? I can name titles ON the disc but the 05 let me name the whole DVD too, which I liked. 4. Is the only way to get chapter stops on here to set it to automatically put them on between 5-30 mins? The 05 put stops on when you hit 'pause', which was great for cutting out commercials for TV shows, but the 04 isn't doing this. I just have a giant 22 minute file with no chapters. OK that was four questions, but that's it for now (I think) -- thanks in advance for any info. The 04 is still 10,000 times better than the 05, I can assure you! I do wish I'd finalized a few things before I returned the 05 (the 04 can't read them), but since the 05 started "baddisc"-ing me on every other DVD I put in it, I probably wouldn't have saved much...
GoofusKAC, 1. I noticed last night while recording that the frame rate seemed to drop for about 10 mins. Once I was done recording, I "sourced" through back to S-video and it stopped. What was THAT??? Sometimes the recorder will get a little confused. In a previous thread, you mentioned running the firmware updates on the recorder. After all updates, it is a good idea to go to the setup screen and do a system reset/restore. This relieves any bugs that might be creeping around after the updates are complete. 2. My Cable/DVR remote is triggering the DVD recorder functions -- is anyone else having this happen? I know it's not a defect, I mean it's just gonna get REALLY irritating REALLY fast! The ILO obviously shares some of the remote codes that your DVR has. No way around this one. 3. Can I not "name" a disc with this model??? I can name titles ON the disc but the 05 let me name the whole DVD too, which I liked. The disc can not be named on the R04. The recorder gives it a generic name when it formats it. 4. Is the only way to get chapter stops on here to set it to automatically put them on between 5-30 mins? The 05 put stops on when you hit 'pause', which was great for cutting out commercials for TV shows, but the 04 isn't doing this. I just have a giant 22 minute file with no chapters. Undocumented…..If you press the “Edit” button while recording, it will insert a chapter mark at that point. This is whether you have the auto chapter on or off. If you have it placing chapters every 5 minutes, you will still get those along with any you insert with the edit button. The best bet is if you are watching while recording, turn off the auto chapter feature and just press the edit button to add them where you want. You might try this while playing back a recording to see if it will insert them during playback. The disc can not be finalized though, until after all editing is done.
(bold)Disk Finalizing Questions.(/bold) Does the R04 have a auto finalize option? Most of the time when I go to finalize a disk it appears to already be finalized. It just says change disk. I thought at first that the disks were bad, and some are, but some of them will play. Some will even play in another player. If they are finalized, the ilo done it on it’s on. My understanding is they should not play in another player if they are not finalized. Anyone else had this problem? Or have any idea why it will not let me finalize the disk. Thanks
If you are using DVD+RW's, they do not need to be finalized. DVD+R's do. There are some rare occasions that a player will play an unfinalized +R disc but not very often. Also, if you are using DVD+RW's, your player may not be completely compatable for playing them. There is no auto-finalize option since there is no way the recorder could know if and when you want to close the disc.
