ILO DVDR05 Anyone bought one yet???

Interesting. Originally, when I bought mine, it indicated it wouldn't work with the iLo DVDR04. Since mine is a DVDR05, I was fine.

I see *now* they changed their site.

Nonetheless, my DVDR05 and this device get along fine. The "copy block" does not happen on my machine.

I haven't tried it since I upgraded firmware though.

 

When you try it would you let me know?

 

Hey guys, I got a quick question to ask. I have a dvdr04 that I had to send in for repair back in Dec. I kept in contact with Ilo until the first week in march when they told me that the recorder never made it to the plant. By that time I had thrown away my records from the post office. After three diffrent calls to Ilo support and a bit of vulgar language they said they were unable to help. So i went to E-bay and found a dvd05 MU1 for $50.00. Guess what came in the mail yesterday. Yep dvd04 I am Pi!*ed. Is this recorder worth selling or should I just chunk it. The paperwork with it says it has been repaired. Help!!

 

Isn't the o4 the best of the iLO series?

 

i have a ilo dvdr05/mu and have had nothing but problems with it stopping and freezing during playback. Upgraded the firmware from their site -- but i still cannot get thru an hour straight playback without a freeze up and then it wont even recognize any disc - goes to stop - or asks me to format the disc. This happens both with rented dvds and with dvds that i have recorded. It is NOT the discs, since they play fine on the computer and on my other dvd player.
It seems like after it runs for 20 mins. or so it dies, till it sits overnight and then will play for 20-30 min. only.

I have only used it to record a couple of times, and i did not have a problem there-- playback only.

If i can find my receipt -- itll be back to walmart, and ill buy one made in JAPAN not CHINA.

 

Well you get what you pay for. I guess theres a reason the panasonic DVD recorders are $300.

 

I still haven't had a single problem with it, so....

 

Hey, I got the New RO5MU1 it was working great until a week ago , i got one for myself in Dec of last year, and opened it in Feb. I made about 40 DVD and then it started acting up. It's hard to find support for the models because Wal-mart no longer sells them. The DVD makes a scraching noise when i try to format a new disk but the CD/Music works fine.I can't get in touch with anyone from the company to get it fixed or return the product. I'll keep everyone posted on the results.

 

I havent posted in about 6 or 8 months, but I thought I should give everyone a mention on how well my 05zu is running...

Almost 2 years later, and it is still working fine, with exception to what I have posted about in the past (DVD brand compatibility). Also found out my mother bought an 05zu as well and is reporting nothing but success with it, after ditching her high end Emerson dvd recorder, that she payed 300.00 for.... It wouldnt even finalize.... sure it would go through the really long 30 min finalizing process just to kick it out.... she is happy as am i, so that is 2 people in the same family with working 05zu's, HUH isnt that funny.

 

I bought one a few months ago and my room mate moved out and i was using a tv w/o AV jacks for about a month

well i finally got back home and got my bigger and newer TV from home and hooked the Ilo up to it, well it works fine, except i cant format discs!!! it gets to 99% and just quits, it doesnt lock up because the hour glass thing is still moving it just never formats and know its a problem because i left it alone for two days to see if it would ever format and it didnt ater over 48 hours, just stayed on 99%

the only way i can use it then is to unplug the unit and it asks me to format again i say no and it ejects the disc

any ideas?

 

I had tht happen with some Sony Highspeed discs. I think they were Sony DVD+RW x16, Take a look at what your discs are, and i bet they were an unsupported brand or they were highspeed..... I might be wrong but htat has been my experience... Good Luck.

 

ill try that, thanks, they arent sony im unsure of what brand they are but they dont say sony anywhere so

 

They have a whole list of brands that dont work. They told me to get the new firmware so I did......That fixed it...for about 4 recordings....now it's back to what it was. I keep wanting to contact them but I jsut don't want to mess with it. They won't answer your questions over the email and they have screwy telephone hours. I was thinking of just trashing it and buying a Panasonic that actually works.

 

I wont argue with you on that one..... I contacted them about a compatibility list, and they sent one to me, I dont hav eit anymore, but I can tell you that Sony was on the list of unsupported discs..... funny enough they didnt even recommend their own brand of discs..... I thought that was strange.....

But I have marginal success with:

Maxell DVD+RW 4x and some 8x discs.... Never use +R as I have a very low success rate with them.

also Imation DVD+RW 4x..... again never +R... the only problem with the +RW is that I find I have to do a quick 1 min test recording to see if it gets any skips or what ever, sometimes reformatting many times will get you a good recording....

It is a hit or miss with the ILO recorder, but overall, if I do these things I get good recordings and am happy with my results....

Buy what ever brand recorder you want but I think you are going to run into similar issues with any brand, as I said in my previous post about 2 weeks ago..... My mother had a $300 Emerson recorder that just wouldnt work.... she bought the ILO and has nothing but good luck with it..... But again if the ILo doesnt work for you, do what you need to do.... but mine seems to work fine...

Even if my ILO craps out tomorrow, it was well worth the 100.00 price tag, and I would never consider it a waste of money especially since I got nearly 2 years of use out of it.... in fact if that happened I would run right out and buy another one......

 

I liked the price of the ILO, the only reason I said that the Panasonic would work is because I own one. I have the ILO as a second one. The panasonic was $450, and has worked very well, but for $100 the ILO is a good deal, when it works.

 

No reason to explain.... you do what you have to do.... if one works better for you than the other, go with it.

I will try to find that compatibility list for everyone to check out....

 

"The update was also created to help with incompatibility issues with
various disc manufacturers.
In particular, our customers were experiencing problems formatting and
finalizing with Phillips, Maxell, TDK, Memorex brand +R.
Some disc brands that we have received positive reports about are Fujifilm,
Verbatim, Sony, Ridata, Ritek."


Thats what the guy sent me

 

Did it do this before or only after you got your new tv.

Are you using the right media like if you were using one brand and you switched go bck too it or the speed of the disk is too fast and the ilo does know the new media 8X on up.

 

I tried emailing cust. Support and got a post master unable to deliver message notification......I tried again and the same thing happened, so I called the number in the manual.....the operator came on and said that the call couldnt go through. Does ILO exist any more? Walmart quit selling the DVD recorders.....I am quite mad that I cannot call these people...

 

The Web sites are still there. You can see if you can contact them through a site or if there is different contact info on a site.

DVDR05 - www.iloservice.com

DVDR04 - www.ilohelp.com


No idea why there are different sites for the different models.

James