Reliable DVD recorder?

[DavidHale]

Can anyone reccomend me a RELIABLE DVD recorder? I'm fecked off with my partner buying shitty cheap ones that muggins here has to faff about with to try to get them to work, then get the blame when they decide to stop working. What I'm looking for is something that is SIMPLE to use (there are women in this house that use them), not many buttons and records telly programs. I DON'T want to be feckin about with HD/HDMI?Wim wam burger functions or shit. I want to record telly programs and that's it. I want to stick a disk in and not be pissing about with whether or not its plus or minus or shite, and when I take it out it works in another dvd player, not feck about finalising or finishing or whatever the fuk it is I have to do. It's only feckin corrie that they want to record, anyway FFS!!

Can you tell I'm stressed about this? I get so much feckin greif over feckin telly programs!! FFS! I think this should be in the rant section... Fuc em. Why can't they read a fukin book.

 

[ianf]

You want a hard disc recorder, let the birds fill it up with shite, and you can then either delete it on sunday or back it up to a dvd of your choice :0

Sony/Samsung make these.

Or pay sky and get sky(hd)+ depending on how crap your telly is.

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

i think you'll expect this answer....

there isn't one that does all that

 

[DavidHale]

You want a hard disc recorder, let the birds fill it up with shite, and you can then either delete it on sunday or back it up to a dvd of your choice :0

Sony/Samsung make these.

Or pay sky and get sky(hd)+ depending on how crap your telly is.

I wish it were that simple. Stepdaughter no 1 records it in her room rolleyes then Shaz want's to watch it on the telly downstairs... but they never work.

Can you still get decent VHS video recorders? That's all we want. No toys or tricks or shite, just record a telly program and watch it later. Simple....

I dunno, I give up.... Is there a gun-to-the-head smilie?

 

[DavidHale]

i think you'll expect this answer....

there isn't one that does all that

I was expecting that.... Ta anyway.

 

[ianf]

VHS - dead as a dodo apparently. Nobody making tapes any more. Get 2 identical cheap sonysamsung 100gb+dvd models and let them swap discs is the only obvious solution.

Life's to short to be worrying about who recorded QVC etc. and on what format.

 

[DavidHale]

Life's to short to be worrying about who recorded QVC etc. and on what format.

I know that. You know that. But apparently to the various females in this house it's a life-or-death issue.

 

[ianf]

I've only just learnt it too. I have 2 sky+ boxes now, one for me, one for her to fill with TLC films to waste the weekend watching.

 

[DavidHale]

Or pay sky and get sky(hd)+ depending on how crap your telly is.

I've just refurbished the house. I've re-wired, and embedded co-ax cables to all the rooms feeding off of a fancy booster box to give a perfect signal wherever you are in the house. Then plastered and decorated over the top. And Sky HD+ bollox needs FOUR feckin co-ax cables to each room, and a box that costs money. So no, they ain't gettin sky.

 

[ianf]

cat5/6 in the walls? You can send hdmi / composite vid over that.

Anyway, best to ignore it or you'll waste a weekend fixing a pointless problem

 

[DavidHale]

cat5/6 in the walls? You can send hdmi / composite vid over that.

Yeah, cat 5 to all rooms as well via a router. (So I can turn off t'internet access until they're 16). I don't think I'll go down the composite vid route at this stage.

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

better not tell you Sky 3D is on it's way then

 

[DavidHale]

No, don't.

Unless it runs via a single co-ax cable.

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

No, don't.

Unless it runs via a single co-ax cable.

need new TV and Glasses apparently

 

[(RIP) Proff]

No DVD recorder we have had was any bloody good,
We have had for last 3 years a Humax 9200t and it's bloody brilliant
Now have a Humax 8000 in the bedroom.
Both can be d/l'd to 'pooter for writing to DVD's via nero
Just upgraded 9200 to 320 gigs and putting it's original 160 gig HD into 8000 to replace the 80gig original...

Don't be swayed by the newer 9300 as it's nowhere near as good....
expect to pay up to £100 for a second hand 9200 off fleabay.


FYI 9200 is 2 tuner model record 2 channels whilst watching something you recorded earlier...
8000 is single tuner only so you can't watch another channel whilst recording unless you still got analogue

Both have series link so you record whole season with one click

 

[Gonzo]

No DVD recorder we have had was any bloody good,
We have had for last 3 years a Humax 9200t and it's bloody brilliant
Now have a Humax 8000 in the bedroom.
Both can be d/l'd to 'pooter for writing to DVD's via nero
Just upgraded 9200 to 320 gigs and putting it's original 160 gig HD into 8000 to replace the 80gig original...

Don't be swayed by the newer 9300 as it's nowhere near as good....
expect to pay up to £100 for a second hand 9200 off fleabay.


FYI 9200 is 2 tuner model record 2 channels whilst watching something you recorded earlier...
8000 is single tuner only so you can't watch another channel whilst recording unless you still got analogue

Both have series link so you record whole season with one click

Proff

I've got the Humax 9200 (effin brilliant as I'm too tight to pay for Sky).

1) How did you upgrade the HD?
2) How do you switch on the series link? Tried and tried and tried, no luck.

Cheers

 

[(RIP) Proff]

Go to menu, then installation and click updates, also leave updates on "auto"
sometimes takes a week for D/L to become available again...

As soon as warranty expired, I got a Seagate 320 gig [ it MUST end in ACE ]HD
and in it went
I'm now in process of changing to SATA link as PATA ace H/D's are almost impossible to find. Then I'll upgrade to a 750 SATA HD [ending in SCE] and have lots more space only thing is, it must be switchable to 1.5 gigs ps as 3 gig ps is too fast>>
I'd recommend you join >>
http://www.hummy.org.uk/forums/

Top blokes and easy on beginners

Sorry David

 

[Gonzo]

Cheers Proff, will take a look. For some reason I'm not getting updates even though It's set to auto so will try and troubleshoot.