Which DVD recorder?

[Monsieur]

Looked on amazon, comet et al but am baffled by the choice

I'm after a DVD recorder which will record from my virgin+ box. Nothing fancy - just a good, dependable machine.
Price? less than £100 would be good!
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance

 

[Mandylicious]

Saw them for sale in our local Tesco's recently, around £70.00 if I remember correctly.

 

[Monsieur]

This is where I get confused - do all DVD recorders record from virgin+ boxes? I've read somewhere that some are analogue only

 

[SOAA]

So long as the virgin+ box has a scart output then the DVD recorder should be fine.
The only thing you may not be able to record with it is any pay-per-view programmes such as box office movies (assuming virgin offer them?)

 

[Zoomboxer]

Might be worth considering a DVD recorder with built-in Freeview as well - that way you can record Freeview progs.

 

[(RIP) Proff]

my twopennorth

I use a HUMAX PVR 9200 it records to a 160 gig HDrive and can then be used to write DVD's via your pc...will also do whole series with a one push system
It also has 2 tuners [ record 1 watch 1, record 2 and watch a previously recorded prog, all at same time ] and rave reviews, not cheap, but 2 year Guarantee and can be got for around £150 instead of £220 RRP

I do have a stand alone DVD recorder as well , but it is NEVER used now [last 15 months ]

Also just bought for 19.99 a Nikkai twin tuner barebones system, installed a second hand 40 gig hd just to try it [ total cost so far £29 inc postage ]
It's very, very good so far, further reports will follow

 

[BigAlMacMac]

I think Sky+ is brilliant but have often wondered if I can buy a Hard Disk DVD recorder that offers the same easy of use functionality of the SKY+ box plus be able to burn to DVD.

Any ideas?

I live in the sticks with no terrestrial digital signal so have to pay Sky rediculous amounts every month, which make me think I am stuck with Sky plus

 

[exeter_lad]

I live in the sticks with no terrestial TV as well. If you have a sky dish and a basic sky box, you can pay sky £20 and receive a large number of channels without paying silly prices. Depends whether you want the sports channels and E4. When I paid the £20 it was for 3 years (supposedly). My neighbour has just done the same (bought a dish and box - non -sky from B&Q) and he was told that the £20 was for life.

I also have an LG 250gb hard drive dvd recorder. Easy enough to use. Can record on to DVD or HDD while playing back on the other. Has DV in to record off camcorder and two memory card slots to copy photos. Suits me and the family just fine.