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2 Responses to “Daewoo DR8100P”

1. 1 Name Apr 15th, 2007 at 2:56 pm

   Having owned 3 different cheap DVD recorders (lite-on, Alba then daewoo) and all of them breaking within a year and being returned to amazon, sainsbury’s and amazon respectivly, i felt it was time to spend a little bit more and go for a hard drive recorder.

   This one seemed fairly good value and had a 160gb drive, compared with others which had an 80gb, but were more expensive, so i gave daewoo another chance, after being dissapointed with their DVD recorder.

   I was not dissapointed this time. This HDD/DVD recorder is fantastic - good quality, simple to use, loads of disc space (i dont use dvds anymore - the HDD is just so handy), simple to set up and even has a time shifting (pause/rewind live TV) function a la sky plus (i’m on ntl/virgin media). The remote control is also very clear and easy to use (many remotes these days are a scrambled mess of tiny buttons)

   the only down side is there is noticable fan noise while it is on (which is only a problem if watching a quiet part in a film, it is usually drowned out by TV at normal volume) and it can take a while to warm up (maybe 15-20 seconds) which is a little annoying when you want to record something straight away.

   other than that it is a great bit of kit, and well worth the money - usually you get what you pay for with electronics, but this is an acception - it’s a bargain that actually works well.

2. 2 Deynolds Apr 15th, 2007 at 2:56 pm

   Fantastic value for money, got some great features, very easy to set up and use. Very high quality recordings, piece of cake to turn in to a multi region player, just use google!

   Would recommend as a great entry level or mid range recorder.

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