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hutchingsp
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I'm thinking of buying a standalone DVD recorder and would appreciate some advice on what to buy.
I have a Digibox connected to a TX28PL1 by RGB Scart, I also have a Philips DVD763SA connected to the passthru on the Digibox, and a regular VCR (which sees little use) connected to Scart2 on the TV.
I'd be looking to use it for timeshift the usual watch and delete stuff, and also for recording films to keep, not bothered about camcorders and stuff, might from time to time want to output via s-video from my PC and record that.
Being able to edit out adverts and stuff after the recording is made would be very useful.
I was thinking of going the PC/Capture card route but frankly it seems like too much hassle versus "press record".
It just seems to be the usual story.. so many models with no outstanding reason to buy one over the other so you spend ages digging around to uncover differences which in real-life you may never notice..
At the moment I'm looking at the Sony GX3 as it gets good reviews, looks good (helps), writes to +/- media and seems fairly well priced at approx £330 from empire.
I'm a little confused how these players handle deletions from discs, i.e say I have a disk with 3 x 1 hour programs on it and I delete the 1st and last one, presumably I can't now record a 2 hour program as there isn't a large enough contiguous chunk of space?
I'd be really grateful for any advice anyone could offer.
cheers,
Paul
I have a Digibox connected to a TX28PL1 by RGB Scart, I also have a Philips DVD763SA connected to the passthru on the Digibox, and a regular VCR (which sees little use) connected to Scart2 on the TV.
I'd be looking to use it for timeshift the usual watch and delete stuff, and also for recording films to keep, not bothered about camcorders and stuff, might from time to time want to output via s-video from my PC and record that.
Being able to edit out adverts and stuff after the recording is made would be very useful.
I was thinking of going the PC/Capture card route but frankly it seems like too much hassle versus "press record".
It just seems to be the usual story.. so many models with no outstanding reason to buy one over the other so you spend ages digging around to uncover differences which in real-life you may never notice..
At the moment I'm looking at the Sony GX3 as it gets good reviews, looks good (helps), writes to +/- media and seems fairly well priced at approx £330 from empire.
I'm a little confused how these players handle deletions from discs, i.e say I have a disk with 3 x 1 hour programs on it and I delete the 1st and last one, presumably I can't now record a 2 hour program as there isn't a large enough contiguous chunk of space?
I'd be really grateful for any advice anyone could offer.
cheers,
Paul