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Electronics > DVD Recorders > Pioneer DVR-5100H
Pioneer DVR-5100H
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Pioneer, inventor of DVD-R and DVD-RW, presents the DVD DVR-5100H with the thinnest hard disk of the market: 69mm! It's the true product for recording without a purchase of soft. It is also the ideal tool for digital video archiving.
Features of the Pioneer DVR-5100H include:
- DVD Type - DVD Recorder
Playable Video Formats - DVD-R, VCD, DVD-RW, SVCD, DVD, HDD
Playable Audio Formats - CD, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3, WMA
Progressive Scan
Number of Discs - 1
Surround Sound - Virtual, Dolby Digital, DTS
Audio Outputs - Coaxial, Optical, RCA
Video Outputs - Component, S-Video, Composite
Remote Control - Multibrand
Dimension:
Depth - 13.43 in.
Height - 2.72 in.
Width - 16.54 in.
Weight - 11.24 lb.
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Reviewed by Richard on 08/06/2006
I bought a DVR-5100H in February 2004 from an on-line trader in Lincolnshire that has now ceased trading. It worked beautifully for 22 months but then refused to copy from its hard drive to blank media. I then used it for a short time as a back-up to another DVD recorder for time shift viewing of analogue broadcasts but the vision quality deteriorated and pictures woulf break up after 3 or 4 minutes of viewing.
I now use a SHARP machine which downloads an EPG from Sky Digital. It is not a flexible in use as the Pioneer was originally but the picture quality is superb and has three times the capacity. Moreover it was well under half the price of the Pioneer kit.
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Reviewed by Chris on 05/05/2006
Got the machine from Birmingham's Super Fi store (just down the road from the train station and Debenhams, the Bullring)1 year and a half a go and it blew my socks off. A machine that you could leave recording for 6 hours and edit it later. Suddenly, after 1 year, I encountered problems. When compiling a DVD, you select the recordings from HDD to fill the disc space on your blank DVD and high speed the transfer. You then finalize that DVD to play on any DVD player. The finalizing process shows you a table of contents that populate with thumbnail pictures of your recordings. PROBLEM 1: The machine failed to populate all the recordings on the DVD with thumbnails and then would not playback them. Thinking it was the quality of the DVD, I spent 4 months trying different things like buying different makes of DVD; tried several DVDs thinking I had the odd bad DVD in a batch; tried different copy speeds and suffered many failures (losing lots of blank DVDs and money). PROBLEM 2: Now suddenly I find the machine won't even read DVDs that were created on it. It simply spends about 3 minutes with "LOAD" on the front display and then ejects the disc! These discs play perfectly on any other DVD player (even the very cheapest). PROBLEM 3: The shop, Birmingham Super Fi, don't want to look after me and bear the cost of repair because the machine is now outside its 1 year warranty. Well what about my consumer rights (I thought the warranty was in addition to that). The manual talks about years of satisfactory performance. The machine was EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS! Clearly this one is likely to go to the small claims court because if the shop won't help (the machine is in mint condition - supremely cared for!) then I will want my money back or compensation. Shame because when it worked, boy did the machine work. I would not recommend this machine to my worst enemy if its prone to die on you after 12 months.
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