Page 1 of Relisys RDVDR250 DVD Recorder £99 at Richer Sounds

As of today instore only £99.95

Well spotted mate ;)

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Clayts, Moderator, DVD Reviewer
UK webmaster for Area 450 the independent Sampo/Maxent DVD site

Hi

Is this machine any good, I`m thinking of either this or the Liteon that does +/- disks.
Which would you recommend?

Regards

Mick

I bought one of these things from Staples last month when they were selling them off at 90quid. Ended up having to get a refund on it. The 1 and 2 hour recording modes didn`t seem to work. The image flickered badly, and the recordings wouldn`t play back at all on most other players I tried. The 3/4/6 hour modes worked fine. I`m not sure if I was just unlucky, or whether they`re all like that. It also had problems recording to some discs. I tried Imation - some worked some didn`t. Mirror unbranded seemed OK. Verbatim were the best. The `Mitsubishi` quid shop +RW didn`t work at all.

The device itself was OK, but it always felt as though it was going to fall to pieces at any moment! It also got very hot (no fan).

Anybody else had the 1 and 2 hour mode problem? Wouldn`t mind getting one of these again if I know they work OK.

Not the Relisys - I also returned mine to Staples. I was determined to like it, but the lack of a fan in such a slimline design led to serious overheating. It got too hot to place your hand on the right hand side, after a while the heat would spread to the left (where the processor and drive were situated), and this would introduce sound break up and eventually total loss of sound. A half hour program was OK but recording a film would portray this gradual breakdown as the heat increased. It also seems to use an odd disk format that was not recognised by some PC software. Playback also locked up on other players.