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Lite-On LVW-5006 DVD Recorder £66.99
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not a machine I would buy, rather pay the extra & get a Panny, but might do someone a favour. Free delivery as well :)

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if you want it, get a move on!

This item was edited on Tuesday, 22nd August 2006, 21:19

Hello,
I don`t have any experience with Savastore but I do have one of these machines, bought about a year or so ago for about double the price.

They usually have a manufacturers 3 year warrantly i.e. usually means one year with the shop and two with the manufacture - keep the receipt and check that what I say still holds.

The machine is fine, records on everything shiny except dvd dual layer and dvd ram.

Runs on a standard pc dvd recorder so the drive can be replaced when it eventually goes after the warranty, if you want to keep on using it, and if the drives haven`t moved on too much.

If this is the type of machine you are looking for I would not hesitate to recommend it at this price - at the least it`s a cheap option to transfer video camera footage direct to disk.

(you can remove the macro-vision protection as well, so good for transferring your favourite old vhs tapes to dvd)

(It may take me some time to reply to posts, I don`t get online often)

Now up to £70.49. Was tempted, especially after reading some of the positive reviews - on the seller`s website. However, did find some negative reviews elsewhere (link below) which convinced me to wait until I can get a decent HD/DVD recorder.

http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews81252.html

Vincent0,
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you can remove the macro-vision protection as well, so good for transferring your favourite old vhs tapes to dvd do you do this via a scart lead or code? gave up trying to work it out. Thanks.

Niteowl
p.s. touch wood, I`ve had a trouble free LVW dvd recorder, takes everything I throw at it (had it nearly 2 years when spotted offer on this forum).

i have had 2 lite-on DVD recorders and both where dead unrealiable with recording onto disk, mostly from mini DV, but also they seem to knacker up dvd-rw`s with regular occurance.

I have posted this few times... but.... a good friend of mine is an electronics engineer... he won`t touch Liteon with a barge pole.....

They make superb laser.... infact many of the big names use Liteon lasers..... but they make terrible electronics... hence a loy of people have problems with Liteon products.....

Not to say you`ll get a duff one.... Suppose you get what you pay for........

thanks to the OP,I bought one.No real problems so far but DVDs created on the lite-on (in DVD+RW format,with front av as the source), don`t play back well on my other 2 DVD machines,the picture is nasty(colour blocky).This is not a data error,but an incompatibility issue,& it means I need to copy them on the PC(which reads them no problem),then burn them again if I want them to be compliant.This works fine & they play no problem.
I have transfered some old VHS tapes to DVD & I am VERY impressed with the quality; no loss at all that I can see.

I`ve used DVD Shrink to edit my home made DVDs,but anyone else interested in doing a similar thing,be aware that DVD Shrink & Nero won`t want to know your Lite-On created DVDs if there is more than one program on the menu.You will get an "unrecognized menu structure " error message when you try to edit or copy them.
So I just burn the DVD on the Lite-On as one program,then use DVD Shrink to split it down,using the "select start & end frames" thingy.

Initially I was occasionally getting a jumpy picture,whether recording or just viewing whatever source it was set to,but a firmware upgrade seems to have fixed things in that regard.
The only bit I can`t comment on as I haven`t tested it yet,is the DV imput.

Hello niteowl,

It`s done via a manufacturer`s software upgrade which is burnt to disk, this usually has new dvd disk information which is needed apparently to maintain compatability with new blanks and occasionally to updgrade the operating system, depending on which model you have.

You can find a lot of information, and the details you`re lookig for as well as help at www.liteonusers.org.uk they`re very helpful and it`s a friendly place, like this forum (I`m being serious !! Some forums are terrible).

(It may take me some time to reply to posts, I don`t get online often)