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hi,

just wondered if anyone could give me a knowledgable update on what`s either available now or realistically due soon ..?

seen one or two things mentioned on the forum, but nothing that recent ..

cheers ..! :)

AFAIK, there isn`t yet a DVD recorder on the market that can handle DixX or it`s variants at all

Ellion DVR-530S

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=148969

this looks interesting....

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20050108/ces06_11.jpg

Ellion DVR530S also at Amazon.co.uk


Reviewer says
"5 out of 5 stars Xvid Playback Compatable, January 17, 2005
Reviewer: A electronics & photo fan from SAFFRON WALDEN, ESSEX United Kingdom
Saw this Recorder on a German site displaying that it`s Mpeg 4 compatable and it arrived from Amazon last week.

I can confirm that this Recorder plays back Divx/xvid movies very well."

hi guys,

thanks for all your input. have to say, does look pretty cool - and £169.99 on Amazon is hard to beat (unless of course you go to eBay ;-).

cheers ..

Ellion DVR-530S reduced to £159.99 as of today

This item was edited on Tuesday, 25th January 2005, 22:55

Recently purchased the 530S and yes it can play most DivX (3.0, 5.0 & 5.1) and Xvid video. Have some problems with some I ripped with SuperDVD Creator - but other than that all downloads have worked flawlessly as with all of my newer rips with VirtualDub.

Some other good points:
Great Looks. That blue light stays on all the time :) and it`s really slim
Recording is dead easy
RGB in and out
Progressive Scan if I ever get the wife to agree to a projector
USB link to put pendrive with pics in works a treat (256MB Stick)
Recording quality is great at 1hr and 2hr modes (4 and 6 acceptable for some stuff)
very easy to make multiregion

Niggles:
Have yet to get codes for my one-for-all remote
DOA - but email to tech support idenitifed loose internal cable which was easily fixed

This item was edited on Wednesday, 26th January 2005, 08:54

RGB recording capable?? or do the RGB scarts just provide a RGB loop through with the recorder taking a composite signal?
Presumably has a NICAM tuner.

This recorder should be selling bucket loads!

-it is in France- where it`s available as the H&B DRX-430 (-the French love their DivX!)

Another good review here

www.dvdrecorderworld.com/news/123

AFAIK the tuner is nicam - but I don`t use it anyway as I use the SCART form SKY+ box.

As for RGB Recording capable - it certainly looks to be so - will do a more complete check this evening when I get home.

But if it is recording composite video - then it`s doing an amazing job as there is little difference between the RGB output from playback and S-Video from SKY+.

-RikD.