DVD Recorders and regions

Hello,

I have a friend who needs some help/advice in choosing a home DVD recorder.

He wants to know if they are region free like players or not (I haven't seen
any region free ones).

Also, he is looking at the JVC DR-MH30 or the Tosh RD-X530 and wants to be
able to connect his video recorder and record old NTSC TV programmes from
the USA on to DVD's.

Is it possible or should I tell him to forget it? TBH I don't know why he
would want them on DVD its not like the quality is going to get any better


Cheers,

Andy

AM-WSD wrote:

He wants to know if they are region free like players or not (I
haven't seen any region free ones).

Take a look at Multiregion Magic:

http://homepages.force9.net/grahamas...indexhome.html

They do multi-region DVD recorders from Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, &
Sony.

I bought a Pioneer 3100 from them for £299 and it's been excellent and
will record in PAL, PAL60, NTSC and SECAM.

There are others doing similar deals.

Regards

Mark

Thanks for that...

So will it copy an NTSC video tape if the video recorder is plugged into the
DVD Recorder? And if so does it convert to PAL or leave it as NTSC?

Do they have hard disks?


"Mark A" wrote in message
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AM-WSD wrote:

He wants to know if they are region free like players or not (I
haven't seen any region free ones).

Take a look at Multiregion Magic:

http://homepages.force9.net/grahamas...indexhome.html

They do multi-region DVD recorders from Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, &
Sony.

I bought a Pioneer 3100 from them for £299 and it's been excellent and
will record in PAL, PAL60, NTSC and SECAM.

There are others doing similar deals.

Regards

Mark

AM-WSD wrote:

So will it copy an NTSC video tape if the video recorder is plugged
into the DVD Recorder?

Yes, providing the VHS deck can output pure NTSC (most can't, most give
out a hybrid format called PAL60 that UK TVs can handle).

And if so does it convert to PAL or leave it as NTSC?

It will leave it as it finds it, be it PAL or NTSC. No recorder will
transcode from NTSC to PAL or vice versa. However, you could bung a
digital standards convertor between the video player and the DVD
recorder. This would convert the PAL60 or NTSC to pure PAL. They cost
about £200 upwards though.

Do they have hard disks?

Some do. Panasonic, Philips, Sony and Pioneer all make hard drive
versions of their players, but they tend to cost almost double what the
non-hard drive models cost.

Regards

Mark

Thanks Mark,

I will pass the info on. Cheers

"Mark A" wrote in message
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AM-WSD wrote:

So will it copy an NTSC video tape if the video recorder is plugged
into the DVD Recorder?

Yes, providing the VHS deck can output pure NTSC (most can't, most give
out a hybrid format called PAL60 that UK TVs can handle).

And if so does it convert to PAL or leave it as NTSC?

It will leave it as it finds it, be it PAL or NTSC. No recorder will
transcode from NTSC to PAL or vice versa. However, you could bung a
digital standards convertor between the video player and the DVD
recorder. This would convert the PAL60 or NTSC to pure PAL. They cost
about £200 upwards though.

Do they have hard disks?

Some do. Panasonic, Philips, Sony and Pioneer all make hard drive
versions of their players, but they tend to cost almost double what the
non-hard drive models cost.

Regards

Mark