Combined Freeview HD and DVD recorder

A friend of mine has bought a Samsung DVD-SH893M/XEU which is most
disappointing. Apart from not recording when it all seems it should, I have
had it crash a few times where only responding to a cold boot by turning off
and back on again. It also doesn't have two Freeview tuners, so you can't
watch one prgram whilst watching another through the machine. I have since
seem reviews are rather dire.

Naturally this machine is going back.

Ideally she needs a twin tuner, DVD and HD recorder, but these seem like
hen's teeth, or cost their weight in gold.

Does anyone have some suggestions?

Fredxx wrote:
A friend of mine has bought a Samsung DVD-SH893M/XEU which is most
disappointing. Apart from not recording when it all seems it should, I have
had it crash a few times where only responding to a cold boot by turning off
and back on again. It also doesn't have two Freeview tuners, so you can't
watch one prgram whilst watching another through the machine. I have since
seem reviews are rather dire.

Naturally this machine is going back.

Ideally she needs a twin tuner, DVD and HD recorder, but these seem like
hen's teeth, or cost their weight in gold.

Does anyone have some suggestions?


The only one I know of with twin tuners and a DVD drive is the Panasonic
DMR-XW380.

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Adrian

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Fredxx wrote:
A friend of mine has bought a Samsung DVD-SH893M/XEU which is most
disappointing. Apart from not recording when it all seems it should, I
have had it crash a few times where only responding to a cold boot by
turning off and back on again. It also doesn't have two Freeview tuners,
so you can't watch one prgram whilst watching another through the
machine. I have since seem reviews are rather dire.

Naturally this machine is going back.

Ideally she needs a twin tuner, DVD and HD recorder, but these seem like
hen's teeth, or cost their weight in gold.

Does anyone have some suggestions?


The only one I know of with twin tuners and a DVD drive is the Panasonic
DMR-XW380.


Many thanks, but at £400 or so, this isn't realistically in anyone's budget.

Fredxx wrote:
A friend of mine has bought a Samsung DVD-SH893M/XEU which is most
disappointing. Apart from not recording when it all seems it should,
I have had it crash a few times where only responding to a cold boot
by turning off and back on again. It also doesn't have two Freeview
tuners, so you can't watch one prgram whilst watching another through
the machine. I have since seem reviews are rather dire.

Maybe I 've misunderstood exactly want you want to do, but any set-up
comprising a TV with Freeview capability and a single tuner HD/DVD should
allow you (a) to watch one programme live on the TV while recording another,
or (b) to watch one programme from the HD while recording another to it or
to DVD.

Naturally this machine is going back.

Ideally she needs a twin tuner, DVD and HD recorder, but these seem
like hen's teeth, or cost their weight in gold.

A twin tuner HD/DVD will make 3 tuners in all, which are only of use if you
want to do something involving 3 different programmes at the same time, or
record two different ones while you're out.

I suspect a single tuner HD/DVD would be more than adequate.

Does anyone have some suggestions?

Ideally she needs a twin tuner, DVD and HD recorder, but these seem
like hen's teeth, or cost their weight in gold.

Can something cost a weight?

Bill

In article , Adrian wrote:
Ideally she needs a twin tuner, DVD and HD recorder, but these seem like
hen's teeth, or cost their weight in gold.

Does anyone have some suggestions?


The only one I know of with twin tuners and a DVD drive is the Panasonic
DMR-XW380.

It looks good, but it costs more than two separate single-tuner PVRs, so if
simultaneous recording of two programmes is important, the sensible thing to
do would be to buy two separate single-tuner PVRs.

Rod.
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Bill Wright wrote:

Ideally she needs a twin tuner, DVD and HD recorder, but these seem
like hen's teeth, or cost their weight in gold.

Can something cost a weight?

"Their weight in gold" is an amount of gold, not a weight as such.

9. its, his, etc. weight in or of gold, silver, etc.: a quantity of
gold, silver, etc. of the same weight. Chiefly in hyperbolical
statements of value.

(OED)

So the question should be "can something cost some quantity of gold",
to which the answer is surely yes.

-- Richard

Richard Tobin wrote:
In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

Ideally she needs a twin tuner, DVD and HD recorder, but these seem
like hen's teeth, or cost their weight in gold.

Can something cost a weight?

"Their weight in gold" is an amount of gold, not a weight as such.

9. its, his, etc. weight in or of gold, silver, etc.: a quantity of
gold, silver, etc. of the same weight. Chiefly in hyperbolical
statements of value.

(OED)

So the question should be "can something cost some quantity of gold",
to which the answer is surely yes.

-- Richard
I agree that you could say 'worth its weight in gold', but unless you
use gold as a currency you really need to say 'worth the value of its
weight in gold at current rates.'

Bill

Bill Wright wrote:
Richard Tobin wrote:
In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

Ideally she needs a twin tuner, DVD and HD recorder, but these
seem like hen's teeth, or cost their weight in gold.

Can something cost a weight?

"Their weight in gold" is an amount of gold, not a weight as such.

9. its, his, etc. weight in or of gold, silver, etc.: a quantity
of gold, silver, etc. of the same weight. Chiefly in hyperbolical
statements of value.

(OED)

So the question should be "can something cost some quantity of
gold", to which the answer is surely yes.

-- Richard
I agree that you could say 'worth its weight in gold', but unless you
use gold as a currency you really need to say 'worth the value of its
weight in gold at current rates.'

Plus VAT at seveh-een an' alf percent for now, goes up in January Guv, let's
see now, that'll be fifty eigh' fausand free undred an foh'y foh pahnd and
firty five pence, call it fifty eigh' fausand free undred an foh'y for cash,
that OK wiv you squire, don' tell the tax man, eh?

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In article , Adrian
wrote:
Ideally she needs a twin tuner, DVD and HD recorder, but these seem
like
hen's teeth, or cost their weight in gold.

Does anyone have some suggestions?


The only one I know of with twin tuners and a DVD drive is the Panasonic
DMR-XW380.

It looks good, but it costs more than two separate single-tuner PVRs, so
if
simultaneous recording of two programmes is important, the sensible thing
to
do would be to buy two separate single-tuner PVRs.

Rod.

That is a logic conclusion, but a combined HD and DVD recorder does mean you
can transfer from one to the other, which isn't possible with separates.

I fee there's a very big gap in the market. An alternative is the Tesco
unit which has a HD and a network port, which might allow you to download
programs onto a PC. It would be possible to edit and burn onto a DVD, but
that's also £200.