What? No one made the switch?
Can't believe no one's made this journey who could share some experiences. I know nothing about this technology and would welcome greatly any tips to help me make a short list. Thanks in advance.
Make sure it has a hard drive
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Originally Posted by StanleyMuso
My old VCR is getting too unreliable - sound and picture quality is getting worse, even with new tapes. I'm thinking of replacing with a recording DVD, perhaps with hard disk.
What is your experience with these? Are they reliable? Are some brands better than others?
As usual, I look forward to any advice. Thanks in advance.
I have a Panasonic unit with a hard drive, and I record everything so that I can skip through the commercials (the remote has a 30 sec Commercial Skip button that is worth evrey penny of the unit). The hard drive allows me to record and erase w/o wasting disks, too; if I like something I burn it to DVD, but I seldom do. The only problem with Panasonic is that they are still trying to push their DVD-RAM technology that nobody else uses anymore so DVD-RW disks won't work on my player, only DVD-R (newer models may not have this problem, though, mine is a couple of years old). But I pay no Tivo fees with this unit and watching pre-recorded commercial TV has never been so enjoyable.
P.S. I wouldn't worry much about Blue-Ray, the industry will be fighting that standards battle for years to come. Instead, I would worry about HDTV encryption that is being rammed down our throats. Apparently we won't be able to skip commercials and pre-recording shows may include a "recording fee" in the future. If that happens I will stop watching commercial TV altogether.