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Sony HD Recorder
i'm told by my dealer that Sony will have a dual tuner, freeview ,HD recorder available in September 2010.
Cost around £320. Has anyone any further info on the recorder. eddie |
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i'm told by my dealer that Sony will have a dual tuner, freeview ,HD recorder available in September 2010.
Cost around £320. Has anyone any further info on the recorder. eddie |
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panasonic do one - has Sony got one in the pipe line? Web site suggests not...
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My dealer was shown an early working unit during a dealer presentation at Gleneages in the Spring and was advised of a late 2010 release.
Since then they have been advised it is no longer going to be launched in the UK. eddie |
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Might be something they're buying in from elsewhere and re-badging - possibly from Samsung. Nigel Goodwin could probably elaborate.
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I've never heard anything about it - but like the Panasonic's it would be too crippled to be really useful.
What else would you want a Freeview HD recorder to do that Panasonic recorders currently can do? (i.e. record HD Freeview transmissions) If I remember rightly you don't sell Panasonic products, and you also appear to hate Guide+, so without any apparent personal experience of the product how can you post such a statement? |
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Nigel what is crippled about Panasonic recorders?
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What else would you want a Freeview HD recorder to do that Panasonic recorders currently can do? (i.e. record HD Freeview transmissions) ![]() Quote:
If I remember rightly you don't sell Panasonic products, and you also appear to hate Guide+, so without any apparent personal experience of the product how can you post such a statement? As for GuidePlus, I certainly do hate it (we get more calls about problems with it than anything else) - I'm amazed that Panasonic don't provide the proper EPG as well - and can only assume that Panasonic receive payment not to?. I also presume Sony receive money to put it on their products, but probably less than Panasonic as it's not exclusive (and doesn't appear to be the default any more). |
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It is about time Sony had such a recorder int heir range. However, when they do, I hope it's alot better than their current dismal range of DVD recorders. I gather these are actually manufactured by Panasonic for Sony though!
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It is about time Sony had such a recorder int heir range. However, when they do, I hope it's alot better than their current dismal range of DVD recorders. I gather these are actually manufactured by Panasonic for Sony though!
Sony did announce BluRay recorders a good few years back - and prices were even included in the Sony price lists, but they never appeared (and a good thing as the prices were in the thousands!). The problem of course is what can it record?, the only choice is a pitiful few channel on Freeview and Freesat - so it makes them much less useful than you would like. |
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[quote=Nigel Goodwin;46131469]You can only make one copy protected BluRay copy, and it won't play back in a normal BluRay player - that's strikes me as VERY crippled - and I don't expect any other recorders to be any different.
The copy protected programmes I have copied to blu-ray discs from ITV1 HD and C4 HD (the only ones to show a copy protection flag) work perfectly well in a PS3, Sony BDPS360, Toshiba BDX2100, Philips BDP3100 and in my computer Pioneer BDR205 - so hardly crippled. It may be that you are thinking about discs recorded in DR mode?? These will play back on the Panasonic, but possibly not on other players. The simple answer is to do what I do and convert the recording before transfer to blu-ray disc. |
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No, by Samsung - the previous range (from Pioneer) were great, but the current ones are pretty naff.
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Saw a model in Marks and Specers today - it's the HDR DC 100 and it was being sold for £279 - exactly £60 more than I paid for the same recorder 5 months ago in another shop.
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No, by Samsung - the previous range (from Pioneer) were great, but the current ones are pretty naff.
![]() The original DVB capable DVD recorders (in-house I think) were excellent (I wore mine out through overuse). The Pioneers (the replacement for the aforementioned) are very good, but the user interface on them is appalling compared to the original units (fortunately they make up for it in features if you can put up with the odd powering on/off related quirks) I've not used the Samsung produced ones, but from your comments if I have a need to replace my 890 I think I'll steer clear of the Sonys (and probably any Samsung branded ones) |
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Hmm, they seem to be going the wrong way
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I've not used the Samsung produced ones, but from your comments if I have a need to replace my 890 I think I'll steer clear of the Sonys (and probably any Samsung branded ones)
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Nigel what is crippled about Panasonic recorders?
What else would you want a Freeview HD recorder to do that Panasonic recorders currently can do? (i.e. record HD Freeview transmissions) If I remember rightly you don't sell Panasonic products, and you also appear to hate Guide+, so without any apparent personal experience of the product how can you post such a statement? |
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I have bought two Panasonics in the past two months,I have yet to hear of anyone who likes the Guide Plus EPG, in my opinion Panasonic TVs are excellent, but the guide plus EPG is total crap, I give it 0 out of ten.
OK the advert is a nuisance, but I have learnt to ignore it, timer recordings work perfectly (ok you have to pad ITV and C4 - but that's the same for the standard freeview epg - i have a humax foxT2 as well) and series link works fine - so what's wrong with guide+??? |
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As for GuidePlus, I certainly do hate it (we get more calls about problems with it than anything else) - I'm amazed that Panasonic don't provide the proper EPG as well - and can only assume that Panasonic receive payment not to?.
I also presume Sony receive money to put it on their products, but probably less than Panasonic as it's not exclusive (and doesn't appear to be the default any more). Do Panasonic not do their own EPG in any of their products? As for exclusive use of Guide+ it might be for reasons of cost. The cost of companies to develop and maintain their own EPG software - and judging by how many slow and buggy EPGs there are out there most manufacturers obviously don't want to invest resources in this side of product development. Also, as I understand it, the makers of Guide+ own several patents relating to the electronic programme guide which EPG makers have to pay a licence fee for. I believe Virgin Media challenged this last year and won but for a lot of manufacturers they may simply not consider it worth it to fight Rovi and instead considering cheaper simply to licence Guide+ Interestingly the Guide+ service on ITV1 will cease at the end of this month and will no longer work on the old Pioneer/Sony HDD recorders such as mine. I won't miss something I've never used but I'm sure there's going to be quite a few out there completely in the dark about this who will not be happy. |
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Hi, the Sony person who replied to a question I asked on their forum indicated it would be unlikely a BR recorder would be produced, but these look like they're almost here:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s....php?t=1427708 |
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Bought the 1000 Gig one a week or so ago. It's a touch more reliale than the TopUp TV 6300.
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Bought the 1000 Gig one a week or so ago. It's a touch more reliale than the TopUp TV 6300.
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Capacitors changed, excellent signal strength and quality, reformat the HDD every month or two and SWMBO said the DTI6300 is still unreliable.
We have had the Sony for around two or three weeks and no complaints from her!!!! Sorted!!! eddie |
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