Page 1 of Yamada DVR-8400X DVD Recorder /DIVX Player £99.99 or less :)

Maplins are selling the amazing Yamada DVR-8400X DVD recorder for £99.99 including postage.

If you subscribe to their newsletter you can get another £10 OFF using the voucher codes, and get it for UNDER £91.00 (if you make total purchase price over £100, so just buy a connector for £0.49 for example to bring total price to over £100.

This has to be better than the supermarket DVD Recorders, as it also plays DIVX movies.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=46214&doy=9m8

• Massively compatible, Multi-region DVD recorder and DivX Player
• Recordable disk formats - DVD+RW, DVD+R
• Format compatibility: MPEG1, MPEG-2, MPEG4, DivX 3.11, DivX 4.x, DivX 5.x, Xvid, MP3, WMA, PCM, JPEG & AVI
• DVD Recorder time capacity - 4.7 GB (12 cm single-sided) Up to 360 minutes (6 Hours)
• Front mounted DV link digital input, for recording directly from camcorders
• Front mounted USB port for direct file transfer from PC mobile storage device
• Selectable NTSC or PAL video system output
• Connections: SCART, Video CVBS, S-Video, audio L/R output, 5.1 coaxial audio output, Digital audio output (optical & coaxial), USB & DV link digital input

poor unit i couldnt give it enough praise at the start but 1 week in after using it changed that sent it back to maplins for a refund also the father in law sent his back to special reserve for a refund.Very noisey unit from the internal workings tacky remote that you need to be sat right over the unit for it to work and the clock gains time too its cheap and looks nice but id look about first ;)

Thanks for the original post. My MICO Espejo 311R (8months old) died without warning on Friday so this was perfect timing for a refund (£99) from Sainsbugs and pop to MAPLINS to get this little fella (£90 with voucher). I did take note of the comments regarding the noise of the unit and have to agree that it is noisier than most, however we have the TV loud in our house, so we can hear it (granted though it may be slightly annoying on quiet scary creepy films). Besides the DIVX playback the biggest boon for me was finding that UNLIKE the MICO this unit does not recognise Macrovision, which means I have been able to put all my old fave videos onto dvd.
One point to note though about the USB front port, it will only play JPG, WMA & MP3. I plugged a portable hard drive with divx files on it and it wouldn`t play them.
All in all very happy so far .....but I remain cautious as this is exactly what the last fella said !