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If anyone goes and gets the Aldi DVD recorder today can they post a quick review of the spec on here please.
As the website does not say if it has a tuner, rgb etc.

Thanks

I think they are having enough troubles at the moment without stopping to write a review. ;)




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This item was edited on Thursday, 2nd December 2004, 18:38

Yes, it does have an analogue TV tuner on board, and as far as I can tell, RGB through SCART.

Recording very good on highest quality (1 hour) and SP (2 hour). Three other recording modes. The lowest quality gives 6 hours per disk. I`ve only tried the first two so far.

Build quality is pretty solid. It looks nice enough. The display is a flourescent blue. The remote control is chunky but pretty comprehensive. It recorded fine on a Packard Bell DVD-RW disk. It has limited editing features for removing chapters and dividing them. The recording played fine on my Acer laptop, but I need to figure out how to capture video from the material I have recorded so that I can edit my clips. Anybody know what software will help me do this?

It is pretty well equipped with inputs and outputs (good to have s-vhs in and out and a spare s-vhs in connection on the front panel.

It also supports progressive scan for improved picture quality, but my TV doesn`t.

All I need now is a region hack and I`ll be quite satisfied.

By the way it is a Tevion MD 80032, manufactured by Medion.

does it record to dvd-rw too ?

Tragically it`s only +R & +R/W for recording, but two out of four ain`t bad.

not too bad just with you sayin you recorded to a dvd-rw i was goona try which are the best +rw discs to buy for this unit

Not manufactured by Medion, manufactured by Sampo for Medion ;)

If the US version of this recorder is anything to go by the only way to get region-free playback on this deck is through a firmware upgrade....and Medion don`t normally release them, more`s the pity :(

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