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Glad you got it set up alright. And I suppose yours plays pre-recorded DVDs fine as well? :p :(

They picked mine up yesterday, and should be back in a few days. So fingers crossed it will work when it gets back.

Daywalker-where did you get the DVR-530S from?Did it take long to be originally delivered?

Amazon?-did they collect it without charge or did you have to return by courier/post?

Suppliers I know of are:

SCAN
AMAZON
EBUYER

Scan are currently the cheapest (not including delivery).

Further update to my Ellion set up.
I connected and configured it for Progressive Scan to my JVC LCD TV.

A problem exists when configured for progressive scan, no MPEG or DivX playback is possible (the machine needs unplugging to reset it from a lock up!!).
Once congifured back to normal, no sound is present on MPEG (not sure about DivX) untill a DVD is played (which works and seems to reset things).
Think I`ll forward my findongs to Ellion, anybody got an email address that works??

I ordered it from www.simply.co.uk
It was 169 with next day delivery. It came with a warranty certificate in the box, and i phoned the tech support line on that which is a company called goodies enterprise, which i think must be the UK suppliers. They sent a courier to pick it up, and its coming back this coming tuesday again via courier, so it will have been away a week. Hopefully it will work properly this time. I know some places state that you have to pay to send the faulty items back, but believe me if that had have been the case i wouldnt have paid it, and they would have sent someone to pick it up, or there would have been hell to pay. Fortunately Goodies Enterprise seem a fairly good company, and it is very good customer service, although the music when they put you on hold, damn, its like a freaking musical jewellary box.

Goodies are the sales/warranty agents for Ellion

www.goodiesenterprise.me.uk/about.htm

Sounds like a great piece of kit. Do you know what MP3 playback is like and whether songs appear in folders etc. Does it support random playback?

DVR-530S manual can be downloaded at
www.elliondigital.com/DVR-530S%20GoldVision%20PAL(2scart)_fra,eng.pdf

page 15.... shows MP3 files displayed on screen....no random playback though(-although I stand to be corrected by someone who actually has an DVR-530S!)

Ellion DVR-530S now dispatched in 24 hours(rather than 1-2 weeks) at Amazon UK £159.99

www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00069YINU/ref=br_lf_ce_6/202-1582801-868302

It`s now the 7th best selling DVD Recorder at Amazon UK (up from 36th!)

This item was edited on Wednesday, 16th February 2005, 14:55

Just had ro return mine to SCAN.

DVDs are playing back with 2 faint vertical lines.
Also complained about the brightness of the RGB input and locking up when trying to play MPEG files whilst set up for progressive scan.

I was offered a new firmware disc (but I don`t think it will help), why is this not on the Ellon website for download?

I`ll post what happens with the return.