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Hello all,

I have just got the new Philips DVDR-1000 in the shop and am having a quick play about. 1st imprestions? Very good. Easy to set up and use and the picture looks fine on my 1st play about.

Just thought I`d let you know.

All the best,

Andrew.

Andrew,

Is this the format that is compatible with ALL drives? And isn`t it £1300? And won`t it be £200 in 12 months time? ;-)

LJ

Hello there, I only got it yesterday so I am still learning about it. But this is my understanding of it. Yes. It plays back on a normal DVD video player and on my DVD ROM drive It will even play on a DVD-RW (panasonic).

It is £1300 and yes the price will come down in time as more players are released as it did with DVD video, CD, PC, I could go on. On the other hand I can see there being some more expensive higher end products as with DVD video,..........

The DVD+RW discs are £20 at the moment but once again these will come down as with CD-R and CD-RW.

All in all it looks as if video has had it`s day.

DVD+RW is here and it works.

All the best,

Andrew.

This item was edited on Thursday, 6th September 2001, 11:05

Andrew are you rich? or mad or both!

None of the above, he`s got it in his shop. He`s hoping that someone rich or mad or both is going to walk in off the street and buy it. But not before he`s backed up his entire DVD collection :-)
Dave

back up? when the discs are £20 a throw? Cheaper to buy another copy of each!!!

Yes, but think of the `cache` (how DO you put acute accents on words??) involved when you can show your mates `my back-up dvd` of Terminator!
;-)

LJ

PS I`m not rich enough to afford things like `cache`!

RichardH, At the moment you are right (I was just teasing, Andrew), but once the prices drop it will become realistic and a real headache for the DVD industry.
Dave

ctrl+alt+e gives you é

lewjosh

caché

For accented characters, hold down ALT then type three digit code (é=130) using keypad then release ALT

Think accented characters start at ALT 128 and go up to 165.

HTH

SN

oops! Fecker beat me to it!

This item was edited on Thursday, 6th September 2001, 14:01