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I am looking for a DVD recorder that has macrovision disabled and which ideally is also multiregion.

My understanding is that some DVD recorders are sold with macrovision disabled, one being the Tesco Technica DVDR2005. I`m also aware that there are some that can be hacked to make them macro-free

I don`t have alot to spend so I`m open to buying second hand. Basically I`m looking to spend about £50, possibly slightly higher.

I`ve been looking on ebay and there are some great deals there, but I don`t know whether any are macrovision free or can be made so without additional equipment. Speaking of which I know about Sonel but I`ve heard they`d don`t always give such good recordings?

In addition to the above features I am looking for decent reliable recorder. I was suprised to find that some DVD recorders with hard drives were in my price range, and have heard of some that are macrovision free. A HDD DVD recorder would certainly be nice but is by no means essential.

If anyone could help me here it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

This item was edited on Sunday, 23rd August 2009, 23:39

Surely you mean region free not macrovision free?

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Surely you mean region free not macrovision free?
the OP also requests multiregion.

macrovision removal is useful for erm, backing up dvd to vhs etc.

Ste.

Indeed. I`ve also heard that sometimes the macrovision protection can be incorrectly activated on non protected items, including home videos.

Aapprantly some DVD recorders only scan for macrovision for the first few seconds. Does anyone know of any recorders that this applies to?

This item was edited on Friday, 28th August 2009, 19:20

iirc, i`m pretty sure that most Lite-on dvd recorders were (or could be made easily) macro
free.

there used to be a forum... mcgillespie or something similar which was dedicated
to all things lite-on. i`m pretty sure that if you pm`d Sue Brown (she`s on this site if
you search), she`d be able to help as i think she was a moderator on the lite-on
website / forum.

hth

Ste.

Thanks for the advice. :)

As it happens after reading your message I did a search for some Lite-On recorders and found one that fitted my needs. It arrived this afternoon but I`ve haven`t had a chance to set it up yet.

This item was edited on Friday, 4th September 2009, 21:27