Product Review
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This unit performs reasonably well. Here are the main downsides:
1. The unit has the ability to record all tracks from a DVD to the HD, as indicated on p.53 of the manual. This would be useful for say dubbing a home movie DVD to HD so you could re-edit or reburn a different disk with different tracks for other family members. If you have say 40 short clips to dub, this feature would be great since you could start it and let it copy all 40 tracks ("titles" in DVD lingo). Unfortunately it doesn't work. Well, it works, but only if the DVD you want to dub from is writable (has room left to record and is not finalized), which will not often be the case. This makes more sense if you are trying to dub from the HD to the DVD. But from DVD to HD? Why is this necessary? The company won't say. They just say it's just not designed to do that even though the manual says otherwise. So instead you have to do an analog copy from another DVD player, then break up the single full disk play into individual tracks - very time consuming. Or you could use the one-at-a-time dubbing feature, 40 times. Also time consuming.
2. When you finalize a disk (DVD), there is an entry for an empty track.
3. When you finalize a disk, the disk menu it creates is ugly.
4. The fan can be noisy, even when the unit is off.
5. Customer service leaves much to be desired, but at least they do speak english.
1. The unit has the ability to record all tracks from a DVD to the HD, as indicated on p.53 of the manual. This would be useful for say dubbing a home movie DVD to HD so you could re-edit or reburn a different disk with different tracks for other family members. If you have say 40 short clips to dub, this feature would be great since you could start it and let it copy all 40 tracks ("titles" in DVD lingo). Unfortunately it doesn't work. Well, it works, but only if the DVD you want to dub from is writable (has room left to record and is not finalized), which will not often be the case. This makes more sense if you are trying to dub from the HD to the DVD. But from DVD to HD? Why is this necessary? The company won't say. They just say it's just not designed to do that even though the manual says otherwise. So instead you have to do an analog copy from another DVD player, then break up the single full disk play into individual tracks - very time consuming. Or you could use the one-at-a-time dubbing feature, 40 times. Also time consuming.
2. When you finalize a disk (DVD), there is an entry for an empty track.
3. When you finalize a disk, the disk menu it creates is ugly.
4. The fan can be noisy, even when the unit is off.
5. Customer service leaves much to be desired, but at least they do speak english.
