Liteon LVW-5045B

I've given this unit 5 stars; but that is in the context that it is an early machine and that it is best for people who want a cheap 'playabout' machine that they can upgrade and 'mess' with. If you just want a basic PVR and your not the type to play around with firmware, change hard drives and dvd drives, then other units would probably suit you better. The really good points about the liteon is the fact that you can put a big hard drive on it (I've got a 320gb on mine) and it still works fine. Also, with certain firmware (installed) available on the internet, you can record VHS tapes and DVD films directly to hard drive or DVD through the front ...  Read the complete review

After lots of deliberating over which dvd recorder to buy I decided the lidl version of this recorder (targa) a couple of years ago and it has worked really well. It has a 160gb hard drive to record to and a dvd recorder which can write to almost all media available including the 8.5gb dual layered DVD discs. As well as being able to play DVD's it can also play xvid and divx videos which have been burned to dvd or cd. The HDD gives the advantage of being able to do time slip on video meaning you can pause live tv. You can also start recording a program and play it from the begining whilst it is still recording. For outputs it provides either scart ...  Read the complete review