My Remotes Are Breeding
May. 28th, 2007 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kerravonsenI can't remember whether or not I ever mentioned my SONIQ DVD recorder to you folks. It's a real lemon. For a DVD recorder, it's a good DVD player. So today I was very J and bought a Pioneer DVD recorder, because JB HiFi were having a stocktake sale, and it was an ex-demo machine and it was about $100 off the price...
Of course, I don't know whether it's a really good recorder, but it has to be better than the lemon. I don't expect it to spontaneously turn off, lose its settings or have the sound go wonky -- all of which happens regularly with the lemon.
And it's already region-free, which makes things easier.
Mind you, I'm not going to be recording anything with it at the moment (apart from perhaps transferring tapes to DVD) because my TV reception practically non-existant; I think my TV antenna is kaput.
There is one thing that the lemon does better than the Pioneer: it plays DVD data disks, which the Pioneer doesn't understand. So, hey, for a DVD recorder, the lemon is a good DVD player. So I think I'll use it as such, and leave the recording to the Pioneer -- when I get a replacement TV antenna. In the meantime, there's DVDs and bit-torrent.
Of course, I don't know whether it's a really good recorder, but it has to be better than the lemon. I don't expect it to spontaneously turn off, lose its settings or have the sound go wonky -- all of which happens regularly with the lemon.
And it's already region-free, which makes things easier.
Mind you, I'm not going to be recording anything with it at the moment (apart from perhaps transferring tapes to DVD) because my TV reception practically non-existant; I think my TV antenna is kaput.
There is one thing that the lemon does better than the Pioneer: it plays DVD data disks, which the Pioneer doesn't understand. So, hey, for a DVD recorder, the lemon is a good DVD player. So I think I'll use it as such, and leave the recording to the Pioneer -- when I get a replacement TV antenna. In the meantime, there's DVDs and bit-torrent.
