| Subject: | Re: will Philips DVD recorder control telewest cable box?
| | Date: | 21 Jul 2003 12:10:33 GMT
| | From: | "James Covey-Crump" <james.covey-crump@nospam.uk>
| | Newsgroups: | uk.media.home-cinema,uk.tech.digital-tv
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"Whoops! SCOTTIES" <nospamthankyouverymuchnova88fm@btinternet.com>
wrote:
> if you haven't yet bought this recorder, i warn you not to they're
> extremely proe to faults. i've had 4, including 2 of the £1299.99
> ones, and they've all gone faulty - reading "disc error" during
> recording and that means gaps in the recording. applies to models 980
> and 880. all crap i'm afraid!
Never had any problems with mine (a PHILIPS DVDR 880). I heard there where
some reliability problems with DVD+R (write once) disks in the earily
days.
Keith, sorry I've never tried using it with a cable box (I tend to use it
in "satellite mode" which starts it recording when pin 8 is asserted).
JamesCC
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