Request for assistance

[nsingman]

Hi, campers. Would those of you familiar with DVD recorders (standalone decks, or with VCRs) please offer some suggestions?

We have one now, from Go Video (VCR/DVD recorder combo), but my beauteous and oft-praised jungle_goddess has had trouble playing the DVDs in some of our players. I wondered which ones those of you who had investigated this thought had the

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[allah_sulu]

My wife has wrestled with this a lot; I'll try to remember to ask her about it tonight. Some recorders/players prefer DVD+R to DVD-R, or vice versa, or don't work with some brands. If she can't find one that plays any kind of disk, she at least tries to make all of our equipment consistent as to which kind of disk they prefer.

[lesliepear]

There was a Phillips one we got last week on sale at Circuit City that claims to play Divx. It plays the +R and -R ones we burn on our PC anyway.

[sb_pyrat]

I haven't researched it much, but a few years ago I got a Sony DVD Recorder from my Dad. So far it's played everything I've stuck in it without a hitch. It records to DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW. It doesn't record to DVD+R discs, but it plays them. I have been really happy with it. the one feature I wish it had was an internal harddrive to record to before you burn...I know some have that now.

One other thing, it won't record copyrighted source material that has copy protection in the signal (like most store bought DVDs).

It's got a fair amount of input/output options...can't be completely specific off the top of my head other than I know it has component video and optical audio out (that's what I'm using)...it does for sure have s-video in (that's what I use from my cable box) and multiple RCA inputs (what I use for my dvd player/vcr/laserdisc player).

So not much hard research, but a wee bit of anecdotal information for you.

p.s.

[sb_pyrat]

So far the discs I have recorded have played in every other player I have tried...I assume it would play in all players that can play DVD-Rs, which is probably all or most modern DVD players, could possibily not play in older DVD players that weren't designed to play the recorded media.

p.p.s.

[sb_pyrat]

If you haven't already checked, circuit city's website usually has customer reviews of all their products...sometimes the info there is useful.