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12 February 2003
Filed under:Gadgets at7:15 pm

I don’t want to leap into buying a cheap DVD recorder that uses a format that might be come obsolete soon, so I am waiting for something like the Sony RDR-GX7 which can read and write most of them. Unfortunately, according to the page referenced it is due to cost an eye-watering £900, won’t arrive for another two months and allows you to program in a puny eight events?!

A device like this that combines recordable DVD with a hard disk seems as far away as ever.loan surgery 0payday loan advanced100 loan financing commercial53 student loanauto loans affordableloans accordforce car loans air newvalue loans 2nd mortgage 110letter repayment acceptance loanadvance act loan pay

2 Comments »

  1. Hi, I heard/read that Philips has a recorder out that is compatable with all three formats. About same price as the Sony.

    might be worth checking out

    ganam

    Comment by ganam — 12 February 2003 @ 9:49 pm

  2. You have missed the compatibility issue I am concerned about. I’m not worried about compatibility with DVD players – I am worried about compatibility with DVD recording standards. The Philips machine records in “DVD+RW & DVD+R Format” – but there are other formats – notably DVD-R I think. If those standards turn out to be more popular you *might* not be able to buy blank discs for the player in a few years’ time.

    Comment by David Brake — 13 February 2003 @ 6:30 pm

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