Need help choosing a good dvd recorder

[trooper11]

Ive bene looking through lots of sites and reviews, but i dont see any real stand out recorders out there. now what im looking for is somehting in the sub 200 range, but anything around 300 ill consider. having a hd on it would be nice, but not a neccesity. i just want something with good quality recordings and decent editing abilities. a programming guide is somehting ill want too. any suggestions are welcome. also, i will be using this for archiving some of my vhs tapes and ill be running the video from a satellite reciever to the recorder. are thier any quality recorders in my price range? thanks.

[handyguy]

Not with a HD....

btw, its weird but you can search for just that in the dvd writers section on left column. Thats where they put dvd recorders too.

[samijubal]

Good luck in the sub 200 range, I wouldn't trust anything that cheap myself.

[trooper11]

yes im aware of the search function, and ive been through that, but views and opinions are so varied.....so i thought id post for something more concrete.


so anything in the 200-300 rang eis out of the question then?

[gshelley61]

JVC DR-M10 can be purchased a eCost.com for less than $300 including the shipping. Probably the best PQ of the DVD recorders available on the market right now and records standard DVD-Video format MPEG2 (VOB files) using -RW's. No HD, though. Edit, author and burn the finished -R with your computer.

[lordsmurf]

Supposedly the iLO at Walmart is a LiteOn 5001 and is $150. If that's all true, it's worth more investigation.

The JVC DR-M10 is the best one right now. Nice machine.

[trooper11]

hmm ok, i have read good things about the jvc model so ill look at that one. unfortunately editing on a pc wont be possible, becuase the person that will be using this doesnt have a pc that i owuld usggest doiing such work on lol, so an all in one solution is a better idea.

i guess getting one with a hd is just too much to aks for right now.

but if you compared that jvc model with a vcr, it would do everything that a vcr could do, and thats the main thing thats needed. getting a hd for pausing live tv and such would be nice, but it doesnt seem possible for that price. thanks for the help.