Are Hitachi dvd recorders any good ?

[eddie1]

have trawled this site for information on hitachi dvd recorders and havent found much info on it

Is this because this is a poor recorder that no one has or is it because they are fairly new to manufacture of recorders

what i reall want to know is the picture quality good on the longer record times ?

[ChainsawDude]

I too am baffled and mystyfied as to the lack of reviews and feedback about Hitachi DVD records. Absolutely none!

I am looking at the Hitachi dv-ds81e, it seems really flexible in that does all the formats but I am a bit put off by the fact that no one seems to have bought one.

Can anyone throw any light on the situation?

[samijubal]

Are they a rebagged LG? LG burners are a Hitachi/LG joint thing.

[lordsmurf]

You saw these recorders where?

[ChainsawDude]

I have seen the Hitachi dv-ds81e in John Lewis (a large and reputable UK chain store), various shop web sites and on ebay (new units).
I asked at John Lewis and they said that they had not had one returned yet, which was a kind of recommendation I suppose.

[ChainsawDude]

I have finally resolved this, the answer is that they are not very good, because these units lack RGB in which ruins the recorded picture quality.

[mray]

The new models have RGB-in.

Haven't seen them anywhere though!