AVOID RCA DVD recorders DRC8040, What CRAP!

I only had this DRC8040 3 months and it already died. The funny thing is I
only used it once a week. Bad design, it overheats and shuts off for no
reason, it freezes up for no reason, the S-video input died for no reason.
Now I gotta take it to an RCA service center and be without a recorder for 3
weeks. I guess paying only $130, I got what I paid for.

Mike

Maybe.. I paid $ 159 for a Lumatron. It sometimes freezes. Very sensitive to
cheap media. (Writes erroneously to half of my cheap media, rending these
unusable including waste of time). Manual terrible and faulty.
Also, the S-video input is so designed that an S-video plug will not enter
!!
Anyway, it is maybe a sign of the modern times. You can sell anything... If
it doesn't work, then again it was cheap..
But I am old fashioned. I expect a device to function. No matter the price.





"Mike" <> skrev i en meddelelse
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>I only had this DRC8040 3 months and it already died. The funny thing is I
> only used it once a week. Bad design, it overheats and shuts off for no
> reason, it freezes up for no reason, the S-video input died for no reason.
> Now I gotta take it to an RCA service center and be without a recorder for
> 3
> weeks. I guess paying only $130, I got what I paid for.
>
>

As an OLP once told me, "Get a Pioneer, duuuuuuude".

I haven't gone wrong there yet.

Cheers...

those Pioneers cant do DVD+R/RW

"Mark Burns" <> wrote in message
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> As an OLP once told me, "Get a Pioneer, duuuuuuude".
>
> I haven't gone wrong there yet.
>
> Cheers...
>

"Mike" <> wrote in message
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> those Pioneers cant do DVD+R/RW

Why would you want +R? The Pioneers do -R.

Mike wrote:
> I only had this DRC8040 3 months and it already died. The funny thing is I
> only used it once a week. Bad design, it overheats and shuts off for no
> reason, it freezes up for no reason, the S-video input died for no reason.
> Now I gotta take it to an RCA service center and be without a recorder for 3
> weeks. I guess paying only $130, I got what I paid for.

IFYSHFY. You're welcome. HAND.

-Junior

"Large Farva" <> wrote in message
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> "Mike" <> wrote in message
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>> those Pioneers cant do DVD+R/RW
>
> Why would you want +R? The Pioneers do -R.

If I'm not mistaken, DVD+RW does not require finalization in order to play
on a compatible player.

normanstrong wrote ...
> If I'm not mistaken, DVD+RW does not require finalization
> in order to play on a compatible player.

Doesn't sound right to me. Nothing about the re-writable
dye layer that changes the way the information is stored
(and indexed) logically on the disc.

"Richard Crowley" <> wrote in message
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> normanstrong wrote ...
>> If I'm not mistaken, DVD+RW does not require finalization in order to
>> play on a compatible player.
>
> Doesn't sound right to me. Nothing about the re-writable
> dye layer that changes the way the information is stored
> (and indexed) logically on the disc.

It is true that DVD+RW does not require finalization (I just checked it.)
Either that, or the simple act of stopping a recording in progress
automatically finalizes the disc. But if that were the case, it would drain
all meaning from the word "finalize".

Since I don't have any DVD-RW blanks, I can't verify the implied part of my
original statement--that DVD-RW DOES require finalization. Will someone
please check.

Norm Strong

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> "Large Farva" <> wrote in message
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>>
>> "Mike" <> wrote in message
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>>> those Pioneers cant do DVD+R/RW
>>
>> Why would you want +R? The Pioneers do -R.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, DVD+RW does not require finalization in order to play
> on a compatible player.

Yep, you're mistaken