Pioneer DVR-640H (160 GB) DVD Recorder / HDD Recorder
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- Number of Discs: 1
- Progressive Scan: With Progressive Scan
- TV Tuner: With TV Tuner
- Playable Disk Types: DVD Video DVD-RAM DVD-R DVD-RW DVD+R DVD+RW CD (Audio) CD-R CD-RW Picture CD DVD-R DL DVD+R DL
- Playable File Formats: DivX MP3 WMA JPEG
- DVD Type: DVD Recorder / HDD Recorder
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A very good choice!
Pros
Chase play, play dvd while you record on HDD, manual commercial skip
Cons
Title name problems, Do not play DivX from DVD-DL, some DivX will not have picture
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
That recorder is a very good choice, maybe the best one.
This review is about the Pioneer DVR-640H HDD 160Gig, I own it for a month.
(Another good choice might be the Panasonic but it's more expensive)
I think this recorder is one of the best, I have three different DVD players from Pioneer, I think they do good product, my first one has ten years and is still working great except for some new movie with too much copy protection.
The good points:
That machine is like a jukebox, you can store on the hard disk some CDs, MP3, jpg pictures and even porn DVD movie since they usually don't have protection against copy.
You can even store regular copyright DVD movies if you remove protection with something like anydvd (I did it with Dora).
Make less noise than a VCR.
You can watch DVD while you record on the hard disk.
You can skip commercial by increments, 0:30 sec 1:00 min,1:30 2:00 3:00…
If you plan to record from 8:00 to 9:00 and decide at 8:10 that you want to watch your program you can start to watch it while you record it, this is really cool, and since you can skip the commercial you catch up pretty fast.
You can record on almost any kind of media including double layer.
The bad points:
There are a few minor flaws that I don't understand from a company with such experience and good product but those are not big problem it's just annoying.
For example:
When you enter some program to be recorded you can give them names, that's cool since you can have up to 32 programs it could become confusing but once the program is record, it doesn't have the name you give it, instead the name is the date and time and you have to rename it manually.
The display button has no use while watching a dvd (usually I use it to see how much time is remaining or how long is the movie)
When you change the language or caption during a movie you see only numbers like 1, 2, 3 instead of English, French, Spanish…
You can play CD or DVD with DivX but not DVD-DL with DivX. There is a usb port but you cannot play DivX from usb memory stick.
I hope they will have a firmware upgrade at least for the display button and the title name lost, anyway that recorder is a very good choice, maybe the best one.
By the way 160Gig is a minimum.
(Another good choice might be the Panasonic but it's more expensive)
I think this recorder is one of the best, I have three different DVD players from Pioneer, I think they do good product, my first one has ten years and is still working great except for some new movie with too much copy protection.
The good points:
That machine is like a jukebox, you can store on the hard disk some CDs, MP3, jpg pictures and even porn DVD movie since they usually don't have protection against copy.
You can even store regular copyright DVD movies if you remove protection with something like anydvd (I did it with Dora).
Make less noise than a VCR.
You can watch DVD while you record on the hard disk.
You can skip commercial by increments, 0:30 sec 1:00 min,1:30 2:00 3:00…
If you plan to record from 8:00 to 9:00 and decide at 8:10 that you want to watch your program you can start to watch it while you record it, this is really cool, and since you can skip the commercial you catch up pretty fast.
You can record on almost any kind of media including double layer.
The bad points:
There are a few minor flaws that I don't understand from a company with such experience and good product but those are not big problem it's just annoying.
For example:
When you enter some program to be recorded you can give them names, that's cool since you can have up to 32 programs it could become confusing but once the program is record, it doesn't have the name you give it, instead the name is the date and time and you have to rename it manually.
The display button has no use while watching a dvd (usually I use it to see how much time is remaining or how long is the movie)
When you change the language or caption during a movie you see only numbers like 1, 2, 3 instead of English, French, Spanish…
You can play CD or DVD with DivX but not DVD-DL with DivX. There is a usb port but you cannot play DivX from usb memory stick.
I hope they will have a firmware upgrade at least for the display button and the title name lost, anyway that recorder is a very good choice, maybe the best one.
By the way 160Gig is a minimum.
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