Sharp DVHR300H Review

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Sharp DVHR300H
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Tonysreviews's Review of Sharp DVHR300H Digital Video Recorder

19th Sep 2006

Overall Rating

3 stars
  • Value for money
    3 stars
  • Image Quality
    4.5 stars
  • Features
    4.5 stars
  • Time DVD Recorder Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Sound Quality
    4.5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    1 stars
Good Points

Great image quality, editing options and ability to choose a scene for the thumbnail, unit looks very modern and sleek, very useful machine. Excellent programming options with video-plus. Excellent array of inputs and outputs. Sound is good through my Denon surround receiver.


Bad Points

Slow menu's! Takes forever to refresh a page of icons. Menu system is very tedious, a real pain to use. You can't open a list of icons and then decide whether to edit, delete, rename whichever recording. You have to first enter the edit menu and wait for images to refresh, then select the recording, then wait, then carry out your operation, then wait, and then save and confirm, then wait, and then exit the edit menu, then exit menu page, you get the idea.

Naming a recording, editing, deleting all take far too long, as I seem to have to wait ages for each activity to complete. Imagine opening a folder of pictures on your PC and instead of instantly seeing a page of thumbnails, each icon individually took about 4 seconds to display the photo in the thumbnail. This isn't a problem in text-only "list" mode.

Booting takes forever when turned on.
Sometimes crashes, software/firmware locks up when you attempt to do consecutive operations quickly.
When attempting multiple recordings unattended over a period of time, sometimes only the first will have been made.


General Comments

Picture quality of commercially prerecorded DVD films is very good with my Sharp DVHR300H, noticeably better than my Mitsubishi black-line DVD player, though not up to the standard of my truly excellent Toshiba DVD player.

To summarise, it is a good quality, good looking unit which does what I bought it for - that is to record programmes to hard disk for later viewing or dubbing onto DVD for the few that I actually want to keep long term.

Unfortunately I've been let down by its infuriatingly slow and awkward to use software.

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