Yamada DVR-8000 Review

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Yamada DVR-8000
3.2 stars
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cdavis999's Review of Yamada DVR-8000 DVD Recorder

23rd Sep 2007

Overall Rating

1 stars
  • Value for money
    1 stars
  • Image Quality
    4 stars
  • Features
    1.5 stars
  • Time DVD Recorder Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Sound Quality
    2.5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    0.5 stars
Good Points

Very cheap - I paid £150 for it, two years ago


Bad Points

SCART output is washed out and unusable. Setup is tedious and counter-intuitive. Power failure loses important settings. Frequent drop-outs during recording - system crashes and shuts off. Last recorded video chunk is not written to disk index - shows up on a PC as a corrupted file which can't be copied and must be hacked first. Remote control is ridiculously difficult to use - large Pause button.


General Comments

I've come to hate this device. Working with it has revealed that it is exactly as it appears: a demo system from the chipset manufacturers with a badge. The fiddly setup required for recording would be acceptable if it wasn't also required for simple DVD playback as well! As a general-use DVD player it's simply horrible. More than anything else, the pains of using this device has led to my almost never using it for recording. Support seems non-existent - which figures given that the engine of this machine was built by a chipset manufacturer as a demo. Yamada themselves - such as they are - seem to have no technical knowledge of the system. One firmware release and that was that.

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