Ellion DVD-900A Reviews

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Good Points: When it works it's good good recordings

Bad Points: complicated

General comments: The Ellion DVD-900A will not keep it's time my recordings never work for long even the date can change if it feels like it IT IS A MYSTERY:-(

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Hunted down the outfit that imported these: avsaleseurope.com

AV Sales Europe Ltd

Unit 19
Ashford Business Complex
Feltham Road
Ashford
Middlesex
TW15 - 1YQ

Tel: +44 (0) 870 888 0168
Fax: +44 (0) 1784 229 414

e-mail: info@avsaleseurope.com

Call this lot and complain like a madman as they have a Korean Rep onsite!

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Although this machine has numerous features and is competitively priced, I would not recommend it as it apears to have defective firmware. The machine has problems detecting, storing and organising digital channels as well as hanging on a regular basis. The Ellion web site does not list the DTR-850D let alone provide any firmware updates. Request for support from the Ellion support e-mail address resulted in a lengthy wait with no useful information provided.

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The first Ellion DVD-900A DVD recorder I received hung when you loaded a +RW disc, and the second machine hangs when I try to finalise an +R disc. This is just a few of the problems, but I think you will agree it makes it a totally useless purchase.

I notice from the reviews where they have got the recorders to work, that they are old reviews.

I tried adding firmware to the first machine, but this made no difference, the second machine looks the same on the outside, but the menus are diffe ...

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I tried the Ellion DVD-900A and found it worse than alpha code. I will now try to download the new firmware (other reviewers indicate this) but without it the recorder is useless.

Here are the faults seen after first use:

Recorded DVDs do not play in my standard recorder;
DVD is spoilt if recording is not stopped before space runs out (shows "nodisk");
Manual does not match machine (finalize instead of make compatible, edit title does not work);
Stopped/froze twice with software error;
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The Ellion DVD Recorder can be bought at a bargain price, but is it any good? I have used it now for 3 months and after a firmware upgrade can definitely say "yes". It records on +R and +RW discs and the quality is much better than VHS tape. The discs can now be bought online for as low as 38p and with the Ellion you can get 2 hours of high quality recording. Longer if you are not too fussy about quality. It also plays DVDs; CDs and I can show my digital photographs which I have burned to a dis ...

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Having agonised about buying a DVD recorder ,when I saw this Ellion DVD-900A machine at the price it seemed too good to miss. I have been delighted with it and have not found the problems that the previous reviewer did. It worked straight out of the box and plays back discs previously recorded on computer in both +R and -R.
Updating firmare is very easy from the Ellion website via downloaded software burned onto a CD, full instructions are given. The unit is easily set to region free by typing ...

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Ellion DVD-900A - I already have a number of DVD disks which I have recorded on a Sony and a Philips DVD recorder. Some of the Sony formatted disks can be played on the Ellion and some cannot, (none of the Phillips format ones play) even though the disks are OK and also playback on a Bush 7" LCD DVD player and on a Windows XP equipped PC. I also find that Ellion will not playback DVD-R or DVD-RW disks which is also disappointing as it quite clearly states on the packaging that it does so. Since ...