Sharp DVHR300H Reviews

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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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Sorry but I can't agree with the first reviewers remarks on the
Sharp DVHR300H + 80Gb HDD. For me it is a great machine and no problem at all with the timer.
As usual it took a day to get to grips with the settings etc because there is so much more you can do with this than with a video recorder.
I now have only half the scart leads in the back than before. It took a while to work out what went where but eventually I got there.
When set on fine recording which I use the image playback is ...

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Bug report. When Timer is programed or Edit is used and then you try to Initialize a DVD it will prompt because recording is in Progress. DVD cannot be ejected and power-off to reboot the system. Overall Menu are visually unattractive and fonts are bulky. User friendlyness is 2/10.

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Sharp DVHR300H + 80Gb HDD - Bought this model before the Athens Olympics to record late at night events (well, for us here in Sydney, they were late at night) - liked the fact it could do -R DVD (for our household's laptops) also had an i-Link at the front for the video camera.

HOWEVER, all this is of little use when the built-in timer loses an averge of 25 mins over 12 - 48 hours. Have now tried THREE units and all failed in this department. Useless if trying to record any program. The middl ...