Need new hard drive recorders at home (1 Viewer)

[Minxy]

At home we currently have some hard drive / DVD recorders which are getting old in the tooth and keep playing up (like not recording hubby's rugby ) and sometimes loose the plot totally, so we're looking to replace them but aren't sure what with.

We have ones with built in DVDs so that we can transfer programmes we've recorded to the hard drive to DVD to take away in the camper as our Avtex won't play them via the USB connection (see separate thread).

Assuming I can get the Avtex to play USB/portable hard drive recordings done elsewhere I won't need the DVD bit, therefore I assume I'll just need a hard drive recorder with a USB 'out'? If so, can anyone recommend any models - I'd need to get a couple of them so wouldn't want to pay the earth but don't want a load of rubbish either.

 

[Gollom]

Hiya

We use one of these attached to the HDMI input on our TV. They take USB sticks and seem to cope with every format chucked at them. Will pay music through your TV too

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Sumvi...687082?hash=item2c94c7dc6a:g:eCAAAOSwZjJU7JyJ

 

[Deleted member 29692]

Can't help with suggesting any hard drives but maybe I can with the Avtex USB problem.

It only supports USB drives formatted in a certain way and will only play standard media file type of which the DVD format isn't one.

Bit more info here:

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[Minxy]

Thanks Nic - I think he's already tried everything the could find on the internet but I'll pass this on to him just in case ... you never know!

 

[buttons]

I have recently installed a new WD hard drive, it does everything it says on the box. It is a WD cloud share 3tb, it's storage is available from anywhere on any phone tab or pc. 10/10

 

[SomeoneElse]

When our Pan-a-cronic box played up in a similar manner, I rescanned all the channels. This seemed to work but a by product of the rescan was that all the recording timers were deleted. Now when it plays up I just delete the inactive timers. A bit of a pain but it does help.

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[Deleted member 29692]

Thanks Nic - I think he's already tried everything the could find on the internet but I'll pass this on to him just in case ... you never know!

It''s from the instruction manual for my TV. As far as I know it's the same for all models.

I only know because it's come up a couple of times before

 

[Gollom]

Hiya

We use one of these attached to the HDMI input on our TV. They take USB sticks and seem to cope with every format chucked at them. Will pay music through your TV too

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Sumvi...687082?hash=item2c94c7dc6a:g:eCAAAOSwZjJU7JyJ

Comes with a 240V plug but you can get an adaptor that allows it to be used on 12V also

 

[DBK]

Can't help with suggesting any hard drives but maybe I can with the Avtex USB problem.

It only supports USB drives formatted in a certain way and will only play standard media file type of which the DVD format isn't one.

Bit more info here:

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I think the key point is your video recordings need to be in mpeg 2 format. If your video recorder can't do that you would need to convert them using a pc, which can be a slow process and more hassle than it may be worth.

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[hilldweller]

some hard drive / DVD recorders

If you use the term PVR personal video recorder you'll get better hits.

 

[Boringfrog]

I have a Topfield 5800, you can transfer any recorded programs to a PC or HDD.