Yamada DVR 8000 DVD-Player with DVD-Recorder Best Buy

Yamada DVR 8000 - hopeless - beware - 15 Nov 2006

2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

The only thing that is easy is playing a DVD. Recording - the instructions are so bad that you need a day to figure it out; it doesn't scan the channels properly or accept manual input and the timer won't store instructions so we've never managed to record the right programme! When playing a DVD you can hear the TV in the background and you can't record something whilst watching another channel. Perhaps this can be sorted out with some technical support - but they don't respond to email requests, the support telephone lines go to an answer machine or give you some instructions to prepare for the support - and then hang up. We will have to buy another one now.

yamada dvr 8000 player recorder - 19 Jan 2005

2 out of 5 found this review helpful.

this proved very complicated to use,and the instructions were very difficult to understand.

Superb value - just buy it! - 19 Jan 2005

3 out of 6 found this review helpful.

Told myself if I found a DVD recorder under £100 I'd get ne, so I did...

Out of the box, plug in the tv aerial, connect scart output to the tv, tune in the channels, connect Sky to the scart input. Then stick in a blank DVD+RW, cheapest I could find in Tescos at 8pm, select the channel and press record. Simple. Perfect. If you can plug in and connect a Video Recorder, you can do this.

Other things... It writes in compatible mode: Took the Rewritable DVD out of the unit, took it to all three other DVD players I have (expensive Pioneer home cinema system, cheapo thirty quid unit for my 10 year old, and a Mustek portable thingy) and they all played perfectly straight away - no finalising or closing the disk. I could then take the disk back to the recorder and add more stuff to it, so the kids can have their own rewritable disk and keep adding to it...

The only negative I've found so far is that you can only erase either the last thing you recorded or the whole disk.

Build quality seems fine - OK the remote is cheapish and you have to look a bit for buttons, but for the cost of a middle-of-the-road stereo VCR, you can't go wrong.

Useless - 25 Jun 2004

60 out of 66 found this review helpful.

Poor instructions, very noisey unit, terrible remote design (I mean so bad that trying to find Play was an ordeal), unit very slow (to the point where I thought it had crashed), crashed a lot (both units), had two units neither of which recorded sound, found out there needed to be a firmware update, company didn't answer phone, didn't answer emails, wasted a month on trying to sort it out, got rid of it.