Hdd-recorder

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Hi,

Great new site, it looks very good. Thanks to everybody involved in the creation of the new site.

I'm planning to buy a hdd-recorder and would like to be able to control it with a Beo4 thru my Avant. I have been looking at different solutions; B&O DVD-controller, OneRemote (int. & ext.) and Lintronic. I'm not sure which of the solutions is working best.

Anybody who have experience (good or bad) in controlling a hdd-recorder with one of these solutions?

BEOfreak

I have a Panasonic DVD recorder/HDD/Freeview box and can work most of it using a Beo4 and a DVD controller. Not tried too hard to work out all the functions but it is pretty good. I believe B&O could be bringing out a recordable DVD pretty soon though.

My B&O Icons:

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Yes the DVD2, to be released in June, will have an 250Gb HD + a DVD reader/recorder.
I am really looking for it.

The DVD 2 is coming in June (in France):

 

  • DVD drive (of course !)
  • 250 GB HDD drive
  • able to write DVDs (only from HDD: you can't record a television show directly on a DVD)
  • HDMI output for easy plug (even if it is not HD)

 
The total length for records on the hard drive is far greater than the HDR 2 (I was told 10 times, with the same picture quality ! -> to be confirmed).

Price tag: 1500 €. 

I have found no pictures at the moment, but same design/dimensions than HDR 2.

 


The total length for records on the hard drive is far greater than the HDR 2 (I was told 10 times, with the same picture quality ! -> to be confirmed).


That is possible with a new compression algorithm : mpeg4 instead of mpeg 2 for instance... This is possible with a good processor.

Sounds very promising but va lack of a built in digital tuner and hence EPG would probably put me off. And the fact that Sky+ is just so easy!

My B&O Icons:

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Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beovox.png Beovox.png
Beovision-11.png Beovision-11.png
Beotime.png Beotime.png
Beosound-Stage.png Beosound-Stage.png
Beosound-Moment.png Beosound-Moment.png
Beosound-5.png Beosound-5.png
Beosound-2.png Beosound-2.png
Beoremote-One.png Beoremote-One.png
Beoplay-Portal.png Beoplay-Portal.png
Beoplay-Earset.png Beoplay-Earset.png
Beomaster.png Beomaster.png
Beolit.png Beolit.png
Beogram-400x.png Beogram-400x.png
Beocenter-2.png Beocenter-2.png

What about the BeoSystem 3's tuner? Are we sure that this cannot tune into two stations at once? If it could, then this in fact makes things easier than having one built into the DVD2 as it means you'll only have one module to swap when the digital standard changes.

If this isn't so, then it would seem to be a little pointlessly hindered.
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