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TVONICS DTR-Z500
TVonics Freeview+ Digital TV Recorder. Recording TV has never been so simple. Watch, record and pause digital TV. Works with analog or digital televisions.
Average customer rating:
(3 Reviews) 3
Customer reviews for TVONICS DTR-Z500
Review 1 for TVONICS DTR-Z500
Customer rating
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review by: reg2843
05 November 2010
Value for Money
5
/
5
Connectivity
5
/
5
Pros: Inexpensive, Compact
"Very good looking piece of equipment, compact being a big bonus.
easily installed and very simple to use.
Some people have complained about the green coloured screen when displaying the programme guide.......personally i don't see it being an issue.
Bought it, installed it and went on holidy for 2 weeks..it did miss some episodes when it was set to record a series, however as it was supposed to do, it searched for repeats and recorded them.
I am impressed enough to have gone out and purchased it's big brother the DTR-HD500."
easily installed and very simple to use.
Some people have complained about the green coloured screen when displaying the programme guide.......personally i don't see it being an issue.
Bought it, installed it and went on holidy for 2 weeks..it did miss some episodes when it was set to record a series, however as it was supposed to do, it searched for repeats and recorded them.
I am impressed enough to have gone out and purchased it's big brother the DTR-HD500."
I have used this product for: 1-3 months
Expertise: Intermediate
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Review 2 for TVONICS DTR-Z500
Customer rating
Excellent purchase, simple to use
review by: Milkmaid
from Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK
13 April 2010
Value for Money
4
/
5
Connectivity
4
/
5
Pros: Compact, hansom, quiet
Cons: a little slow starting up
"Having an old fashioned TV connected to a Freeview box, DVD and Video the cabling was ‘interesting’, erroneously I left the DVD and Video connected. Once I freed up all the cables the installation worked like a dream.
Analogue was switched off on 7th April so needed to get a system that recorded.
This product is so simple to work and we are very pleased we choose the upgraded model, it is small, innocuous and environmentally friendly and remembers where we last stopped viewing a programme.
We concur with other reviews, and would recommend this to anyone."
I have used this product for: 1-3 months
Expertise: Novice
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Review 3 for TVONICS DTR-Z500
Customer rating
Good value and simple to use
review by: Jonathan
from London
22 October 2009
Pros: Inexpensive, Compact, well designed
Cons: digital freeview only
"I originally bought a 250G version which developed symptoms: 'not able to start up' when there was poor signal quality, then all the time. Laskys eventually replaced it with a 500G version (effectively a £50 upgrade). This works perfectly, possibly SCART analogue out is not so good, may be the cable.
Two issues - it doesn't remember where I last stopped watching a recorded program - the old one did. There are now no on-screen transport indicators, just a black square. Hopefully this will be addressed in frothcoming software upgrades.
Two issues - it doesn't remember where I last stopped watching a recorded program - the old one did. There are now no on-screen transport indicators, just a black square. Hopefully this will be addressed in frothcoming software upgrades.
The unit is small, well built and discreet, gives of little heat or noise and consumes little energy. The OS is great - just dive around the programme guide and press record on the highlightetd item, it also checks if you want to record a whole series ot not - great. Then look in the Liibrary for your list of recorded show and available recording capacity and time. You can record two shows at once while watching sometheing else you have recorded, which is very smart."
I have used this product for: 1-3 months
Expertise: Intermediate
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