Comments on: Ilo DVDR05 DVD Recorder: Inexpensive DVD Recording After Some Hassle

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:31:04 +0000

James: Hit the record button – you will see in the top right hand corner of the screen that each time you hit record, it will change the recording time to 30, 60, 90 minutes etc. Keep hitting until you see “Time Rec Off.” This should fix your prob.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:03:28 +0000

I cannot get my recorder to scan the channels from my satellite receiver. Almost the same problem Fernie said on the above post. The only one I get is the one I am watching on the receiver and it comes on in channel three of the recorder. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong.My unit is DVDR05ZU if that makes a difference. No upgrade yet to receiver.The connections are: Coaxial connection from the Satellite receiver to the recorder(in Ant) and coaxial cable from recorder(out) to tv. RCA output from recorder to TV.

By: James

James — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:46:28 +0000

Hi ,I just purcased a ILO DVDRO5. It seems to record and play fine ,but I cant get it to record over 1 hour.The manual says choose TIMEDREC OFF if you dont want to specify a recording length.I cant find this setting. Does anyone out there know where it is and how to get to it? thanks James

By: Fernie

Fernie — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:46:55 +0000

Need help. Just got the ilo dvdro5 for my birthday today and can’t get it to work at all. I have direct tv and can’t seem to get it configured right with the cables. The instructions only show how to hook up through dvd to vcr to tv. Can anyone help?

By: Peach R.

Peach R. — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:28:16 +0000

Great review. I purchased one of these units about 5 months ago. The unit performed well for 1 day before it quit. I exchanged the unit for a second one the next day. There was no hassel at all at Wal-Mart getting the exchange. The second unit has more than met my expectations. There are a few things I have found out about my unit that I will pass on to you.

1. Don’t use DVD+R disks unless you plan to use the disks only on the ilo it was burned on. I have 3 DVD players in other rooms and none of them will make it through an entire recorded and finalized DVD+R disk without locking up. DVD+RW disks play on all of these players with no problems.

2. The 4 hour mode works well for recording TV programs. Anything over 4 hours degrades too much and the 8 hour mode is not acceptable.

3. DON’T FILL UP THE DISK!!!!! If you are using the 4 hour mode, leave at least 30 minutes of free space on the disk or you may loose everything you have recorded. As with a lot of burners on PC’s the machine requires some space on the disk to store information your player needs to know what is on the disk. If you fill up the disk and the player does not have enough room to write this information to the disk, you will probably loose everything on the disk. I have tried this several times and it does happen – at least on my unit.

4. When you finish recording a program, be sure to protect the program before you remove the disk. If you don’t protect the program you recorded you will loose it when you remove the disk – at least this happens on my unit. You may also loose the disk if it’s a DVD+R.

5. The battery life on the remote seems to be acceptable. I have been using the unit I have for about 5 months and I still have the same battery in it. The unit is used every day for recording or for playing back something.

6. One really great feature my unit has is the ability to play back .jpeg pictures and MP3 music files at the same time like a slide show. I have loaded up to 150 pictures and several MP3 songs on one CD-RW disk and once inserted in the ilo unit, and after a trip through the menu that pops up, the unit will show the pictures and play the music at the same time – and the pictures will auto index about every 6 seconds. I am very pleased with this feature! Its just like a slide show without all of the setup time on a PC.

I hope this information will be helpful.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:57:15 +0000

I have got the DVDR615 myself, and I think it is a great device. The sound and image quality is great!

More info:
http://www.consumer.philips.com/dvdrecorders
More reviews:
http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review1720.html

Hope this will help you.

By: BK

BK — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:39:37 +0000

Good review. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with Magnavox MRB660 and Philips DVDR615.

By: Iva

Iva — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 02:42:05 +0000

will another remote work on the ilo? If so.. what kind, and what are the codes? I need help.