SONY BRAVIA

November 12, 2007 | By Doug In kitchen appliance |

HD Ready. So you can experience High Definition on our BRAVIA range.
BRAVIA U-Series large screen televisions are High Definition (HD) ready. The HD signal will contain nearly five times the information of a conventional signal and bring even more lifelike imagery to your favourite programmes and movies.

Kiss 1600 Media Player / DVD Recorder- With Ethernet & Wifi Connectivity
Amazon Price: ?199.12
Used Price: ?185.70
Customer Review: Best gadget so far
This is by far the best gadget I have bought so far. Was looking for a means of sending mp3 and avi direct from my computer to my tv/amp via wireless in a different room. The house I am in has very thick walls and I was concerned however, I have a very good signal and getting good quality avi files and mp3 direct to tv. No flickering and very easy to install. Recommend this item.

Lite-on 5045 Dual Format DVD Recorder with 160GB Hard Drive
Forget about the running out of recording space. With the built in160GB HDD( Hard Disk Drive) you may record up to 198 hours ( SLPmodes) of quality video programs on it. The coexistence of theoptical disc drive and the built-in HDD on LVW-5045 doesn
Used Price: ?128.30
Customer Review: Nooooooooooo- don’t do it……
Fantastic machine for a couple of months when did everything it said on box, then problems began- dvd player stopped recording, then didn’t want to play dvd’s that had been recorded on it, then stopped playing original feature film dvd’s, even though a ?20 dvd player in the kids room played everything we threw at it, then hard drive crashed and we lost all the kids programmes that had slowly been built up on it, hard drive still worked but has crashed another two times losing everything on drive and finally died the other week when it came up with a fatal error message- built in hard disk utilities within the liteon don’t work! If you want one of these don’t waste too much money- I paid ?250 for mine - absolute waste of money! Don’t pay more than ?20 and then don’t expect it to last for long this is a disposable item… By the way the hdd has been ripped out chucked in an icy box and now works fine when attached to my pc- although all the recordings had gone- so couple of quid retrieved there.
Customer Review: Loved it when it worked!
I bought this back in ‘05 for 1p short of ?300 and at first it did everything it said on the box, apart from the odd crash which I could live with. BUT… after about a year of use it started to get fussy about the blank DVD’s it wanted to record on, just spitting them out with ‘Invalid Disc’ errors. Then it decided it didn’t really want to record on any discs… DVD+R,-R,+RW,-RW. I bought various cake boxes of blank DVD’s including Ritek and Taiyo Yuden (not cheap), both on the Lite-on recommended disc list and generally regarded as ‘bullet proof’. I could just about live with this as the hard drive is large and I also have a PC to copy discs and export DV to. However, now it doesn’t read DVDR’s either! It plays the odd bought DVD but anything recorded on a DVDR just doesn’t work. I’ve updated the firmware but… nothing. So now what I’m left with is a machine that just records off the TV. I’ve had to buy a separate DVD player to sit on top and I have my freeview box sitting on top of that. Not the neatest set-up to have stuck under your TV. What annoys me most is while it worked it was great and I bought my dad the Lite-On 5025 80Gb model for his birthday. But even after very light use and infrequent recording to DVDR, his is now starting to suffer from the same problems I had. Fortunately it is JUST inside the guarantee so will be going back and hopefully will get repaired first time. If you’re considering a lite-on product I would seriously think again. I’ve spent close to ?500 on these two recorders in little over 2 years and they’re both on their last legs.