Bought a new CyberHome DVD Player/Recorder DVR 1200 yesterday to record movies from Tv. Question?
I have dish network tv. I have my tv and the DVD Player/Recorder and satellite all hooked up. I pushed record to see if it would tape Hannah Montana for my little girl. After the show I stopped it and I finalized it. I took the cd out and put it in my computer. It shows no disc in drive. I used the Maxell DVD -R 4.7 GB and set it up for 3 hours just playing around. It won't play on my computer. I was hoping to record movies and then after I get used to it hook it up with my vcr and put all my VHS movies onto cd. I've heard reviews about cyberhome not being good, but it was new and only cost 53.00 but with no instructions. After I finalized it and it wouldn't play on computer, I put it back into the recorder and it played on it. What do I do. I am a single parent and don't want to pay a lot of money for this. I also was hoping to quickly tape some movies for my classroom off of the science channel.
I appreciate your fast response. It will playback in the recorder so I guess I will try to buy some DVD +r. Thanks.
There are 2 major formats for recordable mediums with DVD recordable discs, DVD+R and DVD-R unfortunately not all drives and players support both formats, try the burned disc in the recorder to see if it plays in the recorder first if this works then you know that your computers DVD-ROM/DVDR is not compatable with DVD-R discs. Also most likely many of your VHS tapes if they are store bought tapes will not copy to DVD properly due to macrovision. This is why when people ask me about set top box DVD recorders I usually steer people away from them, they are generally only good for recording TV shows and home movies.