Coby DVD-R1280 DVD Recorder/Player

(Progressive Scan, 80GB Hard Drive - MPN: DVDR1280)

Description: The Coby DVD-R1280 is a recorder and player that has many useful features to exceed your expectations. DVD-R1280 provides you recording choices in DVD discs (DVD+R or DVD+RW) and on an 80GB Hard Disk Drive. The recording capacity depends on.... Read More

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Date Reviewed: 02/03/2007
squizzy411 from MI Member Since: Feb 2007 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 1 Months	Coby DVD-R1280 w/80GB HDD Strengths: Great Price, good entry-level HDD recorder. Easy to Program, much like a VCR. Multiple quality selections (HQ, EP, SP, SLP, etc) help to manage HDD space. DV input. Weaknesses: More like a VCR with "timed record" functions than a TIVO with multiple view/record/titling functionality. SLOW dubbing from HDD to DVD. Takes only +R or +RW media. Summary: 2007-02-08 08:32:26 I work for a church and bought this about a month ago just to record our weekly satellite seminars. Instead of programming & recording each session individually to VHS, this machine allows me to program up to 8 recordings at a time directly to its built-in hard drive. Of course, then I have to wait for it to dub to DVD... (Which, for my last 2-hour recording, took around 15 minutes) Note, when you've programmed a "timed record," the unit must be OFF to actually begin recording. So, unlike a TIVO, you cannot use the built-in tuner while recording. A nice feature would be firewire output so I can dump to my CPU and edit before recording to DVD. But then that's why they invented TV Tuner cards... 100% of People (3/3) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 07/06/2006
OBEKENOBE Member Since: Jul 2006 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 7 Days	coby 1280 Strengths: easy to use for record and playback Weaknesses: editing only allow delete of entire recorded file and to change file title name... can not edit select part of long recording like commercial before burning DVD Summary: The editing function can not select parts of a recorded video file so the entire recording is burned to DVD as is... EDIT options on menu selected is to delete entire video file or change video file title display before burn to R+ dvd 88% of People (7/8) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 05/16/2006
cmsmith325 Member Since: May 2004 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 1 Year	DVD-R1280 DVD Recorder/Player (Progressive Scan, 80GB Hard Drive Strengths: Value for price - DVD+R/RW and HHD Recorder for under $230. Weaknesses: Machine is noisy when copying from the HHD to DVD, only 8 slots for programming recording times. Summary: 2007-03-24 12:54:34 I purchased this unit to replace another DVD/HHD recorder that has been in repair/replacement for over 3 months. The controls are easy to understand. It only took a few minutes to program the recorder. The auto-play feature is useful for playing DVDs. The DV input is handy for copying personal videos to DVD/HHD. My ILO recorder is a better product, this one serves as a backup to that one. 79% of People (11/14) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.