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davedoubledecks

11:40 AM on 16 October, 2008

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Hi, nice review. The quick start recording you mentioned - can you give us an indication of how long it takes to start recording from power-up? With my current Sony DVD recorder, I have to wait over 2 minutes for it to "boot up" before I can do a thing which is so frustrating. Are we talking seconds or minutes to record from power-up with the LG?

Also, FWIW I thought it was pidgin english, not pigeon?!

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DannyP

12:25 PM on 17 October, 2008

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Not sure of the exact time but it's certainly less than two minutes, under a minute in fact. In the review I was actually talking about how quickly it starts recording when it's already on, but in both cases it's pretty slick. And yes it is pidgin not pigeon, my brain needs a firmware update.

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mohammad

7:27 AM on 26 October, 2008

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I have an American camcorder. I tried to connect it before to an old LG DVD recorder that have VHS too. But it wasn't working because the recorder doesn't allow NTSC as an input.

Can I use my camcorder to transfer the NTSC movie with this device?

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Si90

6:59 PM on 17 November, 2008

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Hi - good review. I am looking for another DVD recorder having had a Philips DVDR3597H DVD/HDD but this seemed to have some compatibility issues with an InFocus X10 projector which meant you couldn't connect via HDMI. Do you know if I am likely to have similar issues with this unit?

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If you're in the market for a DVD recorder, the DRT389H ticks all the boxes - multi-format recording, Freeview+, 1080p upscaling and dual-layer support - and for just over £100 online you can't say fairer than that. Some aspects of the deck's operating system are a bit clumsy, and we're not exactly enamoured by its Freeview picture quality or the performance of DVFX, but in all other respects the LG is an impressive proposition.

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Reviewed by Danny Phillips

15 October 2008

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£110.69

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