While this machine initially looks attractive, unfortunately it is seriously flawed in a number of respects. The two main irritations are (a) recording from the EPG is extremely unreliable; (b) the remote seems to give a very poor signal, and up to half the time the machine simply doesn’t respond to it.
The first problem makes the recorder more or less useless – when you click on a program to record in the EPG, you’re presented with a kind of drop-down menu in Pidgin English:
Simple recording
It can be recorded as a series
Impossible to separately record the program
No program information
Now, you tell me what that means. Here’s a clue – whatever you guess, you're wrong. If the program is part of a series, it is impossible to record one episode. However, clicking on “Simple recording” has no effect – nothing is recorded.
If you keep trying and trying, switch the machine off and on again a dozen times, it may eventually decide to record your programme… or it may not. I have given up, and am returning the machine. It's not just mine – the same problems are reported on forums.
It also doesn't seem to have any way to cancel future recording from the EPG, even if you follow the instructions in the manual. I ended up with it thinking I wanted all the repeated episodes of Emmerdale in one night, with no way to stop it.
Bizarrely, if you use an old LG hard drive recorder remote (e.g. from an LG RH177 (6711R1P108E)) you can not only use it to control everything apart from the EPG, but you can instantly access the "Timer Rec" menu without having to go laboriously through the menu, AND you can access "Picture In Picture", which I don't think is even advertised as a feature.
It's just badly designed. I wish I hadn't bought it...
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