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Any one have a ilo DVD Recorder With 80 GB Hard Drive, DVDRH04, from Wal-Mart,is it a good recorder?
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Nick2
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17. May 2006 @ 08:54 |
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Here's a question, and for once it isn't because I actually have a problem with my ILO. I want to take a commercial dvd and rip just one small section, say a 2 or 3 minute clip, from it and then copy it to the hard drive of my ILO. I tried using DVDDecrypter to rip the dvd into VOB files, but I can't seem to find a way to get them from my computer to a dvd to my ILO HD. Anyone?
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17. May 2006 @ 13:36 |
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why wouldn't you want the whole movie and you want just some clips from it.
Just get a dvd copy program and copy it using your computer then play it in your ilo.
It is too live life too the fullest then never lived at all.
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dayturner
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17. May 2006 @ 19:21 |
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another thing you can do if you have a regular dvd player is just play it through the ilo and hit record just before you get to the spot you want and then stop when it is done. If you get too much before or after, it is not difficult to separate the extra frames and delete them.
The Old One
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Nick2
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17. May 2006 @ 20:07 |
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I don't understand what you mean about using a regular dvd player. You mean to play the dvd in one player, attach the first player to my ILO, and attach the ILO to my tv?
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dayturner
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17. May 2006 @ 21:27 |
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use the red,white and yellow outlets from your dvd player and plug them into the front or rear inputs on the ILO, select whichever source you are using (there is a source button on your remote) and play it out your TV. If you are compiling various scenes, you could cut out the ilo hard drive by just recording direct to a dvd in the ilo. would suggest an rw as you might want to edit. This is not that difficult to figure out.
The Old One
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Nick2
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17. May 2006 @ 22:38 |
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Dayturner if you were a woman, and pretty, I'd give you a big wet one. What the hell, I'd even slip you some tongue! I've been beating my head against a wall for the longest time trying to figure out how to do that exact thing and here you are with the answer. I just got it hooked up and it works great! Thanks man, you da coolest!
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jfr2863
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23. August 2006 @ 16:21 |
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I own one. It works well if you use +R dvd blanks. It works best if you use DVD+RW. Then copy it with Nero to a blank dvd. Then it works like a Charm. Walmarts is sold out right now but I have another link that is not sold out.
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Nick2
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31. August 2006 @ 23:25 |
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Just when my little ILO wasn't giving me any trouble it had to remind me of all the crap I'd gone through to get it that way. Anyone know the best dvd blanks to use with this thing? I have been using Maxell and had a good track record, now I'm out of Maxells and have tried burning the same movie to three different blanks I had on hand--Verbatim 8x, Memorex 16x, Sony 8x--only to get the same response, "INVALID DISC". The Sony discs have never worked, but I expected the other two to come out alright. Maybe 16x is too much. Should I stick to 8x only? Even though Maxell works best, I can never find them on sale and they seem to be among the most costly. I got a great deal on the Memorex 16x but none of them have worked in the ILO so far. I can't figure out the problem with the Verbatim 8x discs, as they have worked before. Right now I'm defragmenting my HD, though I don't think that's going to help seeing that it isn't the HD I'm having trouble with. I tried running a disc cleaner (a disc with the little brushes on it) twice and it doesn't help. Anyone got any helpful hints before I finally drive a stake through this POS and sprinkle holy water on it?
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dayturner
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1. September 2006 @ 06:14 |
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Nick, you did not say if you were tryint to use Rs or RWs. My ILO has just plain quit on Rs. It always tries to read them as RWs and ruins them. I use to be able to get it to read Rs by running a cleaning disk cycle through it, but that has quit working so I use RWs exclusively in it now. I have been able, by watching the ads, to get RWs for around 40 cents quite often (Office Depot this week had 25 pack for 7.99 so I stocked up). If I want to make copies for someone else, I use the computer and copy them to Rs which, if finalized, play quite well in dvd players.
I am wondering if this technology may not be a little ahead of its time -- hard drive/dvd recording capability, that is. I have been watching for something to replace the ILO and while there use to be a lot of these HD/DVD recorders out there, I do not see many of them on the market any more and the ones I do see are somewhat expensive.
If I had my TV cable running to my computer room, I could record to the computer hard drive.
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1. September 2006 @ 09:44 |
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Thats easy just get a tv tuner about 30 - 50 dollars and you want too change that too HDD for hard drive since there is HDdvd players and soon too be recorder is HI Def.
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Nick2
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1. September 2006 @ 19:15 |
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Dayturner, I was referring to R media. Actually, the one dvd brand that seems to almost never fail is ESA DVD+R 8x, marketed by Circuit City I believe. I might have to stick to that brand. I also grabbed my cordless drill and pulled the cover off of the ILO, took the cover off of the dvd drive, and cleaned the optical lens with cotton swabs and rubbing alcohol. We'll see if that helps. I've never taken it apart in the 3 years I've had it so maybe that was what it needed. What I wonder is whether the ILO is restricted to 8x speed and below? Is a 16x speed disc too much for it? I note that there is never any trouble playing pre-recorded discs, such as those Netflix sends me. I also note that pre-recorded discs seem to usually, if not always, be of a silver finish on the write-to side instead of the usual dark purplish-blue or goldish-blue on most dvd r blanks. Maybe I should look for brands that stay in the silver area?
***** UPDATE: Last night I tried burning a movie to several different brands of dvd media--Memorex 16x, Sony 8x, Verbatim 8x--and none of them would play in my ILO. I mentioned above that I had taken my recorder apart and manually cleaned the optical lens with rubbing alcohol and cotton swabs. Well, surprise, all of those same burned DVD+R discs that I thought were wasted now work flawlessly. I just tried each of the discs that I had burned last night and they all started up and played perfectly. So, if your ILO doesn't want to play +r discs anymore, take it apart and clean it. Hell it even plays the Sony discs which it had NEVER played before even when it worked with the other brands! It appears that only running a disc cleaner through the drive (disc with small brushes on it) isn't enough, you actually have to break down and clean the lens with alcohol once every 2-3 years. Oh the pain.
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1. September 2006 @ 19:38 |
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I would like too know the color of your blank disk because all of mine are purple.
Really I have been buying blank DVD's foryears and they are all purple.
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Nick2
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2. September 2006 @ 09:55 |
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Mine are usually purple as well, but I'm wondering if that has anything to do with it since all pre-recorded discs seem to be of a silver finish and my ILO never has a problem playing them. But like I said above, after taking the recorder apart and cleaning the optical lens with alcohol I seem to have solved my problems. I was going to use a commercial glass cleaner but I notice that my car windshield hazes over in time after I treat it with a commercial glass cleaner and I didn't want that happening to the lens in the ILO and have to take it apart again.
P.S. Dayturner, I too have noticed a decline in dvd recorders with hard drives. What's up with that? Personally I would never contemplate purchasing one without a HD, yet I can find maybe one in Wal-Mart. Has ILO stopped supplying them to Wallyworld? As much as I complain about mine, and it gives me plenty of reason to, I would be lost without it. I'll never go back to VCRs.
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2. September 2006 @ 10:32 |
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There is one thing you shouldknow they discontinued this crappy dvd recorder the ilo.
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Nick2
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2. September 2006 @ 11:09 |
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Oh well.
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Nick2
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3. September 2006 @ 13:33 |
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anyone know of a source for free, good decrypters--besides DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink, I have those. Those two work pretty well, but I noticed that the new release "Inside Man" with Denzel Washington is protected by something immune to either of the aforementioned programs.
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dayturner
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3. September 2006 @ 14:32 |
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After looking around, it appears that Toshiba and Sony, at least, still make HD recorders with the Toshiba being the least expensive.
I have some memorex blank rws which are silver in color on the recording surface, as are my home depot house brand rws. Memorex rs and fugi rs seem to be pinkish while jvcs seem to be blue/purplish.
I saw an article which suggested there is a wide diversity of quality in blank dvd media. So far, I have had great luck buying whatever is on sale at home depot, compu usa, staples or office max.
Not only did Walmart discontinue the ILO, I think Lite-on, which made it has quit making HD recorders. Obviously, there is no American or Japanese technology for the Chinese to pirate on these things.
Nick, once you get the box open, how do you get at the laser light to do a manual cleaning of it?
The Old One
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Nick2
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3. September 2006 @ 15:51 |
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"Nick, once you get the box open, how do you get at the laser light to do a manual cleaning of it?"
After you take off the recorder's cover you'll notice the drive has a black plastic cover on it being retained by four small brass screws. Also, the drive will have a few inch-wide strips of copper ribbons on it. Simply pull the copper ribbons off, they're not really attached to anything. Take a screwdriver or a cordless drill and back out the four small brass screws, lift the black plastic cover and pull back and it comes right off.
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splitcom
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6. February 2007 @ 22:38 |
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My ILO crapped out on me.. Anyone else have this problem. Stop by ILOSUCKS.COM to read my story.. or post your own...
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Nick2
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15. February 2007 @ 17:20 |
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Most of my problems, and there were many, happened at the beginning of my ownership of my little ILO. Now days it seems to work just fine. It'll be a sad day in my household when the ILO finally goes toes up.
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