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I purchased a ILO DVDRO4 at Walmart for $150.00 which is said to be made by LiteOn.
I have had disc compatibility issues as follows: I recorded to a cheap offbrand DVD+R from a recorded movie on my DVR from Dish network on SP recording mode and the quality was bad, poor color satuation, washed out image and poor resolution of image.However the finalized disc was playable on my Emerson Combo DVD VCR. I recorded the same movie on the High Quality setting on the DVDRO4 and the image quality was excellent. At this speed you can only record for one hour then you have to use another disc for the last half of your recorded program.But the disc is not playable on my Emerson DVD combo. I tried this three times with the same result, gave up and recorded the last half of the movie and the disc containing the last half was playable on my Emerson DVD Combo.At the suggestion of an ILO tech I bought a 30 pack of Memorex DVD+R. These discs have the same problem, not playable at HQ speed on the Emerson.
Another problem is that I cannot get a stereo signal out of the DVD RO4. At the suggestion of a ILO tech I changed the RF input from the DVR to the DVDRO4 to a set of composite RCA cables. This did not help. In fact now I cannot get a signal from the DVR to my tv with this setup. The setup is as follows, RF cable from the Dish to the DVR, composite cables from the DVR to the DVDRO4 composite cables to the TV. Now the one disc playable on my Emerson does not give a stereo signal to the TV even though the DVDRO4 is marked as having a Dolby digital output. I have not hooked my coaxial sound cable yet but I assumed that since a stereo signal is transmitted to the DVDRO4 from the DVR that it would be recorded as stereo not mono.
My previous set up was: RF cable to the DVR from the dish, RF to the DVDRO4 and composite cables to the TV. Then I had the annoyance of switching the cables back and forth all the time each time I wanted to record on the DVDRO4.
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