Ellion DVR-900 DVD Recorder

I took a bit of a gamble buying this as the last Dvd recorder I bought from elsewhere packed in after a day and I read a few reviews in this Model which was both good and bad, my experience is that it's very easy to use, the remote is the same layout as my old Sanyo Dvdr home theatre system , I bought the dvd-rw discs from Aldi and they worked perfectly , I would recomend anyone buying this player as it's a great buy and for the price , you can't go wrong

After reading some positive reviews about this DVD recorder,I decided to buy one.Usually I go for a brand I've heard of & can trust.Who has heard of Ellion??As the saying goes 'you get what you pay for' which is very appropriate here.The player looks good & comes with all the whistles & bells a good recorder has.BUT...it is so slow!!I've missed several programmes waiting for it to format a new disc then decide there's a error with the disc.Sometimes the only way to get out of a command that is taking ages,is to pull the plug.I've even left it overnight only to see the next morning that it is still trying to format a new disc.This machine will have you tearing your hair out it's so frustrating!Maybe I should try some other brand of discs before condemning it but there is very little I can recommend about this machine in my experience of it so far.AVOID!

Ellion DVD Recorder, Model DVR900.

Placed a bid for this basic DVD recorder, and was successful. Good communication from seller, and item arrived well packed and within stated time. All complete within the box as listed. Although supposed to be a cosmetic return, and refurbished, I couldn't find a mark on it and it looks completely brand new to me.

Set-up with the Instructions was simple, although being a basic model, it has a couple of foibles that newer more sophisticated units won't have - like you have to manually select the signal source and the Quality (recording quality) each time before Recording. On playback the rig showed everything I could throw at it, commercial movies, home movies, DVD and CD discs of all types and from different computer sources and other recorders.

On record, I had a couple of compatibility issues with discs, it really doesn't like unbranded cheapie DVD+R or DVD+RW discs and seems preferably 16x at that! The Instructions regarding Titling are a bit vague, and so far I haven't been able to Edit the Title on a disc - meaning I can't change the screen from showing "Title 1" to, let's say "Die Hard 24" or whatever the name is of the movie itself. Once finalized however, the discs will play on everything else I have around, two computers, a hand held DVD player, two other DVD machines I have - so no complaints there.

Overall, within it's limitations (Model came out around 2005) and for the money it's a great VFM buy! I paid about the same, including shipping, as a cheap player ONLY on the High Street. I should add (shhhh!) if you set it up to record from a VCR, it's happy to make DVD's of so-called protected VHS tapes as well as home movies.

READ the Instructions - you'll save yourself a lot of hassle!!

This DVD recorder is quite big and bulky, but thats not really a problem, if you are paying a low amount of money for it. Swtiching it on and setting most of it up is quite easy with lots of buttons on the remote to help you but actually getting the recording source from the TV to show on the player is very tricky. I spent an hour setting it up, plugging various wires into different bits then switching it off and changing it round and still havn't figured out how to do it. The instructions it comes with arn't very helpful either. Unless you are a very technicnal person it's probably worth forking out a bit extra and get more expensive DVD recorder that is simpiler to set up.

this dvd recorder is brilliant i normally have the liteon ones but got fed up of them playing up so decided to get this one and its brilliant it recordes nice and fast and it picks the discs up really fast and it is really quite as well a brillant piece of kit