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I plan to use mine as a way to record favorite shows and an occasional movie. Basically as a high tech VCR with cheaper, smaller media that doesn't degrade (to the eye/ear of the viewer) over time like a VHS tape. The DiVX playback feature is one I really wanted because of the popularity of that format on home-made/encoded videos found online.

FYI. officemax has the lite-on lvw-1105hc today fir 69 after rebates. I was the first to grab one this morning when officemax opened. I dont know how big the draw was for these, but compared to the other choices of dvd recorders this one seems to be excellent. It plays DIVX (read: movies you download from the internet) which no other dvd recorders on sale today do. it is dual format (records to dvd-r and dvd+r plus dvdrw). If you are still shopping for one, I'd check with officemax to see if they have any left.

I'd go with the stanley too. If the tools inside are like other stanley tools I've used, that is a great bonus.

If it's advertised as a DVD writer or DVD burner than it will do that. I haven't seen any dvd burners lately that don't write to both DVD +/- R.

Thanks, this is a good deal. $5 after shipping...

If you buy the computer, download a program called "Cpuz" (google it) which will tell you exactly what type of ram you have. You can then buy matching ram of any size (512 would be good, you could also go with a 1gb but it would be overkill) from newegg or countless other places including at best buy or circuit city or frys. One new 512 chip + the original 256 would give you 784 which is good. In case you didn't know, the motherboard has 2 slots in it for memory. one contains the 256, the other is empty, which is where the 512 goes. memory is very easy to install, just line up the notch and press it into place, then swing the little tabs over each end (you'll see how easy..) when you ask about the gigabyte, I think you mean the hard drive. the hard drive it comes with will be more than enough! your camera will work fine too. if you don't have the original CD that came with it (with the drivers) you can surely download them online. In personal defense of emachines- my last 2 computers have been emachines and never gave me a problem. My dad had one for 3 years with no problems. My mom has one now with no problems. I guess like with anything, some people have problems and some dont.

Wow, good idea! I was going to try best buy for Call of Duty 2 for PC for $25, but I can just go to walmart now (much closer to home; don't know about differences in crowding)..

umm, have you seen the reviews for this thing? I hope you're good with the electrical tape you'll need to fix the poor stitching.

The difference is that the store is a place for people to go to buy (insert item here) and its very concievable that the store would sell all the stock if truly people were only buying 1 (or whatever they needed for non-resale use). By you standing in line and taking the stock for your own resale use, you are depriving people at the end of the line from getting the item. They must go through you, or elsewhere, to get it, and pay a premium, because you horded them. In other words, your contention that the people who buy your item are not willing to do anything more than clicking their mouse, is wrong because they may be the same people standing at the end of the line who went there to make an honest purchase but could not since you bought them.

Is the ad search feature still available on the main BF page here? I don't seem to see it in the "lite" version. It was great and the linked items separated this site from the others. Now there's not even ad search anymore ??

Yep, that's there to discourage hording but I don't think anyone is going to look too closely at it. If they collect your address info with a computer at the time of sale, I'd be worried about the computer flagging the 2nd sale because of a duplicate address, but if not I wouldn't worry. Happy hording. :)

I had bad experience with a cyberhome 1600 as well. Mine had a bad picture, and beyond that would not work with any media I tried in it so I returned it. Even if the media did work, the picture quality would have made me take it back. the samsung at BB has mixed reviews. I am looking at the Lite-on that's going to be on sale at Officemax. I believe it will record to DVD+-R as well as play DIVX. All of the DVD recorders Ive looked at lately have burned to DVD-RWs. There is no DVD+RW recorder yet AFAIK, just DVD-RW. If your recorder burns only +R or -R, the only thing you have to know is that's the type of media to put in it..

Having not doorbusted on any BF before... Should I expect a big line at officemax? They open at 7am. There's a DVD recorder I've got my eye on and would like to get my mitts on. Thanks

trutech? If you google trutech dvd recorder you'll see the target site with the 99 price as well as 8 reviews. Looks like something to steer clear of.

I was at walmart this morning talking to an employee in the electronics department. She said they open one entrance at 5am, and she used the word "stampede". She also said some kid got hurt last year in the "stampede". I'm really not sure if I'm going there for the laptop or not. If I do go with the aim of getting a laptop, I can tell you I'll make it to the electronics department pretty fast :)

back to the topics of DVD recorders though :) 1)anyone know if the sears daewoo DVD recorder plays DIVX?. The british daewoo site shows a very similar looking recorder which DOES playback DIVX, so I'm hoping that's a good sign. 2)anyone have a very clear officemax ad/picture? the one posted here is not very clear, but from what I can see it looks to be a 1105HC and NOT an 1101. The 1105HC does play DIVX.. could be a good sign but does anyone have any specific info on the Officemax $69 AR recorder?

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That's a DVD burner, and there are some on sale. Search for "burner" on the blackfriday main page.. http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/

ghost- you say "no tapes" but what exactly wiill you be making copies of? A dvd recorder is not a good idea to make copies of dvds if that's what you had in mind - you would buy a DVD burner for your computer if you want to do that. If you want to transfer tapes to DVDs, or record TV programs/movies to DVDs, that's when you'd get a DVD recorder.

outnumbered- you don't need to buy a combo dvd recorder/vcr if you already have a VCR. just use one of the inputs on the DVD recorder for your VCR output (could either be RCA cables for A/V or a single coaxial cable. When you want to record, just tune your DVD recorder to either channel 3/4 (depending on what your VCR channel out is set to) if you are using a coax cable, or A/V input if you're using RCA cables, then you should see your VCR output on your screen and can record from there. I dont' know much of camcorders but some of them have firewire output and some DVD recorders have firewire input. In that case it's a simple connection.. even with RCA A/V cables it's a simple connection though. I don't believe that you can hook a DVD player to a DVD recorder to record copy protected movies. If you are playing a de-copy protected DVD in your player, it might have the possibility of recording but would not have the possiblity of recording if the DVD is copy-protected. This is just my understanding and I could be wrong. Best way to make movie DVD copies would be to use a computer DVD burner which can rip, re-encode, then burn the movie. I use a combination of DVD decrypter to rip, then CloneDVD to encode and burn.