Welcome to UK DVD Recorders, the top guide to DVD recorders available online in the UK. On this web site you will find all of the information about DVD recorders that you could ever need and also lots of links to shops where you can buy a DVD recorder.
We maintain a database of DVD recorders from all of the top online shops and so we can easily display lots of DVD recorders on each page, we also list them with the cheapest first so that it is easy to find cheap DVD recorders here. The prices of DVD recorders have been coming down allot recently so it is quite easy to find the cheap deals, we make it allot easier to find the cheap DVD recorders though as you can compare the prices of the top shops here.
So why would you want to buy a DVD recorder? Well you know how much better DVD's are than video cassettes and analogue television so the main benefit is being able to record in that quality onto a blank DVD disc. The quality of DVD is digital and so much better than of a video recorder, the source will have to be digital though such as digital television to get the best recording results.
Disc Formats
There are several different formats of blank DVD and DVD recorders can use different types so you need to know about the different formats.
Firstly there are blank DVD discs that can be written to only once (DVD-R) and blank discs that can be written to over and over again (DVD-RW) so you have to consider if you will want to re-record over your recorded material at any time when you choose which blank disc to choose for your recording.
Then there are different types of actual disc, for the re-writable discs there are DVD-RW and DVD-RAM with the DVD-RW discs being the most compatible with DVD recorders and current DVD players but the DVD-RAM discs are better for editing.
And to make things just a bit more confusing there is also a different DVD-RW format called DVD+RW which some DVD recorders use so again check before you buy.
Hard Drives
There are also DVD recorders that have a hard drive built in and these are much better as they offer so much more in the way of storage. A hard drive can hold much more than a blank DVD and is also allot easier to use as you do not have to worry about blank media, you can also transfer recordings from your hard drive onto a DVD should you wish to share it or keep a permanent copy of it.
The important thing with a hard drive is it's size, the larger it is the more you will be able to record onto it and they can fill up fast (especially if you are recording long films of football matches). The smallest you can buy is usually 80 Gigabytes (GB) which offers a good amount of space but there are also 160GB and 250GB hard drives available which offer much more space, they will cost more but are well worth the extra money due to the huge amount of recording space.
A hard drive also offers some other amazing features such as the ability to pause live television which is an incredible feature, when you press pause the DVD recorder automatically starts recording the programme and then plays it back when you press play. It then keeps recording and playing back as you watch so that you never hit the end of the recording, you can also fast forward and rewind in this live pause state as you are watching from the hard drive and not the live broadcast.
Freeview
Digital television is also available with many DVD recorders in the form of Freeview and this is also an excellent feature as it means you can record in the high quality digital format and also enjoy this quality when you are watching the television.
A Freeview digital tuner also makes your recording easier as you can often simply select programmes from the Freeview menu and press the record button so that the programme will be recorded instead of having to set time and channel information.
Some DVD recorders also have two Freeview digital tuners so that you can record two programmes at once or watch one while you record another, you can also do this if you already have a Freeview digital tuner in your television or set top box.
