Liteon DVD Recorder LVW-5007

Liteon DVD Recorder LVW-5007

Product Description
Product Description:
Records From TV,VCR or Camcorders to DVD Discs, Records DVD+R or DVD+RW Media, Subscription free Interactive Program Guide, User freindly Easy Guider Menu, DV Link Digital Camcorder Connector, Progressive Scan output.

Liteon DVD Recorder LVW-5007
Average customer rating:

lousey service

Echoing Steinberg, Great Doorstop

Very good basic DVD+R recorder with easy upgradeability

Great recorder, but some drawbacks

Great doorstop!

Liteon DVD Recorder LVW-5007

Manufacturer: Liteon
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Transfers Memorable Home Videos to Long-Lasting DVD Discs.

Built in Interactive Programming Guide By TV Guide no Subscription Required!!!

ASIN: B00081NSVY

Product Description

Records From TV,VCR or Camcorders to DVD Discs, Records DVD+R or DVD+RW Media, Subscription free Interactive Program Guide, User freindly Easy Guider Menu, DV Link Digital Camcorder Connector, Progressive Scan output.

Customer Reviews:

lousey service.......2007-02-19

I sent a 5007 to Liteon for repair under warranty in July of 2006 and have never received it back yet. I got a e-mail in Autust saying it was in testing but still no unit. About Sept 2006 I called tech support and ask them about the unit. They said they were having trouble with their shipping dept, but I would soon arrive. Here it is Feb 2007, and they still have the dvd recorder. They have to have the WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER.

Echoing Steinberg, Great Doorstop.......2006-12-16

The recorder worked fine for about two months. Then it stopped recognizing blank disks.1) Called customer service, which for Liteon is an oxymoron. Told me it would only take certain brands of disks. It did -- for about two weeks.
Repeat 1), told me I needed to update firmware. I did. It worked for about one month.
Now it is a playback machine which will playback some but not all discs, and will not recognize blank discs of any brand, and hence will record nothing.

Very good basic DVD+R recorder with easy upgradeability.......2006-02-23

This unit is out of production, but is still available new at Sears for $100 (some stores).

The really big pluses it has are that it easy to upgrade to region free, 3h record mode (recording as good as 2h mode), and Macrovision-free using the firmware writing programs from Mr. Wizard on the internet, free. The last two let you convert the VHS tapes you own to DVD's...an excellent capability. The quality of the copies is identical to the source, even in 3h mode, and using the Liteon is far better and easier than doing this with a capture device and you PC.

I have also done transfers of digital channel captures from a Tivo DVR with excellent results. Same for Firewire captures from a Digital 8 camcorder.

The TV Guide Plus feature is OK, but nowhere near Tivo in ease of use.

I have used Verbatim, TDK, Memorex, and OfficeMax DVD+R blanks with no trouble. The recorder is pickier about DVD+RW's.

The remote is very simple, but adequate.

For $100 plus $15 for a two year service contract, this thing is peerless. The up-scale brands like Panasonic or Sony have nicer remotes and (maybe) better reliability, but no TV Guide Plus, no macrovision-free, no region-free, no 3h mode. Too many negatives for very little benefit plus higher cost.

Great recorder, but some drawbacks.......2005-12-30

I purchased this DVD recorder on Ebay from Sears as a clearance item. It was an impulse buy but so far I have been very pleased. The first thing I did was to upgrade the firmware. It took a couple of trys because the unit is fussy. I then set up the machine by teloing it my zip code, the time and ect. Then I set it to record Ice Age off TV and left for vacation.
I came back from vacation to a pleaseant surprise. Ice Age had recorded perfectly and all of my TV listings (including a few Canadian stations) had been downlaoded onto my machine. Wow! it's just like the listings on my old satillite reciever only I do not have to pay for them!
Now for the nit-picks...
Their is a slight amount of snow when I view a TV signal through the unit to my TV. However, the DVD record and play clear. Could be a setup issue but I do not know. I have my antenna go into the unit, then it outputs S-video and L&R audio to one of the aux inputs to my TV. I also have an rf cable running from the usit to my tv so I can use my TV tuner. Picture is fine when the unit is off. Not a big deal because I watch TV with the TV tuner, DVD tuner is for recording which it does just fine.
The sound is just so-so. I think it only records and TV in mono. It seems I have turn up my TV some when viewing TV or a recorded DVD through the DVD recorder. I could get around this by using my TV as a source to record from but that just adds complication to my setup and I don't think it's worth the hassle.
When setting up the unit, I had to set the clock. What's up with that? It downloads the TV listing info of the air...with the times they are on...why can't it be smart enough to set it's own clock with this info? Seems strange to me.
Now for a couple of cool things...
Recordings done on DVD+RW will play in other DVD players without being finalized. At least in my Philips player they will. This is great because I can lend them to friends or record from another DVD player to get out the commercials.
Firewire input - I can record from my digital camcorder with no image loss. I bought the cheapest firewire cable I could find ($5 off Ebay) and it works fine. The video displayed as you are recording is choppy and the sound cuts in and out but the resulting DVD is fine. I was able to fit two hours of DV tape onto one DVD without sacrificing quality.

4/12/06 Update: I'm still very pleased with my recorder. I've installed the revised firmware to disable the macrovision, enable LP (3hr) mode and make it region free. No macrovision is great, it's nice to be able to back up kids DVDs. The 3 hr mode is OK, but DVDs recorded this way will not play correctly in my other DVD player. I could care less about the region free thing since I don't travel the world picking up DVDs to watch as I go.
The recorder can be moody at times. It can lock up, sometimes to the point where it must be unplugged or run the system restore. When I do this, the clock displays the wrong time and cannot be set. It resets to the correct time after being turned off for one night to allow the TV guide to update. Annoying, but I can live with it.

Great doorstop!.......2005-10-02

This product is not worth anyones' money. It has not gone for more than week without something going wrong. Refuses to recognize previously recorded discs,declaring them either invalid or blank. This includes those just recorded by it! Will freeze up when the menu button is touched. A circle with a slash in it will appear and it will not acknowledge any remote (or on unit) button at all. This unit is a piece of trash! Would rate it 0 stars if possible. I'm going to RCA or magnavox for my next recorder.

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