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The Lite-On LVW-5045 DVD Recorder is worth reading about

Lite-On LVW-5045 DVD Recorder (Reviewed 9/4/05) The Lite-On LVW-5045 DVD Recorder has a 160-gigabyte (GB) hard drive and features the Lite-ON “AllWrite” technology, (a Lite-On feature that lets you record on four disc formats: DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW).

This DVD recorder lets you mark chapters and “hide” them during playback which is excellent for editing commercials.

You mark a block of commercials as a chapter and designate it as “hidden” so the ads are skipped on playback. Be warned this editing is proprietary so it’s useless for playback on non Lite-On products.

The workaround is to do your editing on the hard drive. Once you have the final cut you burn your DVD and the commercials will be edited out.

The Lite-On LVW-5045 DVD Recorder capture recordings to its hard drive and then lets you dub them to DVD at high speed. The high-speed dubbing from HDR to DVD is fast.

You can burn a one hour episode to a high speed 8x or 4x) DVD (in the1-hour HQ mode) in less than twenty minutes (excellent PQ). Using the LP mode the same episode can be burned in about five minutes (average PQ).

With the Lite-On LVW-5045 DVD Recorder you can high speed dub from the DVD to the HDR. The high-speed dubbing process captures everything to the HD— menus, soundtracks, subtitles, camera angles, with the right software available from the internet you can copy any DVD.

The drawback on the Lite-On LVW-5045 DVD Recorder is that it doesn’t record on dual-layer discs (it won’t allow you to change recording modes while dubbing). Unfortunately, unlike other DVD/HDR combos, there’s no real-time, normal-speed dubbing between the hard disk and DVD.

The LVW-5045 has a typical set up. You connect the inputs and outputs, set the clock, and run the automatic channel-finding feature for the built-in TV tuner.

The Lite-On LVW-5045 DVD Recorder lacks the electronic program guide so it's not so easy to time-shift but there is a work-around for this. Almost all cable boxes today allow the user to program the cable box to switch channels according to a timed schedule for many weeks in advance.

Once you have programmed the Lite-On LVW-5045 to record “the what” and “the when” you program the cable box to channel switch with a corresponding schedule. Not as easy as TIVO but still simple to do and no monthly fee.

The Lite-On LVW-5045 DVD Recorder is a fine DVD recorder that is excellent at high speed dubbing. It’s missing the EPG but there is a workaround. If you need the EPG look for the review on this site for the higher end Pioneer or Panny.

Connections:

inputs/outputs i.Link (FireWire) input front-panel composite-video input composite/S-video inputs and outputs component-video output (switchable between interlaced and progressive-scan) coaxial and optical digital audio outputs RF input/feedthrough output rear outputs composite/S-video with stereo audio optical digital audio