Home > Consumer Reviews > Lite-On LVW-1105HC Dual Format Multi-region Capable Multi Region capable DVD Recorder

For the price I supose this is a good buy.

Early days yet but quality of recording seems ok on the higher settings.

ONE BIG PROBLEM : This is a dual +/- machine and mine will only record on DVD RW- formats and wont record on DVD RW +

Im sure this should not happen and have emailed Lite-On but sadly have had no reply

DVDR both types is fine.

Have transfered lots of video on to disc using this machine and I must say it is fantastic.

Very compact machine and other than the DVDRW+ problem seems fine.

Further to the previous review, I shall list the good and bad points.

Good points:

It can use any format DVD (DVD-/+R or DVD-/+RW) etc

It can be formatted as multi-region with help from the internet

It's small size is useful for those with space limitations

It's reasonably priced.

Bad points:

The picture quality is VERY POOR. (I have connected my cable box via scart into the unit and the picture degradation is terrible). This detracts a great deal from the veiwing pleasure.

The description says that it can record up to 6 hours. This is if you use the super extended recording quality, which leaves you with a VERY POOR quality of recording. The Standard recording mode gives up about 2 hours, and is barely acceptable for a machine of this day and age. If you use the high quality, you get about 1 hour tops.

The remote control is very cheap and flimsy, and WHY OH WHY is it a dreadful white colour when the rest of the unit is silver?????

Do yourself a favour, spend a few extra quid and buy a branded unit, you won't regret it.

I have had this little DVD player/recorder for 4 months now and it works better and does more than models 4 times its price. It is small compact and does what it says on the box. I give it 5 stars for size, functions and quality of build and recording/playback. Why pay up to £400 for a 'brand name' machine or something with a hard drive when this little machine plays and records every disc going AND is multi-region! Ignore the niggly comments and bad reviews this is ace. get one now!

I recently purchased this DVD writer (LVW-1105HC+ version) and, although it's early days, it seems to be quite good. It is a bit picky about discs. The single DVD+RW disc that came with the recorder worked fine...but the pack of Philips DVD-RW (the ones in the slimline cases) that I purchased didn't work. I swapped these for Philips DVD+RW of the same type and these seem to work fine.

I've only used the recorder on High Quality and Standard Quality and both seem really good. Playback is fine and record quality is very good. I purchased this recorder as I wanted to transfer a few old videos to DVD and it seems to work fine for this. Don't make the mistake that I did of putting the onscreen timer on my video on as this will be recorded by the DVD recorder as well as the picture! Which doesn't help much...

The only problem I've had is that the Auto Index feature doesn't seem to work...but it's not the end of the world...a single index frame for a movie is all you need anyway. Overall, for the money it's pretty good..bearing in mind DVD recorders were about £300 last year. I might update this review when I've played about with it..but so far seems ok.

Purchased this DVD recorder on 23rd April, depsite a few problems being unable to track it via the Amazon website, it arrived promptly a few days later.

Very small sized dvd-recorder, is around the size of an A4 sheet of paper. I purchased it to replace a VCR and its a lot lot smaller than that. I have connected it up to my NTL cable box and TV etc.

I purchased 10 TDK DVD-RW's also and they have been very good, also they have the advantages of that you don't have to finalize them before you play on any other DVD player.

One problem, I did have is that the recordings REFUSE to play on my iBook with Apple's DVD Player. This DVD recorder records them as a DVD-VR format which does not play using DVD player. It plays perfectly fine on PowerDVD on the PC, just not on my iBook. The only way to get around this is to convert them into normal DVD format which is a bit annoying.

The quality is more than acceptable on the 2 hour setting and I cannot notice any significant quality loss when compared to video which I was used to.

Only other problem I have encountered is that, the box will lose its time setting if switched off at the plug - I didn't realise this and missed a timed recording of the Apprentice- grrr...

Other than those 2 slight hiccups, so far, I have been happy with this. It has replaced the VCR and has very many advantages over that old technology. And at this great price from Amazon you can't go wrong!. If your looking for a cheap DVD-recorder to replace those old tapes then this would be an ideal buy.