Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88166 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Lite-On
• Model: HD-A740GX
• Released on: 2006-06-21

Manufacturer's Description
Creating your own media collection is easy and fast with Lite-On HDD/DVD recorders. Take advantage of the high-capacity hard drive and the intuitive Easy Guider" menu to store and manage your TV recordings, DV footage, music tracks and digital photos in just a few steps.

HDD Video Recording - Forget about the running out of recording space. With the built in 160GB HDD (Hard Disk Drive), you may record up to 198 hours of quality video programs on it.

HDD to Disc Backup - The coexistence of the optical disc drive and the built-in HDD on HD-A740GX doesn't stay for nothing! With it, you can record the camcorder footages onto the built-in HDD all at once. In there, you can utilize all the editing functions to the titles and then save them onto discs respectively to share them with family or friends.

Disc to HDD Copy - The contents on any types of disc by copying them to the built-in HDD, where all the editing functions can be utilized. This not only solves the problem that certain editing functions are only applicable to certain disc types but also is convient given the huge storage space of the HDD.

Timeshift - Advance feature such as "Time Shift", is also featured on HD-A740GX. The "Time Shift" feature allows you to virtually "Freeze" the live TV program while you are temporary interrupted and "Un-Freeze" it to continue viewing the live program.

DV Link - Connect a DV Camcorder to the "DV Link" to easily archive camcorder footages digitally in DVD quality to a DVD recordable disc that lasts. Moreover, the on-screen DV Control panel allows basic commands over the DV camcorder using HD-A740GX's remote control.

DivX® is one of the world's most popular high-compression MPEG-4 video technology, with DivX® files available on PCs and networks worldwide. HD-740GX plays all versions of DivX® video (including DivX®) with standard playback of DivX® media files.

Easy Guider - Our unique Easy Guider Menu navigates you through the process of basic functions, like record and playback, on a step-by-step basis. This graphic-based Easy Guider provides error-free recording and is suitable for users of all ages. You can follow the icons to start your recording!

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Customer Reviews

Awsome!
Brilliant! This is the best way to describe this piece of kit.

When I read some of the reviews about some of the Liteon products, I was a little worried and nearly went for one of the Sony models. However, I am so glad I didn't. You get more for your money with Liteon. I saw some reviews of Liteon HDD/DVD recorders crashing, but so far mine has been fine despite a couple of powercuts "mid recording". Bellieve me, I have done a lot of recording!

This machine is all singing, all dancing. It does everything you need. I am currently in the process of putting all my home videos onto dvd - another great use.

So if you are umming and ahhing, my recommendation is try it. Hopefully you will be as happy with your new HDD/DVD recorder as I am.

Brilliant Piece of Kit
I have owned one of these machines for a couple of months now, and find it brilliant. I've given it a 'good hammering' in terms of made lots of recordings to the hard disk (mainly using video plus+)and done lots of editing of pre-recorded programmes to remove adverts etc. This has worked flawlessly. In the first couple of weeks, I had one 'hang' when the box seized up and I had to power-off at the mains, but it recovered from this. I have since downloaded the latest firmware from the Liteon website and have had no problems since (whether or not I already had the latest version I don't know... did'nt seem anyway to tell!)
One note of caution... when you enter 'Disc Tools' and select HDD, don't then accidentally hit the enter button, as you will erase all programs from the HDD... would have been nice to have had a 'confirm' option to stop this occuring!

Amazing DVD/HDD Recorder
Wow, with this i can finally save simpsons, lost and millions of other tv shows. Amazing because you can copy DVDs to the Hard Drive and Stuff you recorded from tv to dvds, wow!

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