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Technical Details

DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD video, CD-DA, CD-R, CD-RW playback compatibility.
DVD-R, DVD-RW recording capability
Up to 340 hours of recording time
160Gb hard disc drive
Nicam 6 head twin speed VCR.

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Boxed-product Weight: 11 Kg
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Item model number: HDR-B2735
ASIN: B000ULKCEI
Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 1 Aug 2007

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 62,130 in Electronics & Photo (See Bestsellers in Electronics & Photo)
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This is a video recorder, a DVD recorder and a hard disc recorder all in one unit. There is a forty nine key remote control and once the unit is plugged in everything can be controlled from the remote apart from inserting/removing videos and DVD's. The front of the unit has a total of 17 buttons but all there controls are duplicated on the remote. The unit has a blue, a green and an orange light to tell you which mode you are in and these are repeated on the remote control to allow easy swapping between VCR, DVD and HDD. Setting a timer program is very easy - one touch on the remote - brings an easy to follow screen where single or multiple programs can be set, it also has a countdown figure in the corner to tell you how much space you have and this of course changes according to which of the various modes you are in. This has a sixty eight hour - in SP mode - hard disc the actual hard disc size is 160GB In the centre of the face of the unit is a 9x3 LCD display, when switched off this displays a very readable clock along with a red marker if any timed events are set. When recording it displays an six digit counter that in theory could allow a 99hour 59minute and 59second recording. This unit can record from an external Freeview, Cable or Skybox When a timed programme is five minutes from due it will turn the unit on and this also tunes to the AV channel - a slight annoyance - but you can quickly switch back to what you were watching. Several modes to increase the recording time are available, the normal SP or LP with video, DVD and HDD have a total of six modes so a DVD that would store around four hours on 'LP' could store anywhere between one hour and ten hours. The stated figures for the HDD range from 34 to 340. I found the SP 68 hours as good as a professional DVD.

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5.0 out of 5 stars real find, 10 Aug 2007

By	J. C. Heley "FAN" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Funai HD-B2735 has proven to be a real find. Even on the 'SP' setting, the picture quality on my HDD and DVD-RW recordings has been excellent.

If you don't want to spend too much money, and you don't mind having something that looks like a top-loading vcr (circa 1985) sitting under your tv, I'd really recommend it.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Very Picky About Recordable DVDs, Fiddly Recording, 5 Jul 2008

By	H. C. Merritt "henry3339" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This machine is a great idea, but several niggles keep it from being what it should be. The set-up is automatic, but then leaves you to sort out the ordering of channels manually with the remote. I bought this to transfer ageing tapes to DVD and this is where the real problems come in. It won't accept many DVD-RWs (probably about half are rejected for no apparent reason, and I have been using the recommended Maxell ones). And then there is the Macromedia "function". If the machine detects a Macromedia copy-protect signal on a tape, it simply switches off the recording session, whether to HDD or to DVD. I suppose the implicit meaning is that I should buy a DVD of a videotape I already own.

Recording from Freeview is much more fiddly than it should be, as the unit itself is a purely analogue one, rather than a digital one: it has to treat the Freeview box as a satellite box. I suspect I should have bought a DVD recorder on its own and linked it to my older video, rather than going for this all-in-one unit. It certainly would have been cheaper, and probably wouldn't be so fussy about the DVDs it will deign to record. My wife's Humax PVR runs rings around it for ease of use and for functions.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Great At First, 24 Jun 2008

By	Alex Warburton (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this product around 14 months ago now, and it has always been great ever since I bought it. The HDD recordings are of fantastic quality, and the overall simplicity of the machine is great once you have set it up.

However just recently it has being making funny noises, even when it is switched off. I rang technical support for the product at Funai but they couldnt solve the problem. After my third call to them they explained to me that the hard drive in the unit had most likely failed, and the product only came with a 12 month warranty, so there was nothing they could do. Now it has affected the whole unit and DVD's take longer to load etc.

I dont know if I have just been unlucky with this one, but beofre the fault took place I would award the product with 4 or 5 stars. Shame it broke but I would definatly buy this product if I were you. Good Luck!

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