Humax DRT800 DVD-R/RW Recorder/TiVo Series2 DVR Combo
Well... It has its few quirks and slight problems, but...
I had the same problem that alot of people here had/have, where the remote works fine and then after 2-4 weeks suddenly gets sluggish and makes you want to throw it and the tivo through a window. I even called Humax to get a replacement remote, and they were supposed to send one out but never did... <br /> <br />That didn't matter to me since the day after I had called, I took a nice pair of AA batteries (cheap walgreens ones) and stuck them into the remote and voila! Everything was back to normal, no more lagging, no more having to be right in front of the box and pressing the button a million times for it to respond. <br /> <br />I had taken out the batteries and re-inserted them and tried the batteries from our previous tivo remote, but hadn't actually tried any others by the time I called Humax (and they asked if I had replaced the batteries which I had done, but just not with another fresh pair from where I buy them). <br /> <br />So I am guessing that while the remotes and IR sensors may be a little bad, the main problem (or at least it was for me) was the batteries that they had sent with the unit itself... <br /> <br />As for burning DVDs and such, I have had a few failed burnings... <br /> <br />It doesn't like burning things in Basic mode for me, and sometimes the recording just got some kind of glitch/error while recording and no matter what you try to burn it on it won't do it (or will on a DVD-rw as the only episode to then move it to a computer).   <br /> <br />We have had ours for a year and a half and I have burned many things (movies, and easily over a dozen tv series) and have only had problems with 2 Alias episodes, and 2 other failed to burn movies.  But in normal circumstances, these DVDs would not only play back perfectly in the tivo DVD player, but on any of our other 7 dvd player items in the apartment (2 desktop computers, one laptop, one portable dvd player, 2 Xboxes, and our old standalone DVD player from before we had the Humax). We haveused Memorex DVD's and even the nice and cheap Office Depot Brand DVD-R/DVD-RW's... which work great and are priced to afford plus have a Office Depot quarantee to work (can bring back to them if it doesn't).