Pioneer DVR-633H-S DVD Recorder With 160 GB Hard Drive
TVGuide Problems? Audio Problems?
I got this machine for christmas, TV Guide powered up within 2 days and this thing was awesome. But, after a month I noticed that some of my recordings halfway through would lose the stereo signal for about 5 - 10 minutes, very irritating especially if it was a recording I wanted to keep. Then, the Tv Guide stopped working, kept displaying No Data Available. I reset the recorder after 7 days of that by the instructions in the manual. After 7 more days and still nothing, I called Pioneer. The Customer Service Person told me it should display something within 24 hours just like it says, if not, call the cable company to see if they changed the Public Broadcast Cahnnel. I did that and everything was still the same, so the Customer Service Person told me to send it in for service. Well, I guess I'm glad the person that bought it for me also got a two year extended warranty. From the way these reviews are that I'm reading this machine will spend more time at the repair shop than at my house. Anyway, I've sent it in for repair. I'll see what happens. But, I'm very disappointed, my suggestion would be to buy another brand with a HDD, or wait till the next pionner generation model comes out to see if the bugs are worked out.