Humax DRT800 DVD-R/RW Recorder/TiVo Series2 DVR Combo
Low Quality, Poor Support
I'm in the process of returning two of these units.  The first was purchased new and immediately acted up. The DVD would not play through the composite connections, and through the component connections many stations would \\"drop out\\" to a gray screen & silence for approx. 1 second.  This repeats randomly, often in \\"clusters\\" and only on live - buffered display was not affected.  Humax offered to replace the unit but indicated that \\"they were required by law\\" to tell me that it might be a refurbished or repaired unit (not to worry, they are usually new).  The refurbished unit that arrived to replace my week-old new unit was worse than the first.  This one failed to aquire the Tivo guide information and constantly froze and/or pixilated live tv.  When it re-cycled it's start-up sequence to get program information, it didn't make it through the TIVO connection process and began to constantly re-cycle itself, finally refusing to come out of the \\"Starting Up, please wait\\" mode, even after a hard restart (unplugging).  My brother reported that the unit he ultimately returned would also suddenly freeze and pixilate repeatedly in live, buffered or recorded modes.  The picture quality and the response time to remote commands were never as good as my TIVO model (to which I have returned).