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Previously my point has been partially proven by Sony’s DVD recorders, the RDRGX3 ($AUS1,399) and the RDRGX7 ($AUS1,699), which support DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW, and the Toshiba D-R1 ($AUS1,499 — DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM), and any number of multi-format DVD burners for computers. But today a new consumer DVD recorder from LG Electronics<\/a> has just lobbed into my office. The LG DR4812W supports four<\/em> formats: DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW and DVD-RW. By ‘support’, I mean it will record to all four of them. I haven’t opened the box yet, so I don’t know how well it does this, but this remains an impressive achievement. The price looks good too, at $999, and this includes a DV input which many entry level models don’t have. Okay, I just got it out of the box and it looks a lot more attractive than my picture implies, with a mirrored lower half. One downside on facilities: the back panel video input is composite video only. There is S-Video, but this is only on the front panel, which leads to ugly cabling if you want to leave it permanently connected to a digital TV receiver for recording.<\/p>\nCome 20 May, LG’s DR4922W will come out at $1,099. This one adds a slot for various flash memory cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the last couple of years I’ve been arguing that the multitude of recordable DVD formats (DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM) do not threaten a repeat of the Beta\/VHS wars of two decades ago. To put it simply, unlike the … Continue reading