Remanufactured HUMAX DRT800F DVD Recorder with TiVo

by Humax

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 19 x 9 x 16 inches
• Shipping Weight: 17 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009I9R84
• Item model number: DRT800F
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,297 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 9, 2005

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The remanufactured Humax 80-hour DVD recorder with TiVo is the most advanced way to watch and record TV. This full-featured, three-in-one product includes a powerful, 80-hour TiVo Series2 DVR, a progressive scan DVD player, and an easy-to-use DVD recorder. Thanks to the integrated TiVo service, you'll never have to struggle with videotape again. And when you're ready to get mobile or create an archive, you can burn a DVD using the same intuitive TiVo interface. Finally, you can digitally transfer movies from your digital camcorder to the unit's hard drive through the front FireWire input. Once saved, you can easily burn your home movies to DVD for ever-lasting memories.

Features

• Easy to use: TiVo service makes burning DVDs as easy as recording a program
• Archive previously recorded shows and movies on DVDs and free up valuable hard drive space
• Take your shows with you: Create DVDs that can be played back in most car, PC, or home theater DVD players
• Multiple playback formats: DVD-Video, DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, audio CD, and your favorite media
• Record: Up to 80 hours of TV entertainment without the hassles of videotape
• Control live TV: Pause, rewind, slow-motion, and provide instant replay for any channel, anytime
• Electronic program guide: Provides the TiVo Series2 DVR with up to 14 days of program guide data
• Wish List searches: A TiVo service exclusive that works like a search engine to find the programs you're interested
• Season Pass recordings: Only from TiVo service, gets every episode of all your favorite shows, minus the
• Works with any TV setup: Antenna, satellite, cable, digital cable, combinations--even rabbit ears
• TiVo online scheduling: Schedule recordings from any Internet connection
• Front DV inputs: Digitally transfer movies from your digital camcorder to the unit's hard drive and then burn them to DVD
• Multi-room viewing: Access and view recorded programs on multiple TiVo DVRs
• Digital photo viewer: Share and enjoy your digital photos on your TV screen
• Digital music player: Play MP3s through your home entertainment sound system

What's in the Box
TiVo DVD-R, TiVo Peanut remote, power cord, 25-foot phone cord, phone line splitter, composite A/V cables, RF coaxial cable, serial (data) control, IR control cable, user's manual.

Product Description

Easy to use TiVo service makes burning DVD's as easy as recording a program. Multiple playback format compatible including DVD video, DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, A/V CD and your favorite media. Tivo online scheduling. Control live TV, pause rewind, slow-motion, instant replay any channel anytime. Electronic program guide provides the TiVo series2 DVR with up to 14 days of program guide data. Smart Recording detects line up changes, adjusts recording time automatically and even skips reruns. The ergonomically engineered remote control puts the power to pause, rewind, slow-mo and record right at your finger tips.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

65 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Would be great if they actually worked for more then a month!, October 21, 2005

By 

E. VANVALKENBURG "elisajanna" (Williamsport, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Remanufactured HUMAX DRT800F DVD Recorder with TiVo (Electronics)

I knew I was taking a chance when I ordered one that was refurbished but I could actually afford this one and what was wrong with it should have been fixed. The first one and the 2 that have since replaced it all initially worked but broke within a month. The first one had the DVD drive go bad the other 2 have had what appear to be hard drive problems. The last replacement unit lasted 2 weeks before it wouldn't copy an episode on to DVD. Prior to that it had frozen up 4 times, the first time being the day after I set up the unit, and the playback of the episodes was getting worse and worse.

Every time I have had to deal with customer service they have made me go through a number of things before replacing the unit. Do not bother to call them at all until you have unpluged the unit including the phone line for 3 minutes and allowed the unit to reset because they won't do anything until you have done this. Also if you are using any DVDs that are not TDK or Sony they will blame the problem on the disks no matter what the problem is or how reliable the DVDs have been for you. They will claim that the machine is very sensitive and if you put any other disks in the drive it must be unplugged and reset. I am not sure how you are supposed to make sure that any pre-recorded DVDs you watch meet their specifications. It should be noted the only thing the manual says is that you need to use DVD-Rs.

Today between the 5 phone calls I had to make to customer service, the two trips I had to make to the store to buy products that they told me would make the machine work properly and the large number of tests they had me run using the products they told me I had to buy I wasted 5+ hours (yes that was hours!) trying to convice them that it was a problem with the machine before they would finally admit that the machine shouldn't be doing what it was doing and agreed to send me a replacement. It would have been funny when the guy who had stayed on the phone with me while I was doing one of the tests said "It really shouldn't do that" if I hadn't been so frustrated by that time.

At one point I had a truly unbelieveable customer service person who told me that there was a slim to none chance that the machine would ever break. Considering they are both selling refurbished units and replacing broken units with refurbished units I was a bit surprised by this. After 20 minutes on the phone with her she told me that the bad playback of the Tivo portion was because I didn't have a cable box (despite the fact that I have had another Tivo for 6 years and never experienced this problem before) she totally ignored the fact that it was freezing up on me and claimed that the copy problem was due to the DVDs I was using despite the fact that one of the DVDs I had used was the one that came with the unit.

To make an even longer story short when this unit works it is wonderful but don't expect that it will work for very long and be prepared to spend a lot of time (literally hours) with customer service when it breaks!

74 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Would be 4 stars if the first unit wasn't a dud, September 20, 2005

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I. J. Cajigas "Izzy" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Remanufactured HUMAX DRT800F DVD Recorder with TiVo (Electronics)

The first unit I received froze every hour and I had to plug and unplug the machine to get it to work again. I called Humax tech support but I might as well have called my next door neighbor. Tech support staff were obviously reading from a protocol and consistently looked for ways to hang up on me and make me believe there was nothing wrong with the unit. When I told the first tech support person that I had already unplugged and plugged the unit several times he said "well just try it again and then call if it doesn't work and we'll see about replacing the unit." Needless to say it happened again and I had to call and eventually did get the unit replaced, but not after putting a $400 hold on my credit card (interesting considering the unit didn't even cost me that much to buy in the first place, and doubling the price of the box still wouldn't add up to this much). The second unit I received has worked well thus far and I've successfully burned shows to DVD as advertised. It's a great machine when it's working properly, but I'd say be wary of the quality of humax refurbished products and forget about getting good tech support.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Worked great for a year, Tivo stilll works, but DVD burner dead, February 17, 2006

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Winrit (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Remanufactured HUMAX DRT800F DVD Recorder with TiVo (Electronics)

I really enjoyed having the DVD burner. I burned all my favorite movies from TV to DVD. The Tivo part of the machine I can't live without. Unfortunately, after about a year the machine would crash every time I tried to burn a DVD. The only way I could fix it was to manually remove the DVD that was inserted in the burner and then unplug the machine and plug it back in. At first it would only crash occasionally, but eventually I risked the whole machine failing each time I tried to burn a DVD. I having nothing bad to say about Tivo, that works great and I can still watch DVDs. It is really the burner that makes this machine a flop. Personally, I would recommend getting your Tivo straight from Tivo. I've had my Tivo brand Tivo for three years now and never had a problem.