Review on MAGNAVOX MDR513H F7 Recorder Digital by Mike Lunde

I have two hard drives and a MAGNAVOX MDR513H/F7 DVD recorder with digital tuner, black, one is about 18 months old and the other almost a year old and me got them love it.** PROS: Features are excellent. They have an S-Video input, which most newer DVD recorders don't have, which is important because it gives much better video quality than composite RCA, almost as good as component. If you have a cable or satellite tuner like most people, you probably connect the main video output from your tuner to your TV and the secondary video output to your DVD recorder. And you need the best possible video connection to get good footage. The recording quality is very good and there are multiple recording quality options (e.g. compression) on both HDD and DVD. If you're recording to a hard drive in a mode that produces a recording that fits onto a DVD, you can burn that recording to DVD without recompression while maintaining quality. Editing the recorded video works very well. My hobby is making movies for my video library and sometimes they are only available with ads. I always remove anything recorded before or after the film and any commercials. This is easy to do with these registrars. After editing, the recording can be easily burned to DVD. You can record to the internal hard drive or directly to DVD R/RW. Burning to a hard drive makes editing much faster, and editing DVD-R media is limited (by the media itself, if necessary) to changing the menu name and image. ** CONS: My old device died a few months ago but Magnavox replaced it. It's free under warranty. That's annoying most of the time, but the remote control isn't exactly reliable. Sometimes pressing a key (e.g. pause) may not work the first time. This may be due to the need to point the remote precisely at the device, but even then it's not reliable. Interfaces), but the video editing UI could be improved. In order to edit a post, you need to go into the "editing mode" where the image takes up about 1/4 of the entire screen. In this mode, you can play, fast forward, rewind, pause, etc. until you get to the point where you want to edit, edit, and then continue. You can do whatever you want there, but it would be overly complicated to allow the user to view the recorded video in full screen, then pause and enter "Edit Mode" for a single edit, then exit "Edit Mode" and to continue. The user could then view the entire program in full screen mode and only enter "edit mode" when needed.