Question 1

Hello, do any of these come with WIFI ?
im looking for 
DVD Recorder With 500GB Hard Drive & digital  TV tuner, WIFI

Accepted Answer

not even close. it has a tuner, which means it gets the raw stream, through composite, rca and coax. output has the addition of hdmi, though i don't think you get true HD from it since it's DVD standard.

Question 2

Will this replace the DVD player and recorder I rent from my cable company?  Thank you

Accepted Answer

Not exactly. Don't think you'd have the DVD player from the cable company. They usually rent out DVR, which is actually a converter box, with hard disk to record the programs. You can by-pass the DVR box and ask for simple converter from the cable company, which could save you about $10 in rental/service. But you'll lose the flexibility of recording in one place. With this, you'll have to program the converter to switch to the channel and then program this one to record it. With cable company's DVR you also have flexibility of watching one program and recording another one at the same time (or even record two at the same time).

Question 3

How many timer recordings can you setup?  Say I wanted to record 5 different shows during the week.  Can I do that?  Also, can you view a recorded show while you are recording another show? Say I recorded something on Monday and on Tuesday, can I watch the Monday show while recording a different show?

Accepted Answer

Sorry, it took so long to answer, been a busy work week. I bought this for my girlfriend and went to her house and played with it and looked at the manual. The manual says you can enter 36 events to be recorded using the Timer recording. The recordings are set up just like a VCRs where you set the date and time for the recording to happen. It allows the 36 events to be set up in advance within an upcoming month, so you could set up a lot of shows to be recorded. If you just hit record while watching a show, it will record for six hours then stop recording automatically. You can stop it earlier if you want.

The next question is trickier. We are using this with a TV antenna. My GF wanted to cut the cord on her cable bill. We can record and rewind back as long as it stays on the same channel. However, the owners manual says it can be set up to record on one channel and watch something else if using a set top box. We haven't tried that because of how we are set up. With the antenna we have to be on the same channel. We may not have figured this out all the way yet though.

I highly recommend the product as it works great and has been very reliable. It is simple like a VCR and my GF likes that. You can also record straight to a DVD if you don't want to use the hard drive. That function works great and works with DVD+r and DVD+RW discs. I hope this information is helpful. Thanks.

Question 4

CAN I RECORD OVER THE AIR TV AND SAVE AND WATCH LATER?
DOES IT HAVE A TUNER FOR OVER THE AIR TV?

Accepted Answer

Yes, you can record over the air TV. When you set the unit up, it has you scan for channels. Then you can use the channel button on the remote to go up and down those channels that it found when scanning. It has two tuners, an SD and an ATSC tuner. I bought this for my girlfriend and she has 22 channels scanned. To use the record function is very much like using a VCR. The timer programming function and how you do it works almost exactly like using a VCR (the same way).
There is also an output for HDMI from the unit to your TV. This way the over the air channels (which are high def) can be sent to the TV in high def. When setting the unit up, go through the menu and turn on the option that says "CEC-HDMI". 
I highly recommend this unit. The one I bought works great and  the DVR part works great. I hope you enjoy.

Question 5

to record to the unit's hard drive from some other device such as another dvd player or from a vcr  what connection type is there?Could it take input from an RCA type output (white, red and green/yellow) ? not sure what dv input means.

Accepted Answer

Yes, it has regular Composite Video and Audio Inputs (Yellow/White/Red) as well as an S-Video Input.

Question 6

hi, i saw where there is an edit function and that's great but does this machine record from the HDD to the DVD after editing??  i ask because the last one i had a few years ago wouldn't go from HDD to DVD. 
if it does then i want one of these.  thanks

Accepted Answer

This recorder lets you edit the recording and the name attached to the recording tnen you can save it to a dvd. It is easy to use and easy to learn.

Question 7

does this unit record in hd from the hdd to a dvd in hd ?

Accepted Answer

This unit does not record in HD.  It records in excellent-quality satisfying digital SD, including wide screen.  It does up-convert to HD, but so does everything else, including your HDTV.  No.  Dubbing to a DVD will not result in an HD DVD, but you'll still get an excellent copy, and you can edit to your heart's content.  This unit's a good, reliable workhorse OTA recorder which will quietly collect many instances of all your favorite non-cable TV shows from an antenna until you are ready to view them.  There's even a Skip button for jumping over commercials.  I have two of these units.  Bought the first one almost three years ago, and they are IMHO the best OTA DVR solutions on the market.  Also, most cable systems have introduced encryption which prevents this DVR from recording anything but over-the-air programming.  If you want that capability, your Cable Company will happily provide it, and will make you pay through the nose.  The Magnavox is for "Cable Cutters" like me.

Brand	Magnavox
Model	MDR535H

Player Type	HDD Recorder + DVD Player
Other Specification	Video Playback Playback Media: CD-R/CD-RW, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, DVD-Video Video disc playback system: NTSC Audio Playback Playback Media: Audio CD, CD-R/RW, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, DVD Compression format: Dolby Digital, PCM Still Picture Playback Playback Media: CD-R/RW, DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/ -RW, DVD, Audio CD Picture Compression Format: JPEG

Magnavox Home Theater DVD Recorder With 500GB Hard Drive - MDR535H Record up to 626 hours to HDD

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