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DVD Hard dick recorder that plays AVI's???

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  • 15-09-2006 9:04am
    #1
    Bastack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    I bought a Sony Hard 160 GB Hard disk DVD recorder last night in power city and I was told it would play AVI's. When I got home and spent an hour setting it up I find out it does not play AVI's.... I am going to bring it back tonight to get my money back.

    My question is : Does anyone know a good DVD Hard dick recorder that will play avi's?

    Thanks

    a very frustrated consumer....


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    #2
    CiaranC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,300 ✭✭✭CiaranC


    Try as I might, I cant get my dick to play .avi's either


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    GrumPy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,557 ✭✭✭GrumPy


    What did the guy look like who sold it to you?? (what branch)


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    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    CiaranC wrote:
    Try as I might, I cant get my dick to play .avi's either
    Perhaps it isn't 'hard' enough?
    Is it at least 160Gb, that's important too?

    A dick of insufficient hardness or size is most frustrating, believe me!
    I'd suggest that the software should be upgraded to firmware, or for best results, to hardware.

    .


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    Ciaran500
    Registered Users Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    Bastack wrote:
    Hi all,

    I bought a Sony Hard 160 GB Hard disk DVD recorder last night in power city and I was told it would play AVI's. When I got home and spent an hour setting it up I find out it does not play AVI's.... I am going to bring it back tonight to get my money back.

    My question is : Does anyone know a good DVD Hard dick recorder that will play avi's?

    Thanks

    a very frustrated consumer....
    Theres alot of different type of video that uses the avi format. What is the model number of the player you bought?


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    Bastack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭Bastack


    :D

    I bought a RDR - HX720 and the guy in the shop told me that it would play AVI files! Lying Son of a B&&ch.......

    And some nice jokes there on the spelling ......... :D


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    drive3331
    Registered Users Posts: 183 ✭✭drive3331


    Hehe...what a thread title:)

    Was checking the specs for the DVD recorder.
    It should play DivX/Xvid encoded avi files.

    Are you trying to play unencoded/raw avi files?


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    blastman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭blastman


    What drive said. Uncompressed AVI files are huge and impractical to put on DVD. Make sure your file is Xvid or Divx format.


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    nuttz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 453 ✭✭nuttz


    drive3331 wrote:
    Hehe...what a thread title:)

    What's funnier is that he used the same spelling in the rest of the post. LMAO!


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    mkennedy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭mkennedy


    Rovi wrote:
    Perhaps it isn't 'hard' enough?
    Is it at least 160Gb, that's important too?

    A dick of insufficient hardness or size is most frustrating, believe me!
    I'd suggest that the software should be upgraded to firmware, or for best results, to hardware.

    .

    ROFL. classic.


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    daveg
    Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭daveg


    Here you go OP:

    http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=990

    More here:

    http://svp.co.uk/products-list.php?bid=0&cid=84


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Bastack wrote:
    :D

    I bought a RDR - HX720 and the guy in the shop told me that it would play AVI files! Lying Son of a B&&ch.......

    And some nice jokes there on the spelling ......... :D
    AVI is only a container format, what matters is the method of compression used. Technically, he didn't lie, he wasn't specific enough, or just didn't know the difference.


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