{"id":48,"date":"2005-12-06T06:40:36","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2005-12-10T07:52:16","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T13:52:16","slug":"review-dvdr05zu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Review \/ Comparison ilo DVDR05ZU – DVDR05MU"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many differences between the ilo dvdr05 MU, and ZU. So many I felt like I had to list them.<\/p>\n

The ZU from the get go wasn’t even close to the same level of features\/bugs as the MU.<\/p>\n

After 2 weeks of using the ZU, I didn’t feel like burning $100 in an ash tray.<\/p>\n

The interface is so different that these units should not be sold in the same box. <\/p>\n

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The thing that bothers me most about the ZU is that there is no Mo-Fr scheduling option, other than that it’s been a good unit. I keep waiting for a firmware update where someone somewhere decides to add Mo-Fr, until then I’m forced to make a trip to the scheduling menu every Friday night and disable the option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Function<\/td>\nMU<\/td>\nPoints<\/td>\nZU<\/td>\nPoints<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Source<\/td>\nClick source 3 times, or click source once, and then right\/left 3 times<\/td>\n-1<\/td>\nClick source once, then left once<\/td>\n+1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plays DVD-Video<\/td>\nNope failed at every attempt<\/td>\n-5<\/td>\nSo Far<\/td>\n+5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A-B Editing<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n+2<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Delete Title Bug<\/td>\nNot that I noticed<\/td>\n+5<\/td>\nSometimes deletes the whole disk when only selecting 1 title. Firmware upgrade causes nothing to be deleted.<\/td>\n-5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mo-Fr<\/td>\nAllows you to schedlue Mo-Fr, Daily, Once, and Weekly<\/td>\n+3<\/td>\nOnly Once, Daily, Weekly<\/td>\n-3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scheduling Length<\/td>\nAllow you to set the length of your scheduled recording. 1:00 for 1 hour. :30 min etc.<\/td>\n+3<\/td>\nAnnoying … set date time. Even 11-22-05 is required spans a day when the time is changed. Not a good feature. It’s cumbersome. Firmware upgrade made it a little better don’t ask my why or how.<\/td>\n-3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Specific Brands of media required<\/td>\nIf you advertise you work with DVD+RW you should work with DVD+RW\/+R NO MATTER WHAT BRAND IT IS!!!!!<\/b> If I had a VCR that didn’t work for memorex VCR tapes, but would for maxcell I would return it and not even think twice! If the box says DVD+RW then it should work with any brand of dvd+rw.<\/td>\n-10<\/td>\nIf you advertise you work with DVD+RW you should work with DVD+RW\/+R NO MATTER WHAT BRAND IT IS!!!!!<\/b> If I had a VCR that didn’t work for memorex VCR tapes, but would for maxcell I would return it and not even think twice! If the box says DVD+RW then it should work with any brand of dvd+rw.<\/td>\n-10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skips when recording<\/td>\nI costantly had this thing skipping.<\/td>\n-5<\/td>\nDoesn’t seem to – more testing required<\/td>\n+5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plays Preview from title\/edit menu for selected title<\/td>\nNo – Just a still image<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nYes – At first seemed like a cool feature … it gets a little annoying.<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Firmware<\/td>\nDownloading official firmware, and installing voids your warrenty if not told to do so<\/td>\n-5<\/td>\nDownloading official firmware, and installing voids your warrenty if not told to do so<\/td>\n-5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CM Skip During Schedlued Recordings<\/td>\nCan’t use the commercial skip button during recording a scheduled event.<\/td>\n-2<\/td>\nYou can skip commercials whenever you’re recording<\/td>\n+2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FF, REW speed while playing<\/td>\nUp to 20 x.<\/td>\n+3<\/td>\nOnly up to 3x<\/td>\n-3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Red Rec Bubble<\/td>\nNo red record bubble while recording<\/td>\n+2<\/td>\nAnnoying record bubble while recording<\/td>\n-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory<\/td>\nRemembers where you were on the disk if you insert it. With an option to turn it off<\/td>\n+1<\/td>\nNo memory, and no way to turn it on\/off<\/td>\n-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Audio Options<\/td>\nYou can select a lot of different Audio options<\/td>\n+2<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\n-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Video Quality<\/td>\nAt 8hours it was worse than the zu. The MU skipped shoot it skipped no matter what. It would have been great at hop sckotch<\/td>\n-3<\/td>\n8 hr mode was just about as good as a VCR at 8 hrs using a T-160 tape.<\/td>\n+3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Record back to back shows on different channels<\/td>\nThe MU did not do this out of the box, after a firmware upgrade it did, but always skipped.<\/td>\n-5<\/td>\nOut of the box you could record shows back to back on different channels, it didn’t complain at all.<\/td>\n+5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Overheating issues<\/td>\nIt seemed like this thing needed to operate inside a fridge.<\/td>\n-5<\/td>\nYippie seems to operate all day long at room temprature 60-80 F<\/td>\n+5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weird Sounds While Playing\/Recording<\/td>\nYes the more high pitched chirping sounds, the worse the skipping on playback.<\/td>\n-5<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n+5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Schedule Events<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n-1<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n+1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Operates 24hrs a day<\/td>\nIt would’t even last 1 hr without complaining.<\/td>\n-10<\/td>\nIt has worked after leaving it on, and running for several hours, and even days.<\/td>\n+10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Repeat<\/td>\nRepeat options are title, chapter, a-b, and all.<\/td>\n+2<\/td>\nRepeat title, chapter, and a-b.<\/td>\n-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n-34<\/td>\n<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

If you are going to get one of these, I recommend getting a ZU. The main reason is – for the most part – it worked out of the box. I would not recommend getting either of these<\/b>. Due to the fact that if you buy a product, and it clearly says on the box what it should do, and it doesn’t, then why buy it? I believe it’s called false advertising. 2 out of 2 products had something that didn’t work quite right. For $100 I expect the equipment to function. I don’t feel like going back a 3rd – and possibly a 4th time to find a functioning device. Maybe I’ll watch for the next firmware upgrade, and install it for the ZU.<\/p>\n

The ZU has 2 major issues. #1 Doesn’t delete titles right. #2. No Mo-Fr for scheduling.<\/p>\n

The MU never really worked right.<\/p>\n

Things I don’t understand. Why only 8\/10 events? You can write the date, in 3 bytes, time in 2 bytes length in 2 bytes input device or channel 1 byte. By my count that’s 8 bytes total for an event. That means in 1k – thats 1024 bytes – I could set up to 128 events. That of course is programing in an 8 bit world. The ‘date’ could also serve for setting Mo-Fr, Daily, or Weekly. So it’s totally possible to do it in 8 bytes per event.<\/p>\n

Since this is not an 8 bit world. I could write the date as utc 1133873781 today that’s 10 bytes for the time. I’d also set up the length as a utc. So 1 hour from now would be 1133877381. That’s still only 21 bytes including a space. I could still keep the input device\/channel as 1 byte. Because there are only 140 channels at most, and then I’d make 141 dv, 142 input 1, 143, input 2 144, and svideo 145. This still makes our string we’re saving 24 bytes – 1 more space 1 more byte and a \\n (that’s a new line for those of you who don’t know aka return – enter). So for the sake of argument we could make it 25 bytes long. In theory this set up would work until Sat, 06 Sep 2014 22:50:07 -0600. Then the device may suffer from something similar to ‘y2k’. With a bloated data structure like this you could still program 40 events In 1k<\/b><\/i> <\/p>\n

Granted I don’t know that much about C++ or even Machine language, but I’m pretty sure if you gave me a year I could write a pretty decent timer set up with an 8 byte per even structure.<\/p>\n

Overall the dvdro5 ZU has worked much better than the MU. I must say this about the MU, if my experience hadn’t been so bad with it, it’s features would have worked nicely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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