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LG DR4812W DVD Recorder

LG DR4812W DVD Recorder

21 reviews

Nov, 2024

Positive
usability (15)
price (11)
design (5)
finish (1)

Negative
image quality (4)
size (3)
reliability (2)

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 21 reviews of LG DR4812W DVD Recorder. The average rating for this product is 2.4/5, compared to an average rating of 3.7/5 for other Digital Video Recorders (DVR) for all reviews. Reviewers are impressed by the design. The price also gets good feedback, but some have doubts about the reliability and size. Comments are divided on the finish.

usability, price, design

image quality, size, reliability

We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other Digital Video Recorders (DVR) the LG DR4812W DVD Recorder is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 64/100 = Good quality.

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Expert review by : Alex Kidman (cnet.com.au)

LG DR4812W DVD Recorder

LG's inexpensive DVD recorder makes a great entry point for anyone pondering upgrading from the humble family VCR.

Multi-format DVD recording; thumbnails on DVD+/-RW recording

No Timeskip, some units reported with sound/recording faults

The DR4812W's isn't the absolute cutting edge in DVD recorders -- it can't do the timeskipping tricks that hard drive enabled players can, for a start -- but what it is is a great introduction to DVD recorders; it's capable and easy enough to use with...

Jul, 2004

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Expert review by : Alex Kidman (zdnet.com.au)

LG DR4812W DVD Recorder

LG's inexpensive DVD recorder makes a great entry point for anyone pondering upgrading from the humble family VCR. Read our Australian review.

May, 2004

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Consumer review (cnet.com.au)

LG DR4812W DVD Recorder

what a great machine I owned it for about two years no probs

great

beautiful

Feb, 2008

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Consumer review (cnet.com.au)

LG DR4812W DVD Recorder

i constantly have been having problems when i buy a new disc to record it will not initialise and i am sick of it

none

plenty

Dec, 2007

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Consumer review (cnet.com.au)

LG DR4812W DVD Recorder

Next time a disc wont initialize "Woppo" this is a bit of garbage the damn thing never worked properly

good door stop

expensive paper weight

Aug, 2007

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Consumer review (cnet.com.au)

LG DR4812W DVD Recorder

Worked for a month and burnet one time. The, the thing didn't work.

Jun, 2007

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Consumer review (productreview.com.au)

Terrible

I was very disappointed by this unit. I found that a lot of the time the DVD's would not play and that this unit was particularly sensutive. We managed to go through 3 of these in less than 12 months- each one was replaced with a new one until I...

Expensive, we went through 3 of these in less than a year. It could not stand up to the use of kids -who were not as gentle as they could have been but still I expected far more for the price paid.

Mar, 2010

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Consumer review (productreview.com.au)

Terrible

It takes too long to read the hard disk. Most of the time it cannot read the DVD When it works the picture is good. But overall LG stands for "LOW GRADE" crap. If you buy an LG product, you need help - but you won't get it from LG. Sony is not much...

Substandard unit

Feb, 2009

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Consumer review (productreview.com.au)

OK

Satisfied with the price i have paid. I have no regrette so far. I have utilised my money on good product

Reasonably priced recorder. Very useful for day to day recording.brtter than vhs recorders. I am really satisfied of the performances.

I cannot reord on the dvd of 8x 0r 16x

Mar, 2008

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Consumer review (productreview.com.au)

OK

I believe they could of gone cheaper since the machine is pretty slow to load up and read discs. Not very good customer service, could potentially be a good unit but LG needs to sort out its few problems.

Reasonable price, records both + and - format, easy menu system, easy to learn and use, aesthetic, slim body, great sleek design and finish, good features, great colours and it is easy to setup and record. Good variety of input formats.

Slower than expected startup, locked up once, remote is very big, titles basic, timer recording by start time and x minutes, doesnt seem to work with TDK-RW disks (pretty annoying).

Jul, 2007

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