DVD + 250Gb Hard Disk Recorder from Aldi
scotty on 01/09/2006 at 8:35 pm, filed under Coupon
Saw this on Aldi Australia‘s website: DVD Recorder with 250GB Hard Disc Drive for $399. Looks like a good buy — it used to cost almost a $1,000 for a hard drive recorder. It is also compatible with DivX/MPEG4 so there’s a lot of TV programs that you can record. It also has iLink interface built in, i.e. you can plug in your DV camcoder and it’ll download the videos (and probably compress them into MPEG4) for you.
Here’s the spec:
- Compatible with DVD / DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD+R / DVD+RW / JPEG / CD / CD-R / CD-RW / MP3 / WMA
- DiVX/MPEG4 compatible
- Timeshift function – record a program while watching another recorded program
- 6 recording modes, progressive scan
- Dolby Digital AC3 decoded output
- Front connections: AV in, DV in, USB in
- Rear connections: TV tuner RF input/output, S-Video, RCA input, 5.1CH audio output, coaxial digital output, i-link interface, YPbPr/YCbCr output
- Includes remote control and batteries
It comes with one year warranty.
I think one lacking feature is a digital tuner nor digital input, so even though you might have a separate digital tuner, it’ll still only record the analogue signal.
Talking about watching and recording TV, rockycape wrote in and said:
If you are one of the first 500 to take up this offer you can get 50%
off any IceTV subscription between now until the end of September — whether your are a new, old or existing IceTV customer.Simply go to www.icetv.com.au/subscribe.php, purchase the IceTV subscription of your choice (1, 3 or 12 month) and enter the following
“discount code” to receive 50% Off the IceTV subscription;icetvmakestvworthwatching
IceTV looks like an online TV guide and with a few clicks you can easily schedule when the programs are recorded. There’s a 14-day free trial. I don’t think the Aldi PVR supports it though. If watching TV is your thing (I spent only around 5 minutes in front of TV a week), then you might give it a try.
Aldi Australia’s website: Tevion DVD Recorder with 250GB Hard Disc Drive
Prcied at ONLY $279. Australian dollars…
What a bargain..I will be waiting for the doors to open this Thursday 29th March 2007 at 9am with my cash in hand.
John — yup. I wrote about it here. Looks like a great bargain!!
Aldi’s Tevion DVD Recorder with 250GB HDD looks like a great deal but is it’s ‘inbuilt tv tuner’ a digital one? and if not does it have digital input so it can record digital tv from a separate digital set top box? Im there if so
Check this thread at DTVForum and hopefully that will answer your question.
Hi,
I see no reason why the Tevion HDD recorder could not be hooked up to a digital set top box .
I’ll know for sure this Thursday, and at $279. for a 250Gb hard drive recorder it is a GREAT deal.
Aldi I love you and your bargains…
Cheers,
John Gehring
Mooroopna.
Further to Aldi’s 250Gb HDD for sale this Thursday… after speaking to Aldi by ‘phone I have been assured that their sale price will be $279. Includes remote control & batteries, AV cable and has Digital Video and USB inputs – dolby digital recorder.
Can’t wait to get my grubby hands onto one.
why is the price are different from the first I saw….?
I thought is $279 and now is $369?
Mr Tee…
The price is $279. and very good value at that.
John G……
Only trouble with this unit is that if the power fails so do all your presets so if you are expecting to preset all your favs while you are on hols for example, keep your fingers crossed the power stays on.
Come off it Shawn…
Keep your fingers crossed that you don’t get ‘Nuked by some terrorists too..
or you might loose all your presets on your recorder.
I think I know where your fingers are.
John G……
Well thankyou John. Not sure which planet you live on or which electricity company you get your power from but power outages are all too common here on planet earth. I often go away for extended periods of time and have come home to see my clock flashing until I realised that any unit needs some kind of power to keep the clock powered up. In production this would cost less than a dollar to make provision for, such as a couple of AA batteries. If consumers expectation demand such things companies will quickly incorporate them in production. Unfortunately john I think you are the one with the misplace finger, but thanks for the thought.
PS to my last. I did forget to mention one other thing. It might have escaped your notice John but there is this small little problem called the greenhouse effect. Heard of it? These really pesky folk say that we should try and cut emissions and suggest we should turn things off stand by. I suppose it is unreasonable to expect manufacturers to understand this also and have their units capable of being turned off standby. Heaven forbid what anarchy that would create and what an onerious task it would be for as mortals to actually use our index finger productively by turning a few things off around the house we are not using.
Dear Shawn,
my Irish friend,
Seriously, I agree with all you say.. A backup battery of some sort would be great.
and I agree with what you say about the greenhouse effect.
Where possible I like to turn all my electricial equipent off standby but in the case of the Tevion recorder you would loose all settings and forever be resetting the clock.
So..you win.. I loose.. and will be productive and stick my index finger in my mouth in future.
Cheers,
John Gehring.
Hi all. I bought one of the Tevion 250 GB HDD, and have just set it up. The problem I have with it, is that the tuner “tunes” to a frequency andgives it a “program number” (eg P056) and a name (or channel No, eg Ch0058), but you cannot change these settings to say Seven, Nine, Ten etc for your local channels. Has anyone else noticed this? It would have been nice to have this function. Or am I doing something wrong??
Hello, Barry,
I had exactly the same problem and spent a frustrating hour or two trying to make the “Channel Numbers” match my TV station channels.
I eventually gave up …
Has anyone else had any luck?
I have some DIVX (avi) movies on DVD but my Tevion DVD Recorder with 250GB Hard Disc Drive, won’t play them. Can you help please?
The IceTV Discount Code has been stopped.
Hi all it’s me again. I didn’t have any success with the channel settings. I just have to remember that preset 53 on the remote refers to CH056 on the TV (you have to remember this CH No so when you set up timer recording the Ch No goes in, not the preset No – very confusing). However I am now having another problem. I tell the HDD to record one channel, but it records another channel instead. Anyone else having this problem? Thanks
Just thought I’d let you know that I took my HDD back to ALDI, and they refunded me the money, no problems. I still had the problem of the recorder recording different stations from the ones I wanted. Must be some bug.
I have purchased the same DVD recorder. Have the same issue with the channels. But this is minor.
I programmed 3 movies to record to DVD when I am away. When I came back the DVD was full, but is not recognisable by the recorder. It comes up with the message “No DVD” ?!
They are supposed to be my favourite shows! and now I don’t have them! :((
Can anybody help?!
Thanks, Sofia
Sofia,
I am afraid to say that in all probability you have lost your shows. I have had similar problems in the past when recording direct to disk on another DVD recorder which didn’t have a built-in HDD (which is why I bought the Tevion – for the Hard Disk Drive)
The DVD fills up, the recorder is unable to close the session and the rest is history. The data is there, it just can’t be accessed.
My question, though, is why were you recording directly to DVD, when you have a Hard Disk Drive with so much more space? You should have no problems recording three shows to HDD and playing them back. Then if you want to, you can transfer them to DVD later (or simply erase them off the HDD if you no longer want them).
I bought one of the 250GB HDD PVRs last week from Aldi ($199.00) … operated OK until Sunday, then displayed only one channel. Exit & standby-power RCL keys worked OK, but no others. Would’ve liked to have been able to reboot (no infm). A friend also bought one at the same time; his was getting very hot and similar faults were starting to develop. I took mine back and got a refund.
I have one of the “Set Top Box with 250GB PVRs from Aldi ($199.00) TPVR2511 and it is working okay except the picture and sound are simutaneously freezing now and then. I guess the aerial is the problem … not compatable. Once I have the antenna checked out the PVR should operate fine.
To the people who bought the Tevion with the 250GB HDD & DVD-burner … how happy are you now, 6 months down the track? Aldi have what appears to be the same unit at the same price from tomorrow, so would love feedback about it.
Just bought one morning.
Hopefully it has been enhanced.
hi guys
how do you copy a dvd to hdd on these units?
i want to load up my collection of kids movies on hdd but i
cant figure it out. i just bought it a few days ago
Geez it gets hot. I brought the 250HDD last thursday but once I set it up I noticed only after two hours of recording it became very hot. My brother brought the 160 HDD about four months ago and he said he’s is the same. Left on stand by cools down. Any one else have this problem.
not really, have it in a well ventilated area. How do you copy your dvds to the hard drive?
Has anyone got the answer to this.
cheers mm
Mine had a dicky remote control. Combined with the lack of proper channel numbers (c’mon Tevion, that feature doesn’t even cost you anything, just a proper firmware will do the trick), overall it didn’t give me a great deal of confidence to continue with the unit and I had it returned.
Hi, I have bought a Tevion TDR251HD Dvd recorder and cannot seem to tune in correctly to any TV chanels.
Aerial works OK to Set top box etc.
Any one had simmillar problems ??
Any solution / menu selection option !
After three months of working with the Tevion 250Gb I have the following to report:
Can’t change the channel description.
Unit freezes when reading faulty CD’s.
Unit sometimes has a problem reading USB devices and freezes.
Sometimes the unit will not copy from USB devices but it will play from them.
Overall I am very happy with the unit and will be buying two more as xmas presents for my adult children if I can find any.
My TDR251HD has just stopped playing discs. It refuses and I get a “Not Accepted” up on the screen. It did used to play Region 1 and Region 4 and discs I had burrnt. It now plays none of them. Now not even a CD. Can anyone help. I truly think this Tevion cr** is to be avoided. You get what you pay for I guess. I’ll be going back to Pioneer.
Is the unit region-free? I thought it was Australia-only?
We had a Tevion 250g hard drive DVD, no problems with it. Have since purchased Tevion set top box, and cannot get it to record anything in digital? Is it something wrong with our set up or is it just not possible to record? Can anyone help please.
I have a Teac HD ditial TV with only a standard set top box. I want to purchase a digital hd recorder, does this have an HD box in it so that I can also watch the HD channels..Now be gentle I’m 69 years of age & need plain language…Thanks in anticipation of you help. Sue
Bought TDR251HD in Nov 07. It worked for 1 month & stopped recording on timer. Took it back to Aldi’s supplier in Knoxfield Vic & got new 1 following week. Took it back next day as only 190hrs of 318hrs SLP recording time were showing on brand new empty HDD. Plugged in new one while still @ warehouse & it only showed 188hrs SLP. Tech removed HDD & put in spare he had laying around in office. It showed 290hrs, so I accepted it. TDR251HD still freezes while recording from tv & while recording to disc from HDD – particularly in hot weather. It gets extremely hot on top, but I have found if I keep a baking tray with freezer bricks on top to keep it cooler, it does play up less. I think when the warranty period is finished, I will be opening the unit & installing computer fan. I think overheating is its main prob.
I bought the smaller Tevion , 160 HD , last June , lasted 2 months , took it back to Brisbane and they changed it over for a Conia 250 gb on August 31 st. Came back from holidays last week and it is dead. Taking it back on Monday and they will change it over for a new Tevion – 3 rd time lucky I hope
Just bought Tevion DVD player for $35 from ALDI mainly for the USB function.
Bought 1TB (FAT32) $299 from Office Works, yes that’s right $299.
Plugged it into the USB on the DVD player, can’t recogize it.
Plugged it into the USB on the TEVION 250 PVR and WOW it works.
Call service centre says the DVD player can only take upto 250GB FAT32 HDD’s because of power problems with larger HDD’s.
Is that right?
Have a DVD HDD 160 and would not buy again another ALDI product. This one is now out of warranty, no interest in fixing it, buy a new one. After sales service, forget it once the warranty is finished.
I have the Tevion 250 x DVD hard drive recorder.
It too has stopped playing DVD’s an CD’s. I had this problem while it was still just in warranty but it fixed itself somehow. Now it is out of warranty and just won’t work.
Is it possible to put a dvd player from my old computer in it and get it to work?
It might be a long shot but maybe possible.
Cheers
Nigel
I have a Tevion 250HHD DVD recorder and a Tevion HD set top box. I want to connect them so I can record from the set top box, but can’t figure out how to do it. Can anyone help with instructions? (Please provide a drawing showing all the cable connections, if you can.)
I have a few foreign films in DivX/XviD and am disappointed with how the Tevion 250HHD handles “soft” subtitles.
1. It does not even recognize IDX/SUB files.
2. It does recognize SRT subtitles, but you must manually select it before playing the movie. Very annoying when there are two or more movies in a row.
3. The subtitle text appears all left-justified, instead of centred, and it tries to cram 2 lines into one line. Very often two words get jammed together without a space in between.
4. The subtitle “window” has a different coloured (or different shade of black) background. This whole window pops in and out together with the subtitles and becomes very distracting.
Overall, this handling of DivX subtitles looks very amateurish. I reckon they just forgot to tidy up the program code (software) for them. My friend’s Tevion 160HHD does the same, probably the same chip?
One good thing tho, it does let you play MP3 music and JPG photos simultaneously. This might be an unintentional bug, but I like slideshows with background music. ;o)
Have had a SD Set top Box with 250 GB HHD for a while now. It seems to get very hot. The HHD just froze one day saying it was full but still had 188 GB of available space left, could not record anything. Turned unit off on main switch on front panel to reset. Everything seemed to work OK but lost all recorded programs on HHD. Same thing happened again last night but no reseting will fix it. No HHD functions available at all now. Has anyone had similar problems or a fix?
Has anyone opened up one of these that don’t work? Is any of the components “unpluggable” or are they hard wired into the board? HDD/DVD/etc.
Wouldn’t mind getting my hands on one, just to get the bits and upgrade it, but the core CPU component seems like it is the problem – especially if it is overheating.
I have a Tevion TDR251HD. Does anyone know where I can get a detailed manual for this machine? Thanks
from past experience, you get what you pay for…
you pay peanuts, you usually get monkeys…
I have the Tevion SD 250 GB. I have had no trouble after I turned off the function that allows time shift recording. If you disable this function the HDD will go into sleep mode and hence the unit does not get so hot. Its a trade off between using the time shift record function or having your unit overheat. I personally have had my unit freeze up and I lost all HDD recordings. If I remember correctly I just did a full HDD format. Its been months now with the time shift disabled, have not had any problems. Hard drives can generate a lot of heat.
Hiy,
just acquired one of these (supplied in strange unprinted generic white carton) yesterday, after long-running battle to get a replacement of some kind for a failed Tevion TPVR1100 which went in early July. The mob ALDI have doing their service in Knox vic would have to be the most dysfunctional bunch service-wise I have ever dealt with, despite the flash looking premises they have if you have ever been there. I stopped counting in double-figures how many times Id been promised that a DVD recorder in lieu of the unobtainable PVR had been posted, only nothing to turn up, call ALDI again, whole process began again.Even their service email link now returns emails receiver unknown. Anyway, in exasperation, I went in there, and sure enough was given one of these TDR250HD units, plus a Conia DSTB, I guess because the TDR250 is not a digital decoding unit.You are expected to connect the two and have 2 appliances doing job of one. Fair enough, if you can, or actually not that worried even if it wont record in digital, as the only real difference between that and the PVR I had would be ABC2 ch22.
What I am after reading this blog is filled with some apprehension over the likely reliability of the unit, that it will lose its settings each time there is a common power outage?
That it will take it upon itself to skip recording channels from the one you have requested?
That it gets so hot you can fry a steak and eggs on it while you record something( which excessive heat always spells premature death of hard drive units of any kind)
that the recording function generally is iffy dependability and ur lucky not to casually lose the lot in a freeze or crash?I probably wont even be recording that many discs, occasional, but simply using it as a PVR 80% of the time…but in that capacity, a lot, almost daily.
That you will not even get your full allocation of 250GB but that it might be as little as a third of that budget available to start with?
The channel number assignments is also a bloody annoying and childish fault ….which the earlier TPVR1100 was ok in that way, from memory, and was also an easy set-up channel scan.
Bear in mind I havent run or used it yet,new in carton, Im wondering if it is better off sold on on Ebay for whatever I can get, and getting a HD one such as OMNI which may have most of the basic issues sorted out.
One final question- does it play region-free /R1 discs or not? If not, is there a hack code around for the player, at least ?
Grrrr. ALDI electronic products and their agent Pebble, even though ALDI customer girls have done their best on telephone when I have spoken to their people in Sydney.
Is this stuff basically re-badged Conia?
Should I be bothering, or **** it off while it is still new, as I dont want to get some complete TV drama series and other goodies TV wise on it only to lose the lot b4 I watch them.
Re: fixing overheating by switching off time-shift recording setting…what is Time-shift setting anyway, sounds like one of those buttons Ive never used on anything, unless without realising it.
I have the overheating problem with my unit … had it for the first time a couple of days ago, when I had the unit on for most of the day. Towards the end of the day, I lost colour on the unit – this returned after the unit was put into standby mode for several hours and allowed to cool.
Thing is, I *can’t* turn off time-shifting (which is the problem I believe, and which I don’t use EVER) … I’ve read the manual, I know where the selection SHOULD be to turn it off … but it’s NOT there.
Anyone had this problem?
Thanks!
P.S. Time-Shifting basically means the unit is ALWAYS recording live TV, so that IF you decide you need to dash off to the loo (or whatever), you can just press ‘pause’ on your remote, and it will record in your absence, and when you come back you can ‘play’ and catch up with your program again.
oh, yes, thanks, got it, might have come in handy last night while watching “Life” …I knew i was drowzy, and off I went.
But, its something I could get by without.
Record TV to hard-drive on command and by timer, have good playback pic quality, and be able to be trusted..is what i need from it, if it cant do that its useless.
Sounds like switching off that function is a good investment in the durability of the product.
Which settings does it lose when power is lost briefly?clock? thats a nuisance…wht about the channel set-up?
and oh yes, is the player a region free or it needs region hacking? The instructions seem to imply that it is R4 only, but of course sometimes that info is generic, or out of date, or deliberately evasive about such issues.
it’s actually a 251, not 250, I just realised. Is unit serial # about 8 million.
To my knowledge, the unit is R4, not region-free. Mine is also the TDR251HD. I contacted Pebble Ltd this morning about turning off time-shift, because Page 49 of the manual says the TimeShift Menu SHOULD have the following submenus:
* Timeshift Default Mode
* Timeshift Buffer Mode
* Hard Disk Info
* Space Management
* Empty Hard Disk
* Erase Optical Disk
My machine ACTUALLY has the following submenus:
* Timeshift Buffer Length
* Timeshift Buffer Mode
* Hard Disk Info
* Space Management
* Empty Hard Disk
* Erase Optical Disk
And it’s the “Timeshift Default Mode” that lets you turn it off, but I don’t have that menu option. They say it can’t be turned off “as time shift controls the entire unit”, which seems a bit bizarre – I mean, what does it have to do with DVD replay, for example? They then gave me 3 service centres I could send the unit to, which is even more odd, because it’s not broken as such, and doesn’t need fixing.
I’ve asked for further clarification …
Sheesh!
I was going to ask how you found Pebbles, but I guess youve answred that already indirectly. I havent attempted any kind of service advice as such with them, and I doubt I would, I think your chances would be better on blogs.
Who did u get at Pebbles, did you recall the name?
Anyway, as I said, the PVR was returned in early July, and ever since trying to get any action from them, continually prompted by ALDI, continually making promises about sending this 251 in its place, continually breaking that promise. The last convo I had on Friday afternoon, here is what I was told, by “bill” at Pebbles:
Well, give us another week or two, and if nothing happens, call me again”
the CS girl at ALDI agreed that that should be framed.
At risk of sounding politically incorrect, I think the place is a tower of Babel language and culture wise, they just cant communicate effectively internally.
I would not take as the final word the tech info they have given you, chances are its either lost in translation or else they honestly just dont fuqqen know the answer period.
Actually seems ok in most ways so far. One major win is that yes, it plays R1 DVDs no problem, no need for a hack code. The TimeShift I’m still having trouble making sense of how to work, let alone if it can be disabled or not.
The goto button is also causing trouble compared to the goto on the tevion PVR I had , it seems awkward so far as selecting a time point on a DVD you want to skip to, still dont have the hang of it, and there seems no effective “resume” or goto function so far as when ur watching a hard-drive file? If you stop it, there is no easy way to resume if from where you left off?
But some of the issues mentioned on this blog MAY have been resolved.
I have a tech question, actually. Pebble actually supplied me with a DSTB separate with this unit, which I havent connected to it yet…so that should make it possible to at least get the digital channels recorded through and onto the hard-drive? So therefor, if I obtained a HD DSTB, ditto I should then be able to rout the HD channels into the recorder?
What are the connections, antenna lead into the DSTB, an antenna lead STB to Recorder, and component connections output on from STB to input on Recorder?
The trick when watching the HDD is to use the ‘segment’ feature – I now NEVER watch using ‘play’.
Once you’ve decided to segment your HDD playback, just click ‘ok’ at the start and end of every commercial break, and you’ll create ‘chapters’ that you can then go to easily in future by pressing the |<>| buttons.
I have my unit set up with a stb that I got recently from Crazy Stu (Hailo HDSTB 8000). The way I have it set up is aerial into the STB, aerial from stb to DVD, aerial to TV / Composite (??? – anyway the red/yellow/white cords) from stb to hdd, composite from hdd to TV.
Then when I watch live, I click ‘source’ on the HDD to switch from standard analogue to the STB. When I record on timer, I choose CVBS instead of a ‘real’ channel, and make sure to set the STB to whatever channel I ‘really’ want to record.
Hope this helps! The STB also has HDMI which I think the Tevion also can accept, but my TV cannot (it’s a >15-year-old CRT), so I kept the connections Composite as that’s where my familiarity lies.
Catie
Hi
I’ve just bought a couple of these units and am having a few problems. Well one in particular. I’ve plugged the unit in, connected it up to the TV and turned it on. A nice blue TEVION screen appears on the telly but….
…on the DVD unit I get a flashing ‘hello’ and nothing else. The remote won’t open/close the drive bay or turn it onto standby. The buttons on the unit itself do nothing (except the power switch). No open/close, no source changing – nothing. It just keeps flashing hello at me in an increasingly annoying way.
I’ve been through the manual from cover to cover. Am I missing something? Is there a transport screw I’ve got to remove to kick it into life? Anything?
I removed the second unit from it’s box and plugged it in. Same deal. Hello hello hello…
Please help if you can
Cheers
Steve
Oh and I found this re hack for region changing. This should be handy when I can get mine up and running ;)
Region change procedure for Tevion TDR250HD DVD recorder
1. Ensure no DVD is in the tray
2. Enter 0086000 (the final digit selects the region code, 0=multizone)
3. Press Enter
You should now see a black rectangular box with a “0” at the top LH corner.
To display current region setting and firmware version, press 0009 and then press Enter.
Steve, it seems like these things have been modified a fair bit from what they were when this blog began. Im not having any RC problems, in fact the RC response seems noticeably good compared to my Highlander/Mitsui DVD players and the Tevion PVR they gave me this thing to replace. The other good news as I actually mentioned earlier, is it needs no zone hack, plays my R1 vids both commercial and home-mades like beauties.Ive been watching all R1 discs on it, havent even actually put a domestic R4 in yet.
The things which have got me tossed a bit are the issues Catie replied to, it used to be that Tevion Hard-drives had the means to resume a HDD recording from where you last left off, if you had stopped it, they had a series of coloured buttons i think the yellow one was a resume button, ie, a 1hr recording, if you watched 33 mins of it, hitting the yellow??? button would take it back up from where you left off. This seems to have gone west…likewise, although there is a GOTO button, this seems not to do anything on HDD files, you cant pick a 25 min mark on a 1hr file and skip to it, and if you are 3 mins into a DVD chapter, and you realise you have already come this far and probably need to be at about the 20min mark, ur supposed to be able to GOTO whatever time point you want…but it is incredibly difficult to operate that feature effectively or get the hang of how exactly ur suppsoed to do it, you will continually enact an unwanted chapter skip, i find.
The picture quality of hdds I find is perfectly acceptable on the qualities ive used, whatever they are.
I dont really understand why it segemts things into 1hr blocks, but it then has a feature to enable you to splice them anyway.
their idea giving me a Conia STB to enable some digital; channel recording was a nice thought, but on what Catie and others say it is so awkward to record that way that u would not bother, so far as a timer program goes.
So I have gone down a step or two from the PVR in those ways, but have the ability to record to disc, if i want to, which Ive never done and havent even trid out yet, but seems straightforward.
I encountered no ‘lock” switch or anything, was up and running and its setup scan and clock set done quite quickly.
Thanks for replying Patrick
Re the locking of this thing – I’d suspected as much. I’ll have a hunt around and see who I can get hold of to complain/return the units.
Re the Regional thing… I’ll read a little more closely next time ;)
Thanks again
Cheers
Incidentally, that 1-hour automatic segmenting thing drove me nuts when I first got the unit, but someone else (I think on the DTV Forums???) told me that if you go into TImeShifting and increase the segment-time to 3 hours, then you don’t have to worry about pesky 1-hour segments in your normal recordings.
I’m going from memory here cos I’m not home, but can check later tonight if anyone’s interested …
Cheers!
OH, WELL, that sounds like a chance, yes, just snoop into the timeshift menu and increase segment size beyond what most recordings are.
Heres how stupid it is. Sunday afternoon I wanted the Gilmore Girls Everwood block on nine. 2 1hr shows, which you allow 5-10 mins past the 5pm finishing time in case they run over.
So you end up with 3 files, 2X 1hr files…plus an extra one for the extra 5-10 mins margin past 5pm you allowed.
So, you can splice em into 2 or 1, which admittedly is a reasonably easy operation.
a bit easier than a simple GOTO operation seems to be.
Anyway, pic quality TV show files is more than satisfactory.
My Tevion Personal Video Recorder with 250GB HDD is 11 months old and is now playing up. It will allow you to enter all details for a timed recording on the screen and accepts confirm OK etc.But it seems to then ignore it so it is not there when you re-check it and it definitely is not there when due to start recording.
Also, on the right of the channel number on the display panel, yhr figures 5:29 have appeared for days now. What does this mean?
I have still not been able to reach Tevion customer support and the warranty is close to expiry. Thanks
No panic folks, I am now able to set timing of programs to record now after running through many related and unrelated routines and trying every option shown- a temporary glich! Thanks for the opportunity to seek help. However, I still have the figures 5:29 always appearing to the right of the channel number in the display panel. What is this all about?
Mine is actually a treat-so far.Working well. What a damn shame the thing is not able to get the HD stations or at least the digi stations, means that when I record an ABC program , the poor signal strength is carried through, where that station is perfect in digital.But its efficiency has been 100%, and it is such a relief and pleasure NOT to be pursuing accursed Pebble Electronics.
Tell a funny story. In the packing of these units, they hide the remote control inside the foam packing blocks so that it is easy to overlook, I swore that I had no remeote, and contacted ALDI that I had picked this unit up(after giving up waiting for them to despatech it despite many promises) and Pebble dutifully contacted me, and promised me a replacement remote.
In the meantime, I had stumbled over it, imbedded in the foam block, but was too embarrassed to admit it.Pebble assured me a replacement remote would be out that week.
Almost 2 months later, Im stillw waiting for the unneeded RC unit, academically, to see if they would keep that promise at least. They didnt, never heard any more about it.
Lucky it wasnt needed, eh?
But its a good machine-IF it keeps going.
I still havent tried making a drink coaster on it yet.
Meanwhile I bought a straggler OMNI 550GB HD PVR on ebay, which is in the bedroom, as a backup. Both machines are working perfectly, so far.
Both machines have an annoying feature, when playing HDD files back, that you cannot resume a half-finished program from where you left off. Once you hit stop, you lose your place, and have to scan scan scvan forward to find it.
Picture quality on recorded TV shows on SP+ quality, is excellent, you couldnt ask for better.
Michael: I don’t have those numbers, but a question … have you had even a brief power outage recently? Because these units have zero tolerance for any power outages, and I’m wondering if 5:29 is May 29th, which might explain why your timer recordings weren’t working. Just a thought.
Patrick: there IS a way to “bookmark” where you’re up to in a hdd recording with the Tevion. I never playback using the “play” feature, rather I use the “segment” feature. Usually I press it once at the start of a commercial break, and a second time at the end of the break. It creates little “bookmarks” each time you press it, which makes it easier to start off from where you left off.
That’s not its intended feature though, it’s meant to be for editing out commercials or something, so you DO need to give each “boookmark” a “start” and a “finish” i.e. by pressing at the start and end of a commercial break, or by pressing once when you start watching, and a second time before you stop watching.
Hope this helps!
P.S. Patrick, the Tevion is compatible with external HDSTBs, I’m using a Hailo from CrazyStu and it works a treat, you just have to remember to set the “channel” you’re recording to “Rear-CVBS” (or SCART, or whatever) rather than eg “Channel 2”, and then remember to set your STB also!
Yes, I actually knew it was possible to record through an DSTB or HD DSTB, they actually pre-empted that by giving me a Conia STB with the DVD+250GB, as it was a replacement for a PVR1100 which had failed ( as they all seem to do) which they could not supply any direct replacement for, so attempted to make it up in two separate appliances. Which of course although possible to use it in that way is unwieldy, also, would make it impossible to timer-program 2 programs which are on different channels…there is noone there to manually change channels on the STB once the first show has been done.
Handy little unit though, and I couldnt complain, they were obviously trying to some extent, even though ther place is utterly paralysed when it comes to actually sending out items.
I assume if I didnt live 10-12 kms from Pebbles, with a means of grudgingly going there, I would still be waiting for the dvd250 etc.As im sure many people who dont have that option, are still waiting.
As I said to the British bird at Sydney ALDI, “you know, if they were forthcoming and said to me that the unit was here, but I will just have to find my own means of coming and collecting it, Id have shrugged and gone up there, but when they keep making promises, it makes me determined that they are going to make good on one ”
which eventually I gave in b4 they did.
So although I lost out on any real digital capacity with it, I gained on it can make discs, and it also has a quite effective DVD playback deck….which was even unexpectedly region 0, saved me zone-hack headaches, as 50% of what sets I buy are in NTSC.
I dont know how they overlooked that resume playback thing…as even the PVR1100 could do that…when you went to the list, and shaded an item, and hit yellow button (which this machine has the 4 coloured buttons) it would neatly pick up from any last point reached on an unfinished playback….or one of the other buttons would simply fresh-play it.
Hi All, I have had my Tevion TDR250HD DVD recorder for about a year, as long as I don’t have a dvd in the dvd drive I don’t have problems recording TV programs with timer recording. What I want to know is does the coaxial out send a true digital signal as i have just purchased a new surround sound system and it shows only a 2 channel signal coming through the coaxial lead. And can someone scan a copy of the manual and post it on the web. I threw my manual out by accident and it is a dead set pain in the arse
Hi all,
further to my last post I did some fiddling and found that if the HDMI port is used then the coaxial out is only left and right. But if you disconnect the HDMI and use the component video to the tv then it sends 5.1 digital via the coaxial to the home theater. Seems really weird to me. can anyone explain?
Well, Im a few months in now with the Tevion 250GB recorder I had to fight Pebble so hard to actually get my hands on. I’d have to say so far the verdict is very positive, if this unit simply keeps going-which so many hard-drive recorders of any brand seem not to- then it is definitely a buy for the money…mine has already done a fair bit of work in a modest time, and Ive made my first ‘drink coaster” a DVD of Gilmore Girls finale and a US true crime show, which came out quite ok, it plays.
QUESTION!
Can anyone intepret the instruction sheet well enough to make sense of how you edit/trim files, for the life of me I cannot understand what they mean. You go to the Hard-drive menu, , select the actual “segment” option, but from there the instructions descend into Chinese English babble I defy anyone to follow logically what they mena. Ive made a few trial attempts at how you might go about it, but nothing happens.Basically ur supposed to be able to stop and start and stop and start the playback at various points on the playback gauge line and only lift away the parts between stops and starts as desired.Which is desirable, a 1 hr program is always about 1hr 15 mins long with me as I allow for over-runs, later, you’d like to discard the parts after and b4 the actual program to save more room on your dvd disc, Fiddle fiddle, nothing doing.
thanks.
For trimming the before-and-after parts, I use “split” not “segment”. Just choose “split” from the context menu, then ff past all the stuff you recorded BEFORE your show, then when you get to the start of your show, press “enter”. It’ll ask you if you want to split there, and you say “yes”.
Now you have 2 parts – the garbage before your show, and your show+the garbage after.
Same procedure again. Choose “split” from the context menu, ff through your show, and press “enter” at the end of your show, where you want to trim the end stuff.
Now you have 3 parts -> garbage-before, SHOW, garbage-after. Delete the before and end parts, and Bob’s your uncle.
For the record, I use “segment” to watch recorded programs, not “play”. Then, when I hit a commercial break, I press “enter” at the start, and “enter” again at the end. Means that, if I don’t finish a show in one sitting, then when I come back to it I can easily find where I was up to, by pressing >>| , rather than having to ff through everything I’ve already seen again.
HTH!
Im gonna try that, both split and segment, thanks…I disregarded the “split’ function as all it slogans that with is that it splits a file in 2..I thought “why would i want to split it in two?”
As I was thinking also probably two equal parts.
With the thing about resuming a partly watched file, I miss the yellow-button resume on the orignal PVR1100 which handled that beautifully, resuming any unwatched portion of any file just by hitting yellow on it.Worked a treat, they dropped that feature on this.
t/y
I have a tevion TDR160HD (from Aldi some time ago like 18 months) and I still cannot even get it to work let alone record. The system connection manual on page 11 completely beats me.The TV I have has got white and yellow inputs and outputs at the back. Any advice gratefully accepted
Hi Patrick,
I have used the segment function in order to burn recorded TV shows to disk without commercials. The way I did it was to select segment and then start watching the program. If you have stuff before the desired show press enter then fast forward to the start of the show. Rewind and play and press enter just befor show starts. Then fast forward till you get to the first Ad. Then rewind to just before the Ad press play and as soon as the Ad is about to start press enter, then fast forward to the end of the Ad and press play, rewind till the end of the Ad and press play when the Ad finishes press enter, then Fast forward to the next Ad and repeat the process until you get to the end of the show
The progress line will have different colours. If you burn this file to disk there won’t be any Ad’s on the disk.
Col_c
That worked a treat, actually, cropped every saved file I have back to size, one I even removed the commercials, which u can do same way if you have the patience.Maybe the segment function will actually work by that same method? But I havent tried it as that “split” function achieves the objective.
A fresh problem has arisen, though.
The DVD discs you make..I havent found any other player which will play them, they play back in the Tevion’s own player itself, but a friend reported they wont play in his LG…I thought it was just because his player is a few years old, but making another this morning, my Highlander about 2 years old wont read them-and to my surprise neither will my computers Sonic CinePlayer.
Does anyone know what the issue is?
And yet….burned DVD discs I bought from various private sellers in US play back correctly in all 3 players.
One of the discs I used was DVD(R+), one was DVD(R-), so that made no difference.
Hi Patrick
Yu have to go into the disc Op menu and select finalize so the disk can be read on another machine.
Yes, I had no idea, but chatting with someone over the weekend, he tipped me off to that.
What threw me is it never prompts or requests a finalize command.
But yes, there is a ‘finalise’ button, and it proceeds without difficulty, and the discs play ok elsewhere.
Despite having it for months , this was the first attempt at making a recording with it.Until now just used it as a PVR.
Have redone two fresh discs since.
If i put the two drink coasters back in the machine, will they be able to be erased successfully and fully if they were never finalised?
A rodney ” has left this but I cant see it here. Ive had another reply from ColC too, But cant see that here.Thanks
Rodneys query:
Author: Rodney
Comment:
I have a tevion TDR160HD (from Aldi some time ago like 18 months) and I still cannot even get it to work let alone record. The system connection manual on page 11 completely beats me.The TV I have has got white and yellow inputs and outputs at the back. Any advice gratefully accepted
Rodney the fact they use micro-print on page 11 doesnt help, it would just seem to be you have used the wrong output connections, unless the TV is a bit retro and you will have the usual exercise of simply tuning in a station you want to assign it to with the PR knob or whatever its called on back of TV.
How far have you gotten, and what terminals on 160GB are you using for your outputs? Obviously you have an antenna with good signal on the antenna input.You’ll be using the composite-not the component terminals. You obviously dont have a stereo sound tv (one sound terminal only-white)
Yellow for video
White for “L” output to white-rimmed input on your set.
Yellow for video output on player to input on TV, and on the middle group of 6 terminals on player, this is the top right output”video”.Antenna source into player, and you may as well have an antenna output lead into TV antenna input, even though it shouldnt be necessary in most cases with the other connections, but have it anwyay.
Now your TV has an “AV” switch, so you can go back and forth between “TV” and “AV”? You need it to be on “AV”.
the “tevion” blue screen display should appear, but may not.
The variable here is what sort of TV you have. But if it doesnt appear, you have to tune in that display on a selected channel if you dont have an “AV” on TV, or possibly on the AV if you have one but it doesnt appear.
One you have that display, you are on your way. This procedure then becomes pretty typical even as if you were fitting up an old VCR, if you ever did one . I think this machines unlike most of the old VCRs do their channel tune themselves from the moment theyre switched on and have a workable antenna source signal. If you get your blue tevion background , but dont have channels responding, run an auto or manual channel scan again, by the procedure from the manual for that.
Yes, I know they can be perplexing, and the Chinese or Japanese or Korean english of the manuals never helped.
I was lucky the first one I set up in earnest was an early 90s Made in Japan vsg-260 AKAI, and it was the most logical VCR instal and instruction sheet I ever saw-it was up , tuned in, and recording 30 mins after i opened the box-with a retro 80s Thorn TV, and i am no techie.
and up to date TVs with full set of inputs including “component” or even HDMI plug are always easier to work with than older or retro ones.
But if your connections all check out, and you still cant get the basic display , if no “AV” channel on your tV the PR screwdriver knob on rear of set and /or the knob you use on front to tune in UHF channels is often the key to getting your set channel on the same “wavelength” as that basic blue “TEVION” appliance display screen.
Don’t even bother about trying to get one of these products fixed anymore….
Pebble Electronics went into the hands of Administrators at the end of January and they aren’t honouring any warranties… the Knox outlet in Victoria is shut up tight and has a big ‘For Sale’ sign out the front.
Aldi is selling a PVR without the DVD component from next week – see http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/2827_8312.htm
I think I’ll pop down to see who the new warranty people are for these kinds of products …
Thanks for the heads-up, Steve :)
Re: Pebble….Really?
although a very large impressive premises as such places go, jesus they were hopeless when it came to follow up on Tevion claims..I mean just the continual casually-given promises that could just be guaranteed would be broken.
My replacement DVD recorder I got in place of the PVR1100 is still soldiering on, Ive only recently actually started making a few DVDs with it, mostly using it as a PVR , but it does play up to hell when making DVDs, Id say a 50% success rate per attempt at best, with it turning a blank into a drink-coaster othertimes.
Usually some kind of error hitch will develop at the point you hit dub, it will crawl up to about 3% done and just stall…or else it will rip through the dubbing process quickly but some kind of final hitch will occur during finalisation of the disc, making it unreadable .
But nonetheless Ive gotten several discs loaded with TV shows out of it which have been passed around and worked well.
Apparently the maximum average life of the hard-drives in them is about 12 months if you are lucky from feedback, and its only a few months short of that now.
the other machine Im using is an OMNI D550 HD PVR bought off ebay…bought from a buyer who bought it but never opened it and used it, good price,
apparently theyre closely related to Wintal machines (which likewise clutter the landfill with returned units) anyway despite some anxious moments a couple of times when its frozen, it actually performs very well at recording and playback. Likewise, bought in September, apparently its on borrowed time on average as well…anyway, if it simply kept going as it is, the satisafaction rating would actually be pretty high.
Hopefully if the hardrive packs it in post-warranty it will still be able to be used as a HD STB.
Apparently warranty claims from TopBuyAustralia the ebay agent are very iffy as well.
Ive gotten the plumbing up to transfer HD files from the OMNI down into the Tevion where they can then be made into DVDs, as well..it works well so far as the transfer process goes.
I have a Tevion TDR251HD DVD Recorder. Am having trouble copying from HDD to disc. Comment comes up ” not enough space on disc” even though it is a blank disc.
I have a high failure rate with it on making discs, it makes a lot of drink coasters, even though still capable of making a disc successfully, it seems to do better with some brand blanks than others…I got some called Mag Media a while back at a Newspower sale, and it fails almost every time with those, even though they work ok in my computer writer…whereas Phillips brand it seems to usually succeed with…
it will either simply freeze a few % into the writing process, say at 3%, and just nothing else happen, or something will go wrong at the “finish” process , even though it seems to work, the disc is useless.
Sometimes the bung disc will playback in the computer reader, but not in any TV DVD player…
Still, im new to putting things on DVds and Ive had a reasonable amount of work out of it it is now just on 12 months old..(supplied as warranty replacement for the infamous TPVR 1100s by the infamous Pebble.
I need the instruction manual for the tevion HDD 250x. Somehow mine got lost and can’t work the HDD.
Can anyone send me a copy???
My Tevion 251 HDD DVD recorder keeps coming up with the following message on LED display:
35HIFE When this has occurred before I’ve suspected that HDD is full . By turning on power switch on unit and then back on again it allows me back into unit. This time when i do this one of 2 things happen:
1. Nothing at all
2. The “HELLO”” greeting just keeps flashing for ever
When I fluked getting into the unit it will not record any programmes
Any ideas, especially the 35HIFE bit?
Is the Tevion DVD Recorder a set top box aswell? I’ve lost the manual and need to set my parents one up for digital TV. When i scan the tv channels it only picks up the normal channels, not the digital ones….Can anyone help????
Thanks
No, it is not a DTSB…250 and 251 have no digital or HD digital capacity at all.
Ironically it was given to me as a warranty replacement for a PVR1100, which is a digital PVR..they actually threw in a Conia STB (not HD) so that , in theory, I could put the DSTB between the antenna and the DVD recorder and thus record digital.
an awkward arrangement, it works, but has disadvantages and is a cumbersome set-up.
But no, 250 and 251 will not be able to get you ABC2-22 and digital 7, 9, 10,
let alone HD 70, 90 and 1.
No use for that. A cheap STB and you can combine them, although the problem then is the normal basic STB cannot switch itself on and off and select its channel to a timer program, so to timer record back from it you have to leave the DSTB on and set to the one channel youw want the recorder to input.
You probably only wanted a simple yes/no, sorry about that.Simple response is “No”.
Still wrapped that mine is even still going, actually, functions well as a HDD recorder, a little iffy at making actual discs. Works every second time, maybe.
Both it and the OMNI 355 HD PVR are still plunking along…both are over 12 months old, now, so I keep my fingers crossed.
Taking bets on which fuqqs up first.
They work well together, too, as the HD Omni can record a ch 70 or ch 99 or ABC-22 program for example then play it back into the Tevion 251,to make it into a disc.
Can anyone out there send me a copy of the manual for the DVD HDD 250X. I’ve lost mine and can’t use this machine now. I lost the manual not long after I purchased it over a year ago and had hardly used it so have no idea how it all work. I am confident using a Panasonic HDD but this system seems very different.
Cheers
Thank you Patrick for your answer…. very helpful!!! :)
Do you have it basically set-up, at least?
clock and channels tuned in?
if so I can walk you through the main button functions.
Yes Patrick I have it set up in a basic manner. would be great if you could talk me through it
Cheers
K Dean
Alright, if your remote is the same as mine, there should be a button “Timer” in a group of 7 buttons just below centre of remote. Pressing that brings up a list of timer programs currently set, which to begin with you will have none showing, a blank list. Scrolling to a blank line and hitting ‘enter” should then take you to a screen for setting a new timer program. The usual sort of operation of setting “source” as they call it , which is mainly your TV channels but also includes external port sources, in other words AV connections inputs.When your program, time, channel date and pressing “ok” sets this.
When you have completed a recording, or several, pressing button HDD/Dubb will display those. Highlight your item and pressing “enter” will commence a playback of it, pressing right arrow will display other optional operations on that file, such as delete, play, rename the file, split,(break a file into parts including editing out unwanted parts which can then be deleted) combine(rejoin broken pieces or several files into one , etc etc..
Patrick
I am looking for a manual for the Tevion 250GB HD the model number is TDR251HD
I e-mailed Medion and they said it is not their product to ring ALDI the customer support said that the manufacturer of this unit has gone out of business so I am stuck anychnace you could point me in the right direction
much appreciated
Regards
Bob
now once you have a file you might want to burn to DVD, or several, the first stage of that operation is bringing up your list of files, again, via HDD/DUB button, , then to select them, highlight the file, and press the ADD/CLEAR button, will put an icon beside the file to show it has been earmarked for recording, if you make a mistake, and out an unwanted item on, highlight it again and press that button again, is it both adds and removes items from the about to burn list.
Once ur happy with the items you have to burn to disc, ur ready to dub, which the HDD/DUB button also doubles obviously as the button to commence the first phase of burning.
Off it should go, and it is a pretty slow old operation if your disc is anywhere near full, a percentage marker should appear on top left of your tV screen,and gradually change from 1% through to completion.When completed to 100%, that usually just disappears, it doesnt really notify you.Presumably, if everything has gone well, it hasnt errored out or frozen or whatever, which is not unusual , you are ready to “Finalize” , which is another of the 16 small buttons on lowermost of RC.
thats a much shorter operation.It will ask you if ur sure you want to finalise as then no more can be added etc etc..then a short finalisation process begins .
Note that when you are setting up to record TV programs, or any recording actually, you have a choice of 4 or 5 different ‘qualities” to record in, which is pretty important as it only seems to make a very minor difference to your quality but makes a very dramatic difference to how many hours of material you will be able to get of such files onto your DVD disc. So I use the lowest quality, which I think is ELP or something similiar, SP and HQ being at the rich end of the scale.
and those are the two major operations you are likely to do with the thing, there are other buttons on it Ive never used and dont really know what they do.Its AV inputs it has S-video, which doesnt seem terribly useful, and SCART, which should be useful but I put a input up to its scart socket but there seemed to be no reception, and another called RSVB I think it is, and thats the most useful one, if an DSTB is connected to that socket , and that selected via “source” button or during program setting, you should have contact and a recordable signal via that source.
“title” button is for when its being used as a DVD player, that should bring you up your front menu on your disc.
it has a PiP picture in picture function, of course, which can be very handy. A ‘subtitle” button which is pretty self-explanatory.
a “GOTO” button which is supposed to be able to take you to whatever dial-in time-point on your DVD playback you want to resume…the explanation of it in the manual is completely Chinglish incoherent and Ive never been able to make that function work properly yet.
It can record direct to blank disc push-button recording too, of course, i imagine you just push the “record/OTR” button, but ive never done that, all my recording is via Timer.
I just got the TDR251HD from my dad as he no longer needed it.
Works great and is also great for putting all my old VHS tapes on – especially the kids stuff for my 1 year old. Only problem is the dvd’s burned from it dont work in any other player at all….can anyone help. I want to be able to put all the old kids movies onto disc and send them with my son to Aunties, Nannas etc.
Cheers,
Adam.
I struck the same problem when I first used it, maybe its the same cause..
Question: Have you finalized the disc/s b4 removing them and attempting to play them elsewhere.?
You have to press “finalize”..if you have already removed them, you should still be able to put them back in player and press ‘finalize” and the process will still be carried out.
Then they should work in most if not all other DVD players…including your computer DVD-rom if u have one.
DO NOT BUY A TEVION UNIT….they were made and marketed by PEBBLE ELECTRONICS who are now DEFUNCT. Further the products are ALL SHIT……dont function correctly and are continuous trouble. Try hooking up to foxtel and your in for another rude shock.
NOTHING BUT CRAP AND SHOULD ALL BE PUT IN THE DUMP….then what do you expect for peanuts made in china??
thanks for that scientific assessment. Yes, Pebble Electronic were a perpexing washout as a service agent, on the other hand, ALDI did all they could to prompt Pebble along, until they collapse.
I dont know if Pebble is anything to do with the manufacturer of Tevion, seemed to me to be just a large but disorganised local service and warehousing concern who hooked up with ALDI to sell and back up Tevion PRC electronics.
Tevion are probably no better or worse than other obvious cheap Chinese brands, there was that old saying that you get what you pay for, but actually in this category, you might not. You can buy top brand such as Sony, in this type of machine it is still likely to be made in China, and the failure rate is still high.
Some Tech-snob tried to recommend Wintal stuff to me, while knocking Tevion, they come from the same factory, I think, and Wintal blogs are full of complaints.
the replacement Tevion ‘251 unit DVD HDD recorder and DVD recorder I was given for the failed PVR-1100 , is still plodding along approaching 18 months later, of regular use.
It might blow tomorrow, so might a top brand top price one in this category, its obvious you take pot luck with the hard-drive chips, and they for one thing do not like heat.
Ive done my best to keep both of my hard-drive recorders as cool as possible .
with this stuff, and DVD players like Highlander, Ive had my moneys worth, basically, can everyone who pays 3 times as much for Sony or Panasonic say the same?
I would like to know what the a Universal Remote Code is for the Tevion TPVR1100…
If not I need to purchase one for I can’t get one from Aldi the supper grocer…
Honestly with Pebble going broke you would think Aldi would look after their costumers better than this, no help what so ever… stiff…
Can anybody help please… Thanks in advance
Hi all again, no replie so far on my first request.
Now I’m looking for a copy of the TPVR1100 User manual, can anybody direct me to a source of some kind..
I am still waiting on a reply fro the “Supper Grocer” on assistance on this HDRecorder but I won’t hold my breath for I wont expect any assistance from Aldi what so ever…
I have purchased 4 Tevion Set top boxes (One broken down), 1 DVD player, 1 Microwave oven (Returned 2 times for repairs till they refunded my money), 1 HDRecorder (Can’t get a replacement or other kind of assistance from Aldi) oh yes, Aldi have offered to refund me my money on the HDReorder IF I can produce the receipt, I think close to 2 years of purchasing it seems a little silly, besides the HDR had broken down after the warrantee had expired (12 months) and I had given up on the unit., but I managed to fix the problem after reading a piece in a forum to do with re-initializing and reformating the 250gb hadrive thanks to the author, now I have lost the remote to operate the system. Can anyboby help… Thank you again…
I will find it very difficult in purchasing Tevion products from Aldi again… “That’s telling them”
to my own surprise,
checking through drawer through all old manuals and remotes,
I actually have both items I believe you are seeking. …:)))???
instruction manual Tevion TPVR1100, and Tevion remote TPVR1100…the remote has very little use as my pvr1100 packed it in in 3 months I think it was.
Postage within Australia would be $5.90 (I do a lot of posting parcel items for ebay, so I know what im doing with despatch.)
On the items,I dunno, you nominate a price that you think is a good find for both of us.
Unlikely to get anywhere with poor old ALDI, as as you say, Pebble went under, were useless bastards, and the Tevion brand if it is still viable I dont think is still even the ALDI AV brand anymore, theyre flogging some other stuff now ?
Hi Patrick, yes I am interested but as we all know although I seemed to have got some sort of response from the PVR1100 I don’t know if it works, hence the need for the manual and the remote that does most of the programming, so therefor the unit might be DEAD, with that in mind and some $180 odd down the drain I am after the bargain basement department if you get my gist … hahhahahah
Your call… How do I find out where you are etc… for I am new to this forum…
Cheers mate…
Have you still got the unit itself? broken or whatever?
Guy..post your email contact.
Ok, I’m not sure if this is where you want it posted, here I presume…
[email protected]
Thanks Patrick
I too are having problems recording by timer and getting the 35HIFE code in the display and stops working, any help please
Patrick, I haven’t heard back from you on the Tevion remote and manual… any more thought?
Patrick, I haven’t heard back from you on the Tevion remote and manual… any more thoughts?
We don’t have a remote control for our Tevion TDR251HD DVD Recorder…does anyone know where or how we can purchase one? We tried using an “One for All” remote but it didn’t wrk…thanks in advance :)
I too have lost the user’s manual for the Tevion 250 GB HDD. Anyone have a copy they can scan for the couple of us missing ours?
Hey Polly…
Are you still after a user manual for your Tevion PVR1100?
Where are you and if the same model maybe can arrange one for you…
Cheers
Guy
My unit has started playing up … when recording to HDD, it will start recording, but some time during the recording it will freeze. I can hear that it’s still recording (quiet little HDD noises) but it doesn’t seem to finalize the record, and the only way to break the freeze is to hard reboot it, which deletes everything it was just trying to record.
I think I’ve just lost Good Wife/House from tonight. But before I switch the unit off, was just wondering if anyone knew of a way to break the freeze …?
OzFree
Funny thing I was going to post the same problem with exactly same issue has developed on mine….developed mainly a month or so ago now.
But it isnt consistant, doesnt happen every time, in the last week, several programs recorded without hitch.
I dont think anything can be done, it is similiar to a complete computer freeze where all you can do is cut power.
One thing I have noticed, is that it is more likely to freeze if there is a DVD etc disc in the slot, than if you keep the DVD empty when not in use.
BTW, I’ve got the Good Wife, plus half of house, on the Tevion ( I set my recorder to 10.05pm in case of 9.00pm starts on Good Wife) …but what I do when i miss it, or most other US shows, is just identify the episode number and download it on u-torrent.
Anyway, Ive had almost 2 good years of service out of this machine, and it has been kept pretty busy. I have a backup OMNI 550gb PVR HD machine which is permanently connected to the Tevion 251 in case I want to transfer a show from PVR to DVD recorder, and put it on a DVD.
Both machines are approaching 2 years of frequent use, so I cant really complain, even though the Tevion is obviously now not going to be 100% reliable on timers.
What i am actually considering next is a HD DSTB which records onto an external hard-drive.
In that way, the most vulnerable component likely to fail or cause issues, the HDD, is external and portable, and can be replaced quickly at will…1Tb external harddrives now being down to about $90 in some places.
Yeah, it doesn’t happen every time on mine either. First encountered this issue about a year ago, then several months later … now it seems to happen for me about once a month, usually on a Sunday, probably has something to do with the long record on a Sunday … Sunday Night, 60 Minutes, Good Wife, House, V … including lead-in and lead-out to make sure I get the beginning and end, it has to cope with about a 6-hour session on Sundays. It can handle shorter records better, I’ve found.
Interesting that they’re failing in similar ways at similar times … do you think it’s the HDD failing now? I had thought maybe it was some internal computer component that was seizing …
I couldnt say for certain if HDD, but that would be my best guess, is HDD glitch.
Let me also point out that if mine is going to freeze, it will be at the very first moment of the program, when it is ” a recording is about to begin” with the little rotating slash counting off the seconds, when it freezes is usually the very first frame of actually beginning.
I record judge Judy on a Mon-fri timer, and if it goes wrong on that one as is a frequent time it goes, it will freeze with a frame from the last moments of the cooking program which precedes Judy frozen in time.
the annoying thing also, each time it happens, is that unlike the OMNI HD, this thing does not reset its own timer.
so each time the clock and date have to be reset.
Fortunately it doesnt lose its timer joblist or its existing programs already completed.
Ahhhh, mine’s different. Mine froze partway through V – I was trying to play back another show while it was recording. It only ever glitches when I try playback during a long record. If I had stopped the recording after House and before V, and then started a new recording for V, it wouldn’t have had this trouble, and I would have been able to playback too. And with the freeze, it ends up tossing out everything it was just recording, not even remembering a single frame.
So similar, possibly related, but different freezing problems that we’re both having…
Installed new 250gb in tevion tdr250gb but “hello” just flashing and Tevion display just changing. Is this formatting? been doing this for 5 hours. Does HD need to be formatted to Fat32 or some other trick? Thanks.
Hi guys, any updates on this little gift, is the dvd drive still working????
i have a tevion dvd hdd 160. now problem i have is hhdd went now it wont let me stick eny other in even if its a 80gb or 500gb. keeps saying no hdd. and all i have bean reading on net is like stay away from them. just wondering if eny body has pic of the inside of them so i can see where the hell i have gone rong. ime geting to the point to change all ide leads. pls nead help thanks
Ive got one but my unit is still working in regular use (which is probably
unusual, only issue it has is that once in maybe every 7 or 8 timer
recordings it will freeze as it switches on, especially if a DVD is in the
player) there is a good chance that someone on this blog whos unit is
defunct will offer you their manual, or I can make scans of the pages or
sections you mainly require, if it helps.
unit still working 90% ok, about 3 years along, with a lot of use.
occasional freezing of HDD when a timer recording is starting up…mostly but not always when a DVD is also in the player.
When this happens, that scheduled recording is missed, and unit has to be powered down, powered back up, date /clock etc reset.
It records SBS 6.30 news for me every night, and Judge Judy every afternoon.
No, ALDI is completely done with the Tevion brand and the now-defunct Pebble Electronics distribution and warranty service network.
Not even sure if Tevion still exists as a new brand at all.
No doubt it is simply rebranded as something else, maybe even whatever AV brand ALDI is carrying now.
My TD250 continues to soldier on, im watching its recording of last nights World News as I type this…the PVR1100s were the real piles of crap that almost all failed within a few months.
does anyone know where I can get a replacement remote control for my Tevion TDR251HD please? I have a universal tevion rcontrol model 3512 but cannot get it to work. Also a manual for a Tevion TDR930 unit please. Can the dvd players in theses DVD recorders be replaced by a generic model as the TDR930’s player tray does not open. Would appreciate some comments please on my problem. Thanks