It baffles me that the digital video recorder hasn't caught on with mainstream consumers. Everyone I know who's spent 10 minutes with one of these gems is instantly addicted. It has a VCR's functionality, a digital cable box's user-friendliness, and a...

Based on my experience with the Pioneer Elite 7000 dvd-rw I will never again buy any Pioneer product. After having not used it to record for quite some time I went out and bought some new 1x/2x dvd rw's. I put the dvd-rw in the drive and it spun for ...

This was my first TiVO box ever. I had been pushing off till HD TiVO/OTA model would be available as I don't want Sat a connection. So I finally decided to go for an existing unit that had OTA/Coax when the price came down. Boy howdy has it ever. The ...

After months and months of researching which DVR and/or TiVo to buy I finally settled on the Pioneer DVR 57H over all else, even Pioneer's other DVR. I do not regret paying the extra cost. Real world experience has shown that a 40 GB hard drive will ...

I found the DVR-57H extremely easy to setup. Setup time was probably 45 minutes for the initial setup. It is important to understand in my opinion, that this maybe a home audio/video piece, but for all intents and purposes, it is a PC. It has a bios,...

I installed this unit about two weeks ago, and am perfectly happy with it. It replaces my Philips type 1 TiVo, with 14 hour’ s recording capacity (which , three years ago, I thought would be quite enough!). After much comparison shopping, I ordered...

I have owned the DVR-57H for several weeks now. To say I am disappointed would be an understatement. I bought the 57H as a replacement for my old TiVo series 1. My old series 1 was fairly quiet (in spite of my adding a 2nd drive for a total of 95GB ...

Other than its forboding price, there is nothing scary about the Pioneer Elite DVR-57H DVD. It is, in fact, built upon the standard Tivo software, which is designed to make life easier for its users. The unit serves as a DVD recorder, ...