Lite-On LVW-5045 160GB HDD+DVD Recorder Review

Posted: 5/17/2005

"To many advertisers' dismay, VCRs changed the way people watched TV over 30 years ago. Recording a show and watching it later allowed viewers to fast forward through commercials and watch only what they wanted to watch. Today, it's only gotten better (or worse, depending on what side of the commercials you are on) with products like TiVo and home theater PCs.

If you aren't quite ready to have a PC in your living room, then a TiVo or other hard drive recorder would make a great DVR (digital video recorder) for you. With its 160GB LVW-5045, Lite-On enters the hard drive recorder market with an affordable offering that has a lot of potential. The LVW-5045 not only features recording to hard drive but also to DVD and CD media, building on the capabilities of the LVW-5005 I previously reviewed."

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Posted by anonymous on 6/7/2005 11:11:00 PM

Posted by anonymous on 6/11/2005 7:28:00 AM

It makes very much noise because of the HDD. The channel listof the tuner is erased when the unit is unplugged. I had many problems with the video signal in the SCART to the TV while the timer was working. I solved some problems with a firmware update, but I'm not very happywith this.

Posted by anonymous on 11/13/2005 10:23:00 AM

I have been trying to open the updated zipped firmware for my new Liteon 5045, but all I keep getting is the dreaded message that the file type is not recognised. Has any one else come up against this problem and if so how did you get around it. Sparks

Posted by anonymous on 3/27/2006 7:47:00 PM

Make sure you do the following: 1. Unzip the firmware update and burn the unzip file to a CD or CD-RW 2. When you place the CD in the LiteOn 5045, make sure you switch to the appropriate source by pressing the source button. This should take you to the screen to contunue your firmware update

Posted by anonymous on 9/13/2006 4:16:00 PM

My original unit died. It was replaced by a new one, and now HD on the new just died. Liteon, never again.

Posted by anonymous on 11/4/2006 11:34:00 PM

WHY I CANT RECORD ON DVD+RW BLANK CD DIDNT NOT RECOGNIZED IT.. ANY ONE HELP...

Posted by anonymous on 12/11/2006 10:51:00 PM

THE UNIT (LVW 5045) WAS NOT TO BAD ON THE BEGINING. IT TOOK SOME TIME TO LEARN SPLIT,RENAME ETC... BUT NOW AFTER 1 YEAR USE, 1 OF 3 DVD DISCS COPIED FROM HARD DRIVE IS NOT PLAYABLE IN OTHER DVD PLAYERS.THE PICTURE STALLS AND SHOWS DIGITAL CHECKER BOARD SQUARES. SHOULD I GO TO REPAIR OR BUY OTHER BRAND? ANDREW J.EDMONTON, CA imail JARONI@SHAW.CA

Posted by anonymous on 6/9/2007 10:34:00 PM

LVW 5045 worked as advertised for a year. Clumsy for average consumers, but ok for geeks. All customer support disappeared soon after purchase, the DVD drive failed after year with no replacement drive of same model being available and substitutes also out of production. Will probably throw it ($300.00) away. After reviewing many forums, I got impression that Lite-On quality control and customer support is very poor to non-existant. Apparently they did well with CD R/W drives, but have failed to master the DVD R/W and consumer product hurdles so that the company's products should be avoided.

Posted by anonymous on 6/25/2007 8:45:00 AM

The DVD drive would not play more and more DVD's, it got to a point where the unit was extremely noisy and would only play 1 out of 2 discs. Picked up an LG drive from PC world, set it to the correct region using my PC, fit it in to the 5045 with some modification. bob's yer dog, works a treat. It would also be very easy to replace the HD.

Posted by anonymous on 10/23/2007 12:20:00 PM

DVD RW IN 5045 QUIT CANNOT GET PARTS - THANKS FUTURE SHOP AND LITEON (NOT)

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