Teac HDRM7250

Terrible – Don't buy it. Waste of money, Stay away from Teac. Even the latest one gives heartache! My brother has had his repaired after 2 months. None. Piece of garbage, hard drive replaced under warranty, now fan runs endlessly after turning off. Everything. Unreliable, poor picture, lucky I've got a Beyonwiz.

Good – I've been tollerating the glitches in this unit for several years, but I recently upgraded the HDD to a 500GB 7200RPM drive and its working flawlessly now. It can record two HD channels and play a recording at the same time without losing one or both recordings to blocking and audio dropouts as it did with the original stock HDD. For the $68 I had… Read more

to pay for a new HDD, it was well worth it, and upgrading was as simple as swapping the disks (note I needed a old 4pin power to new SATA power adapter because the new disk didnt have the old style 4 pin power plug)

This unit still has a great set of features and when it works well, its great.

Timeshift on this unit keeps going as long as you dont use the space for recordings, so you can go back several days (space permitting) and record from timeshift which is nice.

Exporting to a USB disk is limited to the Best set of features... timeshift more than 24 hours. Stock HDD is very poor performer and will cause issues.

Doesn't have a wireless network adapter.

1080i not 1080p.

Terrible – cannot get onto teac web site, had updated every thing now i am going to put it under the back wheel of 4x4 The one i had worked fine for two years now the hdd is noisy, locks up, what a peice of $#@!

OK – After all the effort it took to get this unit working properly (UPS, masthead amp, new antenna) I couldn't recommend it and would be reluctant to buy Teac gear again. Twin HD tuners, 250GB Harddisk, awesome picture quality when it works. Quite a few bugs. Requires clean, well filtered power. Ugly remote with colour coded buttons - hard to use… Read more

with a programmable remote.

Export of programs to PC via the HDRM7250 always results in a 'failed export'.

Terrible – Would not recommend this product. It drive me mad and worse still drives my wife mad - so i don't here the end of her frustration. Fantastic feature set for the money will suck you in. Very unreliable. Has had two hard drive failures, locks up and needs the power cycled. Poor pixelised recording if recording more than one channel at a time and/or… Read more

playing back concurrently. Haven't been able to export files. Recording timers cannot be ordered by date. Not enough USB power to run an external HDD.

Bad – Great machine that the entire family can use - though we do not bother exporting recordings. Requires power off form time to time after freezing. Have been very disappointed with two failures in 12 months (last one was one week outside warranty period but they relented and repaired) and am not looking forward to the next failure as it is coming… Read more

out of my own pocket.

Bought this for the great features and quality? HD size, ease of recording, picture quality. 1. Needs to be able to extend recording to a specified time AFTER programme finishes when selecting from the programme guide (as our programmes rouinely run over by 10-15 minutes).

2. Two failures (HD and main board) in 12 months!!!!!

Good – As of Feb 08, TEAC appear to have resolved most firmware issues that have plagued this unit and dropped the price below $600 making it a bargain buy considering the feature list. Connectivity Some bugs