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Pioneer DVR-531HS Digital Media Recorder with TV Guide Onscreen Programming Guide and 80GB Hard Drive | 
 enlarge | Brand: Pioneer
Category: CE
Buy Refurbished: $399.99
Used (1) Refurbished (1) from $399.99
Rating:  5 reviews
Hard Drive Size: 80
Shipping Weight (lbs): 14
Dimensions (in): 16.6 x 10.8 x 2.4
Archive your favorite TV Shows.
MPN: DVR-531HS
Model: DVR-531HS
UPC: 012562752013
EAN: 0012562752013
ASIN: B000FLF8W4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Over 170 hours of progrom recording in Super Extended Play Mode. | | • | TV Guide Eight Day On Screen Programming Guide makes setting recordings a snap! | | • | High Speed and Multi-format DVD recording. | | • | 80 GB Hard Drive for hours of recording capacity | | • | Free Onscreen Programming Guide - NO MONTHLY FEES! |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
This Digital Media Recorder provides over 170 hours of program recording in Super Extended Play mode and allows easy programming via the on-screen program guide powered by TV Guide. The TV Guide on-screen guide provides a full weeks worth of viewing information for every cable channel that is carried on your basic tier. Chase playback allows you to watch ANY program that you have already recorded while a program is being recorded on the hard drive. It will even carry listings for your digital channels but you must have a digital cable box to record those channels. This DMR also allows you to burn your true favorites onto DVD for archival purposes. The remote control for this machine can also be programmed to control your TV to help cut down on remote control clutter!
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| Customer Reviews:
 Pioneer DVR-531HS May 15, 2008
R. Wheet
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bought the unit about 3 years ago. It rarely if ever finds the TV Guide. It will constantly cycles through the cable box looking for the TV Guide channel. If you wish to manually change the clock, you have to do a COMPLETE setup of the entire unit. So, if you have the TV Guide channels reordered to your liking, you have to do everything from scratch. The clock on the set does not always match the clock on the recorder (sometimes there is an hour difference... sometimes not... I always start prescheduled recordings an hour early, just in case)...
After about 1 year, the TV Guide navigation went out and all that be seen is pixel garbage. All recording henceforth have to done manually and you have to remember the exact order of the input, since the screen is unreadable. The rest of the DVR/DVD works correctly.
I still use it since it was only purchased to record one show for my wife. If you are watching a show it will record it with no problem.
Editing and all other functions are easy to use... but forget about the TV Guide section since it will not find it and there seems to be a common reported problem where the TV Guide chip goes out...
 Where are they now? February 1, 2008
M. Greene (Derby, KS)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We bought ours at Wal-Mart two years ago, and paid under $400. Haven't seen them, or anything with a hard drive since. It works great, as advertised. We'll record a show on the hard drive, and if we want to save it, burn a DVD copy. It works like a TIVO for watching a show as it's being recorded, then pausing, fast-fwd, etc.
So why aren't these on the shelves any more, and can only be found for $1200 new?
 One of the best gifts I ever got! December 5, 2007
J. Black
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
My husband bought this pioneer dvr for me almost 2 years ago. At first I was questioning the cost. I had one 2 dvd recorders and hated how slow they were so I went back to a vcr.
The product has become a part of my everyday life and as silly as it sounds made life better.
First, there are no fees and compared the what my friends get with the paid subscrition I see little difference.
I have the dvr set to record my favorite daily and weekly shows. It is easy to to set the recording. basically you have the tv on the channel you want to record and hit the listing button and select the show and recording speed.
the other nice feature is if the kids ask real quick to have me record a program, it is a simple one button record. Then recording a from the hard drive to a dvd is just pressing a few buttons. If I record a 2 hour program I can make a dvd of it in under 6 minutes.
I have had no issues with this dvr. In the past I had dvd recorders freeze up or be slow but this dvr has always worked great.
What is also nice is you can watch one channel or program on the hard drive while another records.
I feel the one time investment was worth it. I live in the mtn time zone so primetime starts early when the kids are still up. It is so nice to have everything recorded and watch when the kids are in bed. It is greatthe amount of time saved from not watching commericals. I honestly do not know how we lived without this.
Really good product for the money May 16, 2007
Patrick E. Kilcoyne Jr.
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
The only problem that I have had with mine is that sometimes it takes weeks for the TV Guide to download. But usually everything is up and running fine.
It records your favorite shows for you everyday to let you watch them at your leisure. The best thing about it compared to a VCR is that it keeps a record of the title, channel, date and time of every show you record so you can go through the menu and pick out the ones you want to watch.
I burned 20 episodes of the Simpsons to a single DVD the took it to work with me to watch it (I recorded in the lowest quality possible in order to use the least space). Finally I got sick of seeing the same episodes over and over again so now I don't record the Simpaons anymore.
If you buy this unit you won't be disappointed but you might want the 160 GB model because the disk fills up fast, especially if you are reluctant to delete programs.
listings died right after the warranty ran out March 27, 2007
Glennard
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This was a great unit, lots of great features for recording to hard drive and copying to DVD. But shortly after the warrany ran out the TV Guide function stopped working. Not just a download problem, which it encountered every month or so, but that whole function won't even load now. Can't even schedule recording mannually because that's integrated into TVG as well. Pioneer wants me to ship it to them and pay $70 to figure out IF they can fix it. I've been very happy with other Pioneer gear I own, but the the TVG function of this unit is a lemon and when it went south it took 90% of the usefulness with it.
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