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LG - RHT397H - 160GB hard disc drive digital TV recorder and DVD recorder with 1080P up-scaling - Advanced time shift - pause and rewind live TV | 
| Brand: LG Electronics
Category: CE
List Price: £229.99
Buy New: £185.99
You Save: £44.00 (19%)
New (5) Used (1) from £156.72
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 3144
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10.9
Dimensions (in): 19.4 x 14.9 x 5.1
MPN: RHT397H
Model: RHT397H
EAN: 8801031304455
ASIN: B0018BOAP6
Release Date: April 23, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Up to 463 hrs recording on HDD | | • | 8 day programme guide | | • | Super multi DVD recorder | | • | HDMI 1.3 with 1080P up-scaling | | • | Pause and rewind live TV |
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Product Description
LG RHT397H DVD RECORER LG digital TV recorder with 160Gb hard disc drive and DVD recorder. Receive up to 40 digital channels and record 463 hours worth at the touch of a button; The LG RHT397H makes it simple easy and no tapes or disc required
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| Customer Reviews:
Good but not great - let down by niggles. August 30, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I struggled to find any reviews of the unit before purchasing, but downloaded the manual and all looked good.
First the bad: -
The output can be upscaled to 1080p, but this can only be done by pressing the resolution button on the front of the unit. This is fine until you realise that if you loose power to the unit or switch power save mode on, the unit forgets what res it was last set to and defaults to 576i - very annoying as you can only set this when the box isn't playing anything back and using the front panel button - there is no remote button or menu to change resolution.
The EPG guide takes time to load, which, if you want to record a program quickly is a pain. I think I have now sussed this out though. If you switch channel on the unit to BBC1, the EPG seems to load all info. If you have the channel set to something else (like Dave, Virgin1, ITV4 etc) only some of the EPG will appear and I can almost guarantee that the info for the programme you want to record won't be there! Arrgh!
As mentioned in an another review, The Series Link via EPG simply does not work. To use Series Link, from the manual: -
Press HOME and select TV option. Press v V to select the [Timer Record] and
press ENTER to display [Timer record List] menu. Use v V to select [New] and
press ENTER to display [Timer Record] menu. Adjust the each field as
described below using v V b B.
[Media]: Choose a media to record (HDD or DVD).
[CH/PR]: Choose a memorized program number, or one of the external
inputs from which to record. (You cannot select DV input and radio channel.)
[Date]: Choose a date up to 1 month in advance.
[Start Time]: Set the start time.
[End Time]: Set the end time.
[Repeat] Choose a desired repeat (Once, Daily (Mon-Fri), or Weekly).
Recordings from EPG menu will always be set to [Once].
It's the last line that's important - any recording done via EPG will only be recorded once. No Series Link. If you want to record a series via EPG, you need set a simple recording and then edit the timer list as above and choose the correct repeat method. Pants.
The small buttons on the remote are quite fiddly compared to the supersize TV remote my LG TV has. Also when playing back from HDD, the skip buttons on the remote, actually skip to the next recorded programme - not the next chapter. Why?
Now for the good.
The unit looks very stylish and sits well with my LG TV. The simplink feature is great as I can do lots just using the TV remote. The quality of the recording is very good and the upscaling seems to work very well - the difference between the TV channels and the upscaled output (1080p via HDMI) is noticeable. The unit is very, very quiet and I cannot hear it under normal use.
I do like the unit but there are things that just niggle. I can only hope that a software update at some point will fix these issues but I'm not holding my breath - current firmware 080415A is from April (i'm guessing) with no signs of updates anywhere yet.
So overall the unit is good but it is let down by silly things that just haven't been thought out.
 Series Link does not work August 29, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The manufacturer's specification on the LG website and the product manual talk about being able to use series link in the EPG. However after a number of calls with customer support they have confirmed that this facility actually doesn't exist and in order to do a repeat recording you need to use the manual timer.
 RHT397H review July 3, 2008
36 out of 37 found this review helpful
Already tried a Philips 5500 which went back for crashing twice in the first day!
This LG unit is in a different league, it does everything well and looks the part, everything is very logical and intuitive, you don't need the manual too much.
You can play DivX/XviD from DVD or copy to the HDD and play from there. Similarly USB directly or to local HDD but shame is the port doesn't provide enough power for my 2.5" SATA but it works fine with an external PSU. It supports FAT/FAT32 and does the long filename thing so you don't get stuck with 8.3 filenames. The DivX/XviD playback and your own recorded programmes seem separate such that you can be recording freeview and watch normal TV from the HDD but not something DivX/XviD.
Freeview tuner and 8 day EPG is brilliant, you can record a freeview programme to HDD and clip ads then dub faster than realtime to DVD. You can also copy home-made DVD's to the HDD, edit and dub back. It writes to -R, -RW, +R, +RW, -RAM, +R(DL) which seems to be the lot and can playback all these plus VCD and audio CDs as well as WMA files.
Nice touch when you go into menus the picture fades to black and menus fade in from black, the fonts used are also easy on the eye with no square edges and look great on screen. I haven't got an HD set so can't confirm how well the HDMI does. It can even provide 5V out on the aerial socket to power aerial amps.
Everything else functions as expected and the response is quick. Remote seems a little cheap but is compact and can operate the volume/channel, power and AV selector on a few TV manufacturers (fine with my Sony).
Can't find anything to criticise really, a great unit indeeed, very pleased with it.
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