My mum owns a Lite-On 5005 DVD recorder that she has been using for the past few years to record from TV. But recently it has been acting up a bit. It will often not accept blank media, or it will fail to read an already recorded disc.
I took a look at it today and on opening it up discovered the drive is connected using a standard IDE cable and molex power connector. So... it can be replaced with a standard PC DVD-RW.
I've done a bit of digging around some DVD forums and some are saying the recorder will only work when the drive is replaced with another Lite-On, and then only specific hard to source models. While others are saying they have had success with Sony and LG drives.
So I thought I would try one of my DVD-RW PC drives with the unit and see what happens.
Has anyone else tried replaced the DVD drive in a set top DVD recorder? And if so did you have any success?
I will let you know how it goes.