I can not confirm that the remote does not work with batteries that have just after reading a recession Extra tried (once Vata, once China cheap battery)
To cut out the advertising, if you want to archive the video on the PC, I recommend also prefer:
ProjectX (.jar) for demuxxen
Cuttermaran to cut and Muxxen
Here also there is no loss as Free Video editor, because it does not re-encoded, but it saves so installing unnecessary adware).
The only thing I noticed is negative (but is NEN luxury problem):
On my old Panasonic DVD recorder, it is possible to program not only daily, repetitive programs for recording, but to lay will also determine whether these only weekday or, to be recorded at the weekend.
Can not do! Here you can select only a day, so the example on Saturdays and Sundays is taken without the since the desired program runs.
But that's just a little thing, and perhaps something is still to come with a firmware update.
I can only recommend the device and am very satisfied!