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RCA DRC8005N
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With its VCR-like ability to record, its crystalline MPEG-2 video encoding, and its progressive-scan video output, the RCA DRC8005N DVD player/recorder is a pro at both of its primary functions. You can record your favorite television shows and home videos straight to a DVD, cleaning up aged video footage in the process. With the unit's convenient one-touch record feature, capturing off-air programs is simpler than ever. The DRC8005N records in six modes, storing 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 8 hours of audio/video programming on 4.7 GB recordable DVD+R (write-once) or DVD+RW (rewritable) media. And, when using timed recording, the DRC8005N can automatically set its quality level to the best that its available hard-drive space will allow. Time-base correction and digital noise reduction optimize incoming signals as their being written to disc. The "RW" format offers numerous advantages. These discs can be played in most computer DVD-ROM drives and DVD players, and they let you append, edit, and overwrite video right on the discs themselves. This means you can record video using the DRC8005N and record data with a PC drive, all on the same disc. There's only one recording mode for both video and data, and the finalization time for a DVD+R is the fastest of all DVD formats. Special features include title and chapter creation for easy access to recorded materials; chapter hide/unhide, which lets you skip playback of selected sections of a recording; text title labeling; user-selectable disc write and title-write protection, and quick disc erase. Recorded discs will play on most DVD players, and the unit itself plays all types of DVD and audio CD. More than just a recording device, however, the DRC8005N is also a first-rate media player, offering MP3 music file decoding and Digital PhotoView, which displays JPEG files (from recordable CDs only) in a rotating slide show format--with MP3 playback during the slide show! A USB input lets you hook up a flash card reader enjoying digital photos and MP3 files right off your card--no need to first commit the files to CD. The recorder also offers progressive-scanning when playing back prerecorded DVDs. Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DRC8005N is equipped to deliver the full potential of prerecorded DVDs. Progressive scanning, called 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts. The DRC8005N features Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround sound passthrough, SRS TruSurround simulated surround sound, and connections include 1 set of component-video outputs, an S-video input and output (2 inputs, 1 output), composite-video input and output (2 in, 1 out), stereo (left/right) analog audio in and out (2 in, 1 out), and a pair of digital-audio outputs (one each optical and coaxial).
Features of the RCA DRC8005N include:
- DVD Type - DVD Recorder
- Playable Video Formats - DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD, SVCD, DVD-RW, VCD, DVD-R
- Playable Audio Formats - MP3, CD-RW, CD-R, CD
- Progressive Scan
- Number of Discs - 1
- Display Dimmer
- Surround Sound - DTS, Dolby Digital
- Parental Control
- Audio Outputs - RCA, Optical, Coaxial
- Video Outputs - Composite, S-Video, Component
- Remote Control - Universal
RCA DRC8005N Consumer Reviews
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Reviewed by HoustonAerosFan on 02-16-2006
Piece of junk! It worked OK for about 15 months, since then increasing incidents of hanging up in general and bad burns in particular (a few were salvageable on the PC, most were not). This is using discs from the list of recommended DVDs. One more bad burn, and it's going to fall off the roof of my house. RCA used to stand for quality. When I was a kid we had RCA TVs, radios and record players and they were all fine. Now RCA stands for cheap, foreign made junk.
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Reviewed by Tuxedomoon on 03-21-2005
I like this deck a lot! BUT (and there always is one...) When playing back a regular store-issued DVD I get an occassional WHITE FLASH on the screen - just a blip and it's gone - like a camera flash going off. I can track back to the spot, but the flash doesn't repeat. I've seen it happen up to 4 times during a regular 2+ hour movie. AND this is my second RCA deck to do so. But still - I'm thinking of hanging on to it.. maybe it's just a new electronics/old DVD issue... maybe someone with similar experiences and remedy can advise me... I'm hanging on to it because at this price it is a wonderful performer - set-up is easy - the remote is a bit small - but well laid out. And the quality of recordings is similar to decks 2X the price. I'd give it a rating of five if it weren't for that pesky FLASH thing... Oh.. and the cables you get are worthy hanging on to for a while. After returning my first RCA (because of the flash) I tried other decks (Including a Philips *YIPES*DANGER*DANGER*) and NONE came packed with a fair quality A-V RCA interconnect, let alone an S-VIDEO cable. It's well worth rolling the dice on this one.
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Reviewed by Jim Vestal on 10-08-2004
I bought this at Sam's club for $100 less then Amazon, $199.99.
This is my 3rd DVD recorder and it's the charm. This one is easy to use and has more then enough features for me and the quality of the records in 2-3 hour mode is very close to the original. I'm totally satified and recommend this.
I used it only as a recorder so far, to record from my Directv Tivo. I don't plan to hook it up to cable or antenna so I haven't checked the quality of the tv tuner but I know it's stereo unlike other brands that have mono tv tuners. I also haven't used it as a DVD player I use my other DVD player to play the dvds I record.
I hook up the tivo to the recorder via svideo and audio left and right hookups, then run the output for monitoring the video only to a tv input.
I go insert DVD+RW disc and setup the tivo program for archiving to VCR and hit record on the recorder, everything works.
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Reviewed by Tai F Wang on 09-27-2004
This inexpensive dvd recorder is easy to use and comes with almost all the cables and accessories you need to hook up to your entertainment center.
With one click and you can record TV programs while watching something else on another channel. The quality is better than VHS but still not as good as commercial DVD. Maybe I don't have HDTV feed. The resulting dvd can be played on my other dvds and home pc. I haven't have time to use the USB feature to record mp3 and jpeg files yet.
So far I'm very pleased with the purchase.
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