Toshiba D-VR5 DVD Player/Recorder with VCR

MULTI DRIVE DVD RECORDER W/VCR HDMI

You can play discs burned with MP3 and WMA digital audio files, and it's also DivX Home Theater Certified--meaning that it's compatible with video burned to disc using both the DivX video format. You can also view photo slideshows from Kodak Picture CDs with JPEG images. PCM audio translates digital signals from your DVDs and CDs into warmer, natural sound. The DVD player offers Dolby Digital and DTS decoding, and you can connect to a multi-channel home theater surround sound system via the coaxial digital audio output. It records onto DVD-R/RW as well as DVD-RAM discs, and it's also compatible with playing CD-R/RW and VCD discs. It also produces 3D virtual surround sound from two speakers. Other VCR features include 8-event/1-month programming and auto channel setup.

The DVD recorder allows you to record TV programming while your out of the house with a timer function, but it also offers easy one-touch recording. It supports all ATSC formats--standard (SDTV), enhanced (EDTV), and high (HDTV).

Component video (also called Y/Pb/Pr) features a three-jack video input, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. You get six compression modes for DVD recording from 1 hour to 6 hours of video onto one disc. With a DVD-RAM disc, you'll be able re-record content approximately 100,000 times.

What's in the Box DVD player/recorder/VCR, remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions You will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound.

DVD-RAM is the most flexible of the recordable DVD formats when it comes to recording, editing and playback. To adapt 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video, frames in the original movie must be duplicated; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this duplication by removing the redundant information to display a frame-accurate picture.

You get vivid, realistic sound, thanks to Toshiba's 24-bit/96 kHz pulse code modulation (PCM) audio processor. The D-VR5 makes it easy to connect to brilliant imagery with its component and HDMI connections--the latter offering pure digital audio/video performance with no degradation of signal.

The VCR features 19-micron heads that match precisely the width of the SP and EP azimuths and read only the signal recorded on each azimuth (not adjoining tracks). Get maximum enjoyment out of both your VHS and DVD movie libraries with the progressive scan Toshiba D-VR5 DVD player/recorder with integrated full-featured VCR. Other recording features include automatic title/chapter/thumbnail creation, time base correction, and auto finalization. It can reduce the video from a DVD (MPEG-2) to around 10 percent of its original size while still retaining good video and audio quality, enabling you to store several two-hour length movies on burned DVD media.

HDMI is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver) with your TV--all over a single cable. It features the following video and audio connections:

• Composite A/V: 2 in (1 front), 1 out
• S-Video: 2 in (1 front), 1 out
• Component Video: 1 out
• HDMI: 1 out
• RF: 1 in, 1 out
• Digital audio: 1 optical

Tech Talk DivX is a compressed digital video format (like MP3) that's based on the MPEG-4 video compression standard. HDMI supports standard, enhanced or high definition video, plus multi-channel digital audio on a single cable. Playback features include fast forward with audio (1.5x speed), fast scan, and slow motion.

The D-VR5 performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal, too--a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format.