Amazon.com Product Description Enjoy your favorite DVD movies as well as the ability to record programming and home video footage directly to disc with the Toshiba D-RW2 progressive scan DVD player/recorder. It 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 records onto DVD-R/RW discs, and it's also compatible with playing CD-R/RW and VCD discs as well MP3 and WMA digital audio files burned to disc. With the JPEG Viewer, you can easily display your favorite digital photos and create custom slideshows with a few simple clicks of the player's remote control. The interactive Digital Picture Zoom feature allows you to select an area of the video from a DVD and magnify it.
You get six compression modes for recording from 1 hour to 10 hours of video onto one disc. Other recording features include automatic title/chapter/thumbnail creation, time base correction, and auto finalization. Playback features include fast forward with audio (1.5x speed), fast scan, and slow motion.
The D-RW2 performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal, too--a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format. 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/192 kHz pulse code modulation (PCM) audio processor. 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 also produces 3D virtual surround sound from two speakers. 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
RF: 1 in
Digital audio: 1 coaxial
Tech Talk 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 will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound.
What's in the Box DVD player/recorder, remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions
Product Description The Toshiba D-RW2 features ColorStream Pro Progressive Scan Component Video Outputs to deliver enhanced color purity and image detail. In addition to preset bit rates and audio setting for six levels of recording options and easy Off-Air Recording with advanced timer programming functions. One line input, front A/V and S-Video input, and RF input for dubbing content from multiple sources. Auto finalization completes DVD recordings automatically to simplify the completion of the disc. DVD-Video/CD/ Video CD/VCD playback. DVD-R/DVD-RW /CD-R/CD-RW SVCD compatible playback ensures discs made with a personal computer can be played back in the home theater system too.
Exactly What I Wanted - AlmostDecember 24, 2007 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
NOTE: This recorder is great, if you have S-video or RCA jacks on your TV. If your TV only has an RF coaxial cable connection, you will need an RF modulator to watch anything...I missed this originally.
If you are just looking to replace your VCR....this is the unit for you. I you have a 27 inch TV or smaller....perfect for you. If you want high quality video for a big screen....you need to find something else.
Only two negatives. One, the menu it creates for a DVD could use a still from the video, but it does not...minor, but it is a nice feature most units come with... Two, record modes are 1 hr, 2 hr, 4 hr etc....no 3 hr option....this is disappointing.
Good Product. Good Price. Just remember it is DVD-R and DVD-RW only. I purchased DVD+RW by mistake.
Friendly easy to useNovember 28, 2007 Very easy to use record and edit program. Perform as expected. Good equipment at a good price.
It works !!November 22, 2007 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I needed to replace an aging VHS, and was tired of crappy recordings. My TV is a Sony, with basic cable input [no cable box]. No HD.
The Toshiba hooked up simply, the same as the VHS. The manual was complete, and understandable. Recording is simple, and works well...the 6 hour mode comes out just fine, as good as any VHS.
I've recorded on DVD-R, and DVD-RW. No problems, save a cut off third show on a three show recording onto a DVD-R... I'm sure this can be overcome by switching to a 4 hour record mode. Said DVD-R was playable on my JVC DVD player.
Note that a DVD is a different animal than a VHS...you cannot re-record over a track, instead you have to go in and delete it. Titles can be given to multiple recordings on the same disc. Closed captions may not record.
This unit was described as "entry level". I sure wouldn't want one that was any more complicated...you can do many, many things with editing and recording...8 shows a month ahead of time. Those who were critical must have more complicated systems to satisfy, or need HD, or something.
I couldn't be more satisfied, esp. for the money !
DVD RecorderMarch 26, 2007 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great product.Easy to use took me about a half hour to get things working.
Great quality at 1 or 2 hr modeJanuary 30, 2007 5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The quality is great at 1 or 2 hr mode however I find the quality unaceptable at 4hr or higher. If you use DVD-rw I have found the quality improves using verbatim 4x media as opposed to memorex 2x. The unit does get very hot during recording which is not a good sign of a long lasting machine. Also blank media life expectancy has been rated to be lower when discs are exposed to exessive heat. There is no 3hr mode or any in-between quality modes it's 1,2,4,6,8,10 - the 8 and 10 hr modes cannot be finalized to be fully DVD player compatible, however I would not condsider thoes modes anyway since 4hr mode looks rather bad. If you have a 2hr 30 min movie you will have to record using the 4hr mode. I find the unit great at recording 2hrs and under. The price for what you are getting is decent, although I have heard from another tekkie review site that this unit is not actually made by Toshiba?
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