Editorial Review:Product Description:Zenith Electronics is focused on the digital future, building on a proud heritage of leadership in entertainment products for the home and professional markets.PRODUCT FEATURES:Slim and Stylish design;Recording Flexibility - full RW compatible recording on DVD?R/RW media;Multi-Format Playback - plays DVD?R/RW, DVD Audio/Video, CD, CD-R/RW, MP3, JPEG and KODAK Picture CD;Easy Editing - edit your home movies for a more professional touch;Picture in Picture (PIP) - an inset window allows you to simultaneously watch television and a DVD;Enhanced Connectivity - connect your DV video camera via IEEE 1394 and transfer your home movies directly to DVD;Progressive Scan Video Output - video data is processed faster and sequentially to produce superior, crisp, clear and cinema-like images;Quick Set Up Guide - easy to follow instructions guide you through initial set up and installation.
Amazon.com Product Description: Treat yourself and your living room to the attractive DVR413, which will give you the power to time shift your TV viewing and share your home videos with friends and family. Zenith's silver, second-generation DVD recorder lets you archive VHS or camcorder footage to long-life recordable DVDs or record your favorite TV shows directly to disc. It records to DVD-R/-RW and DVD+R/+RW discs, encoding audio in 2- or 5.1-channel Dolby Digital surround sound, and it offers a variety of video editing functions. Its progressive-scan DVD playback abilities include compatibility with DVDs, CDs, CD-R and CD-RW discs, and CDs loaded with MP3 music files.
The DVR413's handy, front-panel audio/video jacks simplify connections with camcorders, VCRs, DVRs, and other devices, so you'll always be ready to create a new masterpiece. Inputs include composite-video (with accompanying stereo analog RCA inputs), RF coaxial (accommodating antennas and older VCRs), and a front-panel digital-video input. The recorder digitizes your video sources in high-quality MPEG-2 (the same format used for commercial DVDs), with either 2- or 5.1-channel Dolby Digital encoding for the audio.
Recording features like disc project creation, title delete, A-B delete, program move, chapter/program combine, auto/manual chapter creation, and file naming make it simple and convenient to configure your projects.
Playback features include 4x and 6x moveable zoom, variable high-speed scan (2x, 4x, 16x, and 100x), parental locks, bookmarking, 20-track CD programming, and repeat and resume play. The DVR413 is also equipped to deliver the full potential of your commercial and recordable DVDs when viewing on a high-definition or HD-ready TV. Progressive scanning, referred to as 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. Interlaced composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television.
For the simplest hookup with your TV, you can use a single RCA composite-video connection to handle both DVD and VCR outputs. If you want a higher-quality connection from the DVD player, you can use a component- or S-video cable to an additional input on your TV. You can choose between an optical and a coaxial digital-audio output to feed a surround-sound signal to your Dolby Digital- or DTS-decoding audio/video receiver.
If you don't have a surround receiver or 6-channel speaker setup, you can still make every movie night the ultimate experience: the unit simulates surround sound through 2 speakers (even the stereo speakers on your TV).
What's in the Box DVD recorder, remote control, 2 AAA batteries, a user's manual, a stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable, an S-video cable, an RF coaxial AV cable, a registration card, and warranty info.
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Customer Reviews
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Nice Recorder
I really like this DVD recorder..Picture quality is great...It seems to be a nice recorder for 99.00.
I was looking for something to convert all of our home videos to DVD's...
Very easy to use and set up was not too difficult...For the price I would recommend it.
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Many hardware failures - don't buy
* I originally purchased this unit because of the multi-format recording capabilities and low price. It was unfortunate that I did not research available reviews on this unit before purchase which then gave me justified concern as to potential hardware problems. My unit had several hardware malfunctions finally ending in an unusable unit after only a short period of use. The problems began almost immediately. Being an electronics technician, in my opinion most of the issues seem to stem from heat related malfunctions. I first noticed that the video out had problems after the unit was on after about 10 hours. The video out appeared snowy like poor reception, contrast issues, and something similar to loss of video synching. After turning the unit off and waiting a day the problem seem to disappear. This malfunction occured several more times, each after the unit was on for more than 4 or 5 hours. The first time I tried to burn to DVD without pause for more than 3 hours (in the 3H57M recording mode), the unit would prematurely stop recording as if it ran out of recording time. The screen would be frozen on the message that it was writing the menu to disc as if would when normal recording were halted. I would have to turn the unit off in order to get out of that screen mode. When this happened, the disc that was being recorded to would no longer be recognized by the unit as a valid disc so each time the disc was ruined. I could simply not record for more than 2 or 3 hours without failure. Then I made the mistake of accidentally leaving the unit on overnight. The next day I found the video out to be totally unusable and the picture being barely recognizable. Turning the unit off to cool off, even for a day or more, no longer made a difference - the video out was permanently shot. I see at time of this review that prices on these units have dropped $400 down to $99. Do not be tempted to buy! The price drop may be due to stock clearance but it's probably the only way this piece of junk can be sold. Had this unit not experienced hardware failures, I would have been mostly satisfied with it's performance and features but experiencing hardware failure within hours of first use ending in a useless broken unit after less than 20 hours of aggregate use is appalling. ...
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DO NOT BUY
Do not buy this product, it cannot play VCD or SVCD also last week I expend a lot of time making a home video (DVD) on my computer and I cannot play it on the recorder, called Zenith and they told me the recorder is designed not to play computer made DVDs, the player will only play DVDs recorded by itself.
Go get something else.
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Don't Buy this product!
* You guys better listen, if you buy this item, you will be very sorry. I've had this thing returned, and so called repaired, and it still only DVDs 50% successfully. Try to get help from those useless fools at Zenith is a total waste of time. This, with out a doubt, will be my last item I'll buy from them. They moved to Mexico and have become one of the worst names out there. Their TVs now are made badly.
This unit is so bad, I can't say enough bad things for it. If you need to have a machine that make coasters for you, this is it, because you never know if it will ever work. Some days you maybe lucky and get it to work and somedays you are better off just turning the thing off. ...
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Welcome to Lemon Ville
I don't know if I have a lemon or not, but it has been in the shop more than I have had it. It is now on its 3rd repair. Last time, they replaced the mother board and some other components. The first time, they replaced the DVD recorder drive (with a rebuilt one). IThe machine was purchased in July, did not use it until end of August and worked for only a month. I have no small children and I am a videophile who has been recording since the very first betamax. Here are the problems I have:
The timer recording works only about 50% of the time, but if you turn the machine on manually, the timer kicks in. Sometimes when I record DVD's for just a few minutes and change my mind, the recorder reads the DVD as full and will not record further on it. This last time, it started something new (after all the new parts), I hit record, the counter goes to 00 00 00 and it stalls right there. It will not shut off, open or anything; it is literally frozen. Unplugging renews it!
Basically, it is not a machine I can count on. The only saving grace I can see is that I can transfer my vhs tapes to dvd without worrying about the copyguard and even that can get temperamental.
Zenith is absolutely no help. Every time I call, regardless of the day or time, I get a message to leave a phone number and someone will call me back. So far, I've left phone numbers three times and no one bothers to call. So much for tech support!
Hedda
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