Sony SLVD570H DVD VCR Combo Player with HDMI

.com Slim down your home theater cabinet with the Sony SLV-D570H DVD/VCR combo player, which features HDMI output for cleanest possible transfer of digital video and audio. It plays just about any video disc format out there, from DVD-Video to DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW. The player also handles audio CD, VCD/SVCD, and CD-R/RW discs filled with MP3 music or JPEG image files. The front A/V inputs add convenience when you simply want to quickly view those newly recorded videos from your camcorder. Its full-featured, hi-fi stereo VCR allows you to record your favorite shows while watching a DVD. Auto clock and channel set-up makes recording of your favorite TV shows easy--just pop in a VHS tape and press record. Other VCR features include 8-event timer recording, two record settings (SP/EP), quasi S-VHS playback, four 19-micron video heads (for optimized EP recording), and flash rewind. Sony's Precision Cinema Progressive technology uses a 12-bit video DAC (digital-to-analog converter) with high-bandwidth, 108 MHz processing to detect image changes at the pixel level, rather than at the level of whole scan lines. That makes this player's picture more faithful to the source--whether film or video--because it uses separate, optimized algorithms to handle different pixel behaviors. Separate algorithms are also used to process the moving and still parts of an image, resulting in sharp

Highlights: Combo DVD/VCR unit with HDMI video output for lossless digital DVD playback Playback support for DVD-Video, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, VCD, SVCD, CD-R/RW, JPEG CD, and MP3 CD VCR can record programming while DVD plays; 8-event recording Video connections: Composite A/V (2 in, 2 out), S-Video (1 out), component (1 out) Dolby Digital/DTS output via digital optical audio output

What you can expect: Combo DVD/VCR unit with HDMI video output for lossless digital DVD playback Playback support for DVD-Video, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, VCD, SVCD, CD-R/RW, JPEG CD, and MP3 CD VCR can record programming while DVD plays; 8-event recording Video connections: Composite A/V (2 in, 2 out), S-Video (1 out), component (1 out) Dolby Digital/DTS output via digital optical audio output

Customer feedback: 3.7/5 average rating.

Review snippets: We love only having one extra video player. This set works well and DVD images are spectacular. If even makes original Scooby-Doo videos crystal clear on our 50" Plasma. When switching to the HDMI signal there are times you have / Now I can play my DVD collection and old VHS I still have Read more