Editorial Review:Item Description:Enhance your home theater experience with an incredibly sharp picture and a crisp digital sound. Daewoo DVD players allow you to play an audio CD or enjoy your favorite movie. Incorporating the latest technologies, Daewoo DVD players are second to none when it comes to performance and quality. Experience your own digital dream with a Daewoo DVD player.The DVR-S04 is a Daewoo DVD & VCR Recorder. It is capable of DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-RW, VCD, SVCD, CD, MP3 and Kodac Picture CD.
Amazon.com Item Description: Daewoo's versatile, space-saving DVR-S04 combo recorder lets you quickly and easily transfer your personal video from VHS tapes to recordable DVD+R and DVD+RW discs, preserving your cherished footage for years to come--all with a single component. Setup is simple and connections are minimal; the DVR-S04 is optimized for one-touch transfers from VHS to DVD or vice-versa, copy-protection technology permitting (you can't copy the latest blockbuster movie to videotape).
The unit will also play your CD-based MP3 music files and JPEG digital photos, including Kodak Picture CDs--nothing like a custom slide show in the comfort of your living room. If you've got music and pictures on the same CD-R or CD-RW, you can even select an MP3 music file to play in the background during your slideshow.
In addition to making it easier to transfer directly from videotape to DVD, the DVR-S04 uses LSI Logic's Direct Digital Dub technology. Direct Digital Dub simplifies digital content transfers from a camcorder (DV or other media) to the DVD recorder via an IEEE 1394 (DV) connection. Simplifying the process, Direct Digital Dub lets you control the camcorder with one touch via the DVD recorder's remote control.
Additional advantages include LSI Logic's proprietary pre- and post-processing technologies, TrueView Pro and TrueScan Pro. These motion-compensation-based technologies provide advanced progressive-scan output and impressive noise-minimizing on signals passing through the unit's analog inputs.
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.
Front-panel inputs make spontaneous connections a cinch, whether you're hooking up a camcorder, a digital camera, or a second VCR. The unit also offers an RF coaxial antenna input and output, 1 each composite-, component-, and S-video outputs, and a choice of 2 digital-audio outputs (coaxial or optical) for passing Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround signals to a compatible audio/video surround receiver and multichannel speaker system, the ideal accessories for your movie viewing.
What's in the Box DVD player/VCR, remote control, remote batteries, a user's manual, a stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable, an RF coaxial video cable, a blank DVD+RW disc, and warranty information.
Customer Reviews
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* The \"New and Improved\" DVRS05 ...
Just got this unit from Costco at what I thought was a reasonable price. For all the headache I've had from it all day, they should have payed me to take it.
As other reviewers have said as per the dvd portion, the unit constantly locks up, doesn't recognize remote commands, doesn't pay attention to what the directions say it is supposed to do, etc. I was unsuccessful at getting the +RW to even play, although one can tell that something got recorded on it. So far I am quite disappointed and will take it back and try again. I can see that since others have had similar problems right off the bat that maybe I'm wasting my time. Maybe, though, I'll just happen to get one that actually went through Quality Control. If anyone knows of another machine for about the same price that WORKS, please email me.
If you think this review was scathing, just wait till the next one turns out to be a pile of junk.
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* Pretty good machine for the value, despite some flaws ...
This is the first DVD Recorder/VCR Combo I've had a chance to use, which I got for $249 at Fry's. I've used it for a few weeks now and am fairly satisfied with the results, despite a few system flaws.
It serves its purpose well, recording to DVD from TV or VCR is done with sufficient ease and efficiency. The features and options of this particular brand are practically no different than any other, but the on-screen display menus and GUI are nicely designed. I especially liked the time-bar at the bottom that shows how much recording time remains when burning to DVD, depending on the speed setting. In these areas the DVR-S04 excels indeed.
Here are some of the problems I encountered. The first time I recorded to DVD I used the blank DVD+RW packaged with the machine. In the process of overwriting one of the recordings it froze up and I could no longer use the disc. Fortunately it was just a test recording and didn't lose anything important. Since then I've used plain DVD+R discs and they've all turned out fine. In the process of editing some of the discs though I ran into some system errors and could no longer record to the discs, leaving me no option but to finalize the disc and it'll play fine. This only happened like 3 times maybe, out of 30 successfully burned discs. Also sometimes when the power is turned off and put into standby mode, it'll lockup and I had to unplug and plug it to turn it back on. These may just be defects with my machine only, I'm not sure.
The only permanent problem that I can assess has to do with editing the chapters on DVDs. You can add chapters anywhere into the titles on disc, but once the disc is finalized the chapters I added would mysteriously disappear. Not sure if this is intentional or a glitch, it's kind of inconvenient but not a huge problem. Changing title names and index images are a snap.
There a few other personal nitpicks I could quibble over, but they're really not worth mentioning. VCR functions and playing domestic Region 1 DVDs work fine. Not perfect, but overall it's a solid product for the price tag. If you can find it for the same value I would recommend buying it.
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* A great value! ...
I have had no problems at all. And because it has progressive video output I could get rid of my old DVD player and save the room and connections. It is also nice that it supports both DVD+R and DVD+RW.
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* A Disappointment! ...
I was so excited when I finally got this machine in the mail, but my excitement soon faded. This unit started giving me trouble within a day of using it. It would constantly lock up and would not respond to the buttons on the front panel or the remote. When I tried to do what the manual said to do in cases like these, nothing happened, and when I called technical support for help - they were USELESS. The last straw was when I popped a DVD in the tray and the machine would not play it AND it would not release it. I ended up returning it and getting another brand. Stay away from this machine.
