Best DVD Recorders
1080P up conversion from HDMI output.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I thought about taking the 100 VHS tapes I have to a professional place to get it done, but at $25 a pop ($2500!! You can't watch and tape TV through it (no tuner), but we have a DVR with our satellite dish, so we didn't need that. I thought about getting a Toshiba, but several reviews seem to indicate that it was a bit more difficult to dub. After looking at reviews, it seems that not all recordable DVDs are created equal. I ended up ordering "100 Taiyo Yuden/JVC 8X DVD-R 4.7GB Silver Thermal Lacquer DVD-R." These appear to be the best quality and last the longest. I put the VHS in one side, the DVD in the other and just press the "dub" button on the remote."
"You can record from TV with the correct discs if you are also a satellite or cable customer (external tuners)."
"Installation looks intimidating at first glance but is really quite simple and unlike some competing machines this unit has several different ways to connect with televisions, other VCRs, cameras, cable boxes, et cetera, a feature I really appreciate. I collect silent films and early talkies for my personal use and have videotaped hundreds of them off TCM and similar stations; I have had no problems converting those old tapes to DVD-R. Also OOP television shows like the Science Fiction Channel's Destination: Truth, a marvelous program that for some inexplicable reason has only released Season One on DVD. The holding-my-breath-and-turning-blue reason is that Funai (a division of Magnavox I understand) seems a bit too concerned with copyright protection issues."
"I prefer using DVD-RW media as after finalising I can then take the file (the file format of this unit is VOB) to my PC and convert the VOB files (it makes one file per GB of data) to any preferred video format."
USB 3.0 CD drive provide faster data transfer speed, up to 5Gbps. Compatible with windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/8.1/10, Linux and all version Mac OS systems, supports any PC, Ultrabook and Netbook. 2 Please make sure the laptop is with sufficient power supply, a low capacity may cause the device can't be recognized. 3 The new released Windows system have discontinued the internal DVD media player software, customer using Windows 10 and above are advised to Install VLC Media player to Play DVD and CD. USB 3.0 DVD dirver is a perfect companion for computers without the internal drive. This external dvd drive equipped with brand new chip with strong error-correction ability, plays music and movies with no lag or distortion. With a lightweight body with brushed surface and an embedded USB cable mean the CD drive can be slipped in your travel bag, and hooked up at any time.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought this for my son for Christmas."
"More and more laptops are built without the internal drives, they also no longer included its device recognition software to run external DVD drives, so you will need to download a driver to get it to work. I really like my DVD Drive it works great and very simple to use."
"I bought this because my laptip has no cd/dvd drive, my wedding pic was stored in a cd rom, i’ve been looking for way to get the pic out, now this little device help, easy installation and now i can read my cd/ dvd content, thank you, i miss my wedding pics."
"The external drive is very useful as in case you don't have DVD drive in your laptop."
"Bought this for my daughter because her MacBook doesn’t have a drive."
"Why my new laptop has no cd/dvd drive, and I have a class in a CD that have to practice, i have to find a way getting a video from the CD, then i found my External CD Drive, now this device helps!"
"A third party software or drive may make the dvd player work."
"It started freezing s little and immediately came out of it but now it freezes for a long time and wont move anything. I am returning the item."
DVD/VCR Combo Players, Panasonic, DMR-EZ485VK DVD/VCR Combo, DMR-EZ485VK-RB. Enter your model number to make sure this fits.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Sadly, the manufacturer chose not to continue making this type of equipment going instead to Hard drives."
"I use Panasonic DVD/VHS recorder/player to record and playback TV programs."
"Received product in perfect condition because it was well insulated.."
"After cleaning all drives it worked very good (but not before that) It is exactly what I wanted."
"Looked for a long, long time to find a new one & I finally did."
"I recommend it highly, great customer service and satisfaction guaranteed."
"With VHS on its way out and DVDs approaching that as well I find myself converting technology from past to present easier with the VHS to DVD transfer modes offered."
"Can't get it to work with the cable box, have to call Panasonic to find out how to make it work."
Best External CD Drives
Pure-copper-knitted-net tech leads to smaller resistance, stronger shielding capability, more stable data transmission. USB 3.0 DVD dirver is a perfect companion for computers without the internal drive. High speed: Adopted unique intelligent burning technology, this CD-RW combo drive supported DVD+R, DVD-R, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"No drivers or additional software is needed to run this, so it is just “plug and play”. This DVD Drive also supports USB 3.0 data speed which makes it far superior to read and write with compared to other DVD drives in this price range."
"Sometimes, my wife wants to borrow some DVD to watch and her and my laptops have no DVD drivers."
"This external DVD burner is exactly what I needed…. This DVD/CD burner is small and light weighted, the cord you can see in the picture can put back at the bottom when not in use."
"Connected to the computer can be used directly."
"My car can only play CD, I need to use it to burn CD."
"This external CD drive is very useful."
"This external cd/dvd-rw works perfect on reading/writing cd/dvd on usb 3.0, just have little noise (due to the motor drive I think) when it doing its job.. for me it not perfect but ok. thanks."
"This device can recognize blank CD-R's but not blank DVD-R's. I can burn music and install programs, but I can't recognize blank DVD's so I can't burn movies to a DVD."
Best DVD Players
Experience near HD picture quality and solid sound in a compact design. Ultra Slim, New Mid Size Design, HDMI Output, 1080P Upscaling, JPEG, MP3 Playback, Multi Disc resume, Multi-band TV Remote, Energy Star.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I purchased this DVD to play movies on DVDs attached to a high definition SONY TV via HDMI cable. Photo #1 shows everything that came in the package: the DVD player, instructions, 3-RCA component video coax cable, remote and batteries. It is very light weighing in at 2 pound and 1.4 oz. Photo #3 shows the back panel and the HDMI cable (not included). I am showing the shape of the HDMI connector in case someone will find it helpful as it needs to be purchased separately. Amazon sells them at a really good price DVI Gear HDMI Cable 2M 6 feet. Standard definition TV set and regular DVDs have a maximum resolution of 720x576. The final image is not as good as tru Blu-Ray DVD, but I find it completely acceptable. When I tried forcing them on at another speed via remote control the player generates a message "operation not possible". Music: MP3. Supported extensions: --------------------. .mpg, .mpeg, .jpg, .mp3, .wma, .m4a, .wav, Supported disks: -------------------. DVD, DVD+-RW/+-R/+-R DL, Music CD/Super VCD, CD-R/-RW. RESTRICTIONS: --------------. Files with copyright protection (digital Rights Management) cannot be played. Lossless files cannot be played. The player cannot play images in DVD-VR mode with CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media). The player is designed to play disks with Compact Disk (CD) standard. DualDisks and music disks encoded with copyright protection do not conform to CD standard and may not be compatible with this unit. The player cannot play a video file of size more than (720 width x 576 height)/2 GB. The remote is compatible with the following TVs: ------------------------------------------------. Sony (default). Hitachi. LG/Goldstar/NEC. MGA/Mitsibishi. Panasonic. Philips. Pioneer. RCA. Samsung. Sharp. Toshiba. INSTALLATION: ---------------. 1. Plug in DVD into power and attach HDMI cable to the TV. 4. The tray operations smoothly, the quality of the display is good, the remote works well."
"Just got this dvd player and I must say im really impressed with the upscaling great quality. )Does not display dvd time on front of dvd player (but you can go into menus for this). 2. but if you want a cheap dvd player with great quality this is it."
"Based on our previous experience we did purchase the additional coverage in case the product fails within 2 years-just to be safe. We did a quick and easy Amazon exchange and so far this replacement machine has worked just fine."
"it's a great idea... nice and small... died after four months. Feb 19. Sent unit to Sony so they could repair it or replace it because it failed under warranty. March 6. Sony calls: they want me to pay $30 labor so they can send me a refurbished unit!"
"Of course the labor warranty ran out after three months. Well, they will give me a refurbished model if I pay to ship it to them and send them a check for $33 to cover the labor to repair the unit."
"A couple weeks after getting it, it stopped reading the signal from the remote (we had multiple remotes, all quit working at the same time)."