Magnavox MDV530VR DVD/VCR Combo
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Manufacturer: Magnavox
Price at amazon.com: $99.99Usually ships in 24 hours
List price $169.99
- Space-saving DVD player/VCR combo unit with MP3 and JPEG CD compatibility
- Front-panel audio/video inputs foster easy hookup with a camcorder, gaming console, or second VCR
- Composite-, component-, and S-video outputs for flexible DVD playback with compatible TVs; single-output DVD/VCR operation (RF, composite)
- Dolby Digital/DTS surround and linear PCM passthrough from coaxial digital-audio output
- 4-head VCR offers S-VHS playback, auto-head cleaning, time/index search, trilingual onscreen display
Product Description:
Watch movies from VHS tape or from high-quality component-video DVD playback, view digital-image slideshows, listen to audio CDs with crystal-clear sound, or play your homemade MP3 CDs through your living-room speakers--all from one affordable, space-saving device. The Magnavox MDV530VR also lets you record off-air in hi-fi stereo sound and watch your camcorder or hook up your gaming console through its convenient front-panel audio/video inputs. Picture-CD functionality includes one-by-one playback and image zoom. The VCR's four-head design ensures smooth slow-motion play (forward and reverse) and clear still-frame images, and with hi-fi sound the unit records and plays back stereo audio tracks. Its 19-micron heads deliver the clearest possible picture when recording or viewing in EP (extended-play) mode. VCR Plus+ simplifies advance programming, and SQPB (quasi-S-VHS playback) lets you watch S-VHS tapes, which normally requires a special S-VHS VCR, at standard VHS resolution. Other features include timer recording, auto head cleaning, auto repeat playback (great for trade shows and presentations), time and index search, and one-touch recording. Connections with combo units are often inconvenient, forcing you to use separate video hookups for each section (DVD, VCR), a problem for some TVs. This player has it figured out: a single RF or composite-video connection to a television will display either the DVD or the VCR signal, depending on which format you're viewing. If you want to view DVDs in S-video or in component-video, you'll need to use two separate inputs for DVD player and VCR, however, as the device will not upconvert the signal from the VCR to either of those higher-resolution formats. A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel DVD/VCR audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions, and there's a second stereo pair for DVD-only analog out. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's coaxial digital-audio output (DVD-only) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. If you don't have a surround receiver or six-channel speaker setup, you can still make every movie night the ultimate experience: the unit simulates surround sound through two speakers (even the stereo speakers on your TV). What's in the Box DVD player/VCR combo, remote control, remote batteries, user's manual, stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable, and RF audio/video cable.
From the Manufacturer Who says you can't have it all. The Magnavox MDV530VR/ VCR-DVD combo plays DVD, Video CD, Audio CD, MP3 CDs, CD-R/RW discs and is a 4-head HiFi VCR. It sounds great too, since it includes Digital Audio Outputs (LPCM/Dolby Digtal). This system includes composite and S-video outputs for flexibility and has front A/V connections. The VCR has an auto head cleaner, plays S-VHS tapes, and records in SP, LP, and SLP. The on screen display even comes in three languages: English, Spanish, and French! ... read more
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The VCR's four-head design ensures smooth slow-motion play (forward and reverse) and clear still-frame images, and with hi-fi sound the unit records and plays back stereo audio tracks. Its 19-micron heads deliver the clearest possible picture when recording or viewing in EP (extended-play) mode. VCR Plus+ simplifies advance programming, and SQPB (quasi-S-VHS playback) lets you watch S-VHS tapes, which normally requires a special S-VHS VCR, at standard VHS resolution. Other features include timer recording, auto head cleaning, auto repeat playback (great for trade shows and presentations), time and index search, and one-touch recording.
Connections with combo units are often inconvenient, forcing you to use separate video hookups for each section (DVD, VCR), a problem for some TVs. This player has it figured out: a single RF or composite-video connection to a television will display either the DVD or the VCR signal, depending on which format you're viewing. If you want to view DVDs in S-video or in component-video, you'll need to use two separate inputs for DVD player and VCR, however, as the device will not upconvert the signal from the VCR to either of those higher-resolution formats.
A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel DVD/VCR audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions, and there's a second stereo pair for DVD-only analog out. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's coaxial digital-audio output (DVD-only) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. If you don't have a surround receiver or six-channel speaker setup, you can still make every movie night the ultimate experience: the unit simulates surround sound through two speakers (even the stereo speakers on your TV).
What's in the Box
DVD player/VCR combo, remote control, remote batteries, user's manual, stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable, and RF audio/video cable.Average Customer Rating: 
Comment: WORST PURCHASE I EVER MADE Rating:
This unit stopped working completely after 7 months. All I had used it for was to play DVDs. In total used less than 20 times for DVD only. The 1 year warranty was a lie. After 3 months you have to pay to replace it. They wanted $99.99 to replace a unit that has sold as low as $89.99 at the warehouse club. I wish I could rate this a zero. I don't give it any stars.
I will never buy anything from Phillips Magnavox ever again.
Total rip-off.
Comment: ZERO STARS! Let's Start the Class Action Suit Now! Rating:
I bought this unit as a gift for my wife on her birthday. It hasn't even been a year and this thing is starting to screw up. Won't record from the VCR properly - that's basic stuff. Similar problems developing that others have compained about. Had to replace it with the Magnavox VCR that's 10 years old and going strong. These guys have destroyed they're brand with me and apparently many others. I am NOT going to pay practically full price for a freaking replacement. I give you my word that I will spread the word on this company and NEVER purchase a product from them EVER again. Let's start the class action suit now! - JT
Comment: Mine is still working great after a year...hmmm... Rating:
First of all, I don't understand why everybody is complaining that their Magnavox MDV530VR DVD/VCR combo suddenly broke down on them. Maybe these reviewers don't know how to use an electronic equipment, but who knows why it broke. I bought it brand new last year in May, and it continues to play every DVDs and VHS tapes that I own without any glitch or flaw. This Magnavox MDV530VR DVD/VCR combo is pretty much similar to the Philips DVD750VR, except that the Magnavox has no progressive-scan output.
I like to inform all the angry reviewers with their bad experience on their Magnavox MDV530VR. Please be aware that Philips and Magnavox do not make these DVD/VCR combos. Philips ask Funai Corporation to make and supply them with DVD/VCR combos to sell under the Philips and Magnavox brand, so don't pick on Philips or Magnavox as an unreliable brand. Funai currently makes Symphonic, Sylvania, and Emerson products.
The main reason for purchasing this combo is my positive experience with old Funai-made products. I still have my old 16 year old Symphonic VCR that has never needed repair since new, aside from belt change. I need a DVD player for my TV, so I bought this Funai-made Magnavox DVD/VCR for myself.
I find the picture quality acceptable in the Magnavox MDV530VR. Just pop in a DVD or VHS movie, and I'm good to go to enjoy the Blockbuster night with my trusty reliable Magnavox MDV530VR DVD/VCR combo.
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