Pioneer DVR-810HS DVD Recorder with TiVo Basic Service

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Manufacturer: Pioneer
Price at amazon.com: New from $569.00




Product Features:

• 80 GB hard drive stores up to 80 hours of TiVo programming; built-in DVD recorder lets you archive and share with long-lasting discs
• Hard-drive and DVD-RW disc content may be selectively edited
• Includes no-fee TiVo basic service and 3-day electronic programming guide
• Progressive-scan video output for HD-ready TVs, MP3-CD compatibility so you can listen to your favorite digital music
• 18x transfer speed from hard drive to DVD-R and DVD-RW

Product Description:

The Pioneer DVR-810H comes loaded with TiVo basic service--no startup costs, no monthly fees--as well as a spacious, 80 GB hard drive. But wait: it's also a full-featured DVD recorder and DVD player compatible with MP3 files on recordable CDs and with the latest high-definition and HD-ready televisions. The DVR-810H lets you control your live TV viewing, manage your broadcast recordings, and even archive your VHS cassettes and camcorder tapes to durable DVDs playable in most DVD players. Setup is simple, and finding and scheduling your favorite shows is a breeze. The DVR-810H's built-in hard drive stores up to 80 hours of material for short-term storage and viewing. Record off the air, from cable or satellite, or from your home movies. Have your way with live television by pausing it, reversing it, and playing it in slow motion. You can even watch a recorded program from the beginning, while the recorder simultaneously finishes storing that very recording. The DVD recorder comes equipped with a 181-channel cable TV tuner for instant one-touch recording to the hard drive. When you find yourself with a recording you want to watch again, you can keep it on the hard drive or simply burn it to a DVD-R (permanent, can't be erased) or DVD-RW (can be erased or written over many times). The DVR-810H features up to 18x record speed, so you'll be able to bounce a one-hour program to DVD in basic EP quality in just over three minutes. You can even record content to the hard drive while copying different content from the hard drive to a DVD. The DVR-810H also features PureCinema 3:2 Progressive Scan for a filmlike presentation when watching movies. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24-frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture. 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. (You'll need an HD-ready TV to appreciate this feature.) The unit is equipped to let you transfer old video content to long-lasting DVD-R or DVD-RW discs to preserve them for future generations. DVD-R discs are best for archiving because they are write-once discs and cannot be accidentally erased. Once you've loaded your content to the hard drive, you'll be able to edit it before burning it to DVD. The newly created DVD-R can be played back on most other home and portable DVD players, as well as DVD-ROM computer drives. You get a pair of audio/video inputs (composite- and S-video with stereo analog audio), and two sets of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio output (Toslink optical) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. An RF coaxial AV input and output help you interface with older TVs, VCRs, and cable boxes. What's in the Box DVD recorder/DVR combination unit, remote control, remote batteries (two AA), a stereo analog audio/composite-video interconnect, an RF coaxial audio-video cable, a 25-foot RJ-11 phone cord, an RJ-11 phone splitter, an IR control cable, a serial control cable (male DB9 to stereo minijack plug), an AC power cord, a user's manual, an installation guide, and warranty information.

Description from Manufacturer: The Pioneer DVR-810H comes loaded with TiVo basic service--no startup costs, no monthly fees--as well as a spacious, 80 GB hard drive. But wait: it's also a full-featured DVD recorder and DVD player compatible with MP3 files on recordable CDs and with the latest high-definition and HD-ready televisions. The DVR-810H lets you control your live TV viewing, manage your broadcast recordings, and even archive your VHS cassettes and camcorder tapes to durable DVDs playable in most DVD players.

Setup is simple, and finding and scheduling your favorite shows is a breeze. The DVR-810H's built-in hard drive stores up to 80 hours of material for short-term storage and viewing. Record off the air, from cable or satellite, or from your home movies. Have your way with live television by pausing it, reversing it, and playing it in slow motion. You can even watch a recorded program from the beginning, while the recorder simultaneously finishes storing that very recording. The DVD recorder comes equipped with a 181-channel cable TV tuner for instant one-touch recording to the hard drive.

When you find yourself with a recording you want to watch again, you can keep it on the hard drive or simply burn it to a DVD-R (permanent, can't be erased) or DVD-RW (can be erased or written over many times). The DVR-810H features up to 18x record speed, so you'll be able to bounce a one-hour program to DVD in basic EP quality in just over three minutes. You can even record content to the hard drive while copying different content from the hard drive to a DVD.

The DVR-810H also features PureCinema 3:2 Progressive Scan for a filmlike presentation when watching movies. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24-frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture. 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. (You'll need an HD-ready TV to appreciate this feature.)

The unit is equipped to let you transfer old video content to long-lasting DVD-R or DVD-RW discs to preserve them for future generations. DVD-R discs are best for archiving because they are write-once discs and cannot be accidentally erased. Once you've loaded your content to the hard drive, you'll be able to edit it before burning it to DVD. The newly created DVD-R can be played back on most other home and portable DVD players, as well as DVD-ROM computer drives.

You get a pair of audio/video inputs (composite- and S-video with stereo analog audio), and two sets of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio output (Toslink optical) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. An RF coaxial AV input and output help you interface with older TVs, VCRs, and cable boxes.

What's in the Box
DVD recorder/DVR combination unit, remote control, remote batteries (two AA), a stereo analog audio/composite-video interconnect, an RF coaxial audio-video cable, a 25-foot RJ-11 phone cord, an RJ-11 phone splitter, an IR control cable, a serial control cable (male DB9 to stereo minijack plug), an AC power cord, a user's manual, an installation guide, and warranty information.Average Customer Rating:

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Comment: Buy 510H-S for Editing Out Commercials Rating:
I bought 510H-S (http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/product/detail/0,,2076_4139_37530022,00.html) and I am very happy with it.
810H-S has TiVo, which is why you cannot edit out commercials. 510H doesn't have TiVo, and you can edit out commercials. But since I already have a TiVo, it's OK to me. I set up the recording using Tivo's Season Ticket and wish list, and check ToDo list. If there are programs worth recording in ToDo list, then I program 510H using Timer. 510H's timer is not bad. Actually, as a simple timer its user interface is quite good. But it's no TiVo. You can also program using VCR Plus, which I don't use. Comparing video quality, I think that Pioneer is slightly better than TiVo Series 2. Since 510H-S has complete editing functionality, it is more difficult to use at first time. It was one of the electronic products that forced me to read the manual and take time to get used to it. It was frustrating for a few days. But now, it's OK. I know what is going on. While I can hear hard disk noise from TiVo, I cannot hear 510H's disk noise at all. I highly recommend 510H-S. But be prepared to read the manual and to have some practice time for a few days. And it will take a week or two to get used to it.
An ideal DVR would be TiVo's user friendliness and convinience plus 510H's full editing functionality. But unless TiVo relaxes restrictions on the rules of recording to DVD, it is unlikely to come. So it is your choice: Tivo feature or full editing ?

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Comment: GREAT! Rating:
I love this product, I have been a TiVo user since 2001 and I have to say this latest TiVo is great. I travel a lot, and being able to take all my TiVo programming with me is a wonderful thing. I also saw the pixilation issue but I bumped up my quality (you can record TiVo at different quality levels.) and now I do not have a problem. And the higher quality does not seem to take up much more disk space. There was also a bit of flicker on one of my "lower" non-digital cable channels, but I was getting real poor reception, that has been fixed, and now I don't see it anymore. I would say if you want to easily record TV and then make DVD recordings of those shows I would say get this recorder now!

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Comment: Used this for a few months and like it Rating:
I have had this unit for a few monts in my bedroom. Medum quality records just fine and makes DVDs that dont have any pixelization (basic quality sucked). I have used el-cheapo DVD-Rs and it has worked well. The unit is no more noisy than my 80 hour seris 2 in the livingroom and the wife and I never hear the unit. On numerous occasions I have burned a DVD while recording a show and watching another and the unit performed like a champ. A note: The burned DVDs use the Tivo interface for the menu which is neat but confusing when watching the DVD - we keep thinking we are in Tivo and wonder why the 30sec skip doesnt work.

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