Recent content by Jean Weitzmann

Price lowered to $399 plus shipping. ($299 after rebate) After that, it goes on EBay. ;) JW

Hi, I am selling a Humax DRT800 DVD Recorder (DVD-R/-RW) with 80hours TiVo PVR Series 2. It is New in Box, unopened, and was purchased last month from a major authorized retailer, so it comes with full manufacturer warranty and a $100 TiVo Rebate form. (I haven't registered it) If you...

I just got the LG LST-3510A (HDTV receiver + DVD player with upscaled DVI and RGB outputs). I have set it up to RGB output at 720p and connected a 15pin VGA to 5 x BNC cable to the RGBHV input of my CRT projector. It works fine for SD/HD DTV over-the-air, but it won't play a commercial DVD...

I just got the LG LST-3510A (HDTV receiver + DVD player with upscaled DVI and RGB outputs). I have set it up to RGB output at 720p and connected a 15pin VGA to 5 x BNC cable to the RGBHV input of my CRT projector. It works fine for SD/HD DTV over-the-air, but it won't play a commercial DVD...

I just got a Yamakawa 238 from eCost.com as a spare. Lists at $44.95, then there's a $10 rebate from Yamakawa, plus a $34.95 rebate from eCost if you purchase any 10 DVDs with it. Free ground shipping but there are handling fees on the DVDs. * Plays DVD, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, VCD, MP3...

Only one SA model does 5.1 recording to DVD, the Philips DVDR740/17: Philips web site + Records 5.1 audio from Digital Input (only) + Component Video Input + i-Link 1394 input - No HDD - DVD+R/+RW recording only List price $599, street price around $459 JW

Thanks Paul and Stephen, you are correct: The thing that bothers me about those units is that you can't edit (commercials, for instance) before copying from HD to DVD. So.... since I already have the Tivo Lifetime service transfer, I'm thinking, maybe I should rather get the Toshiba SDH-400...

I forgot to mention: the reason why I am looking at the Tivo+DVD-R combo units is that in the room where I would use it, I have: * a 32" EDTV (which has only one 480p component input) * a Toshiba SD6200 progressive DVD player (connected to the 480p component input) * an early Tivo-1 unit...

Hi all, I'm looking at buying a DVD Recorder. I am debating between the new Tivo + DVD-R units: * HUMAX DRT800 * TOSHIBA RS-TX20 (or the older PIONEER DVR-810H now that the pixelation bugs seems to have been fixed) All those units record to DVD-R-RW. I am also looking at the new...

DTS recently announced that a DTS track will be mandatory on both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. See DTS Press Release (HD-DVD and Blu-Ray) By design, higher resolution (24/96) and extra channels (currently up to 7.1) DTS data is always backwards compatible with the original DTS core format. DTS...

This is already available on combo units (DVD Player+Tivo, DVD Recorder+Tivo) from Pioneer and Toshiba, at least. (at least one of the Pioneer units even uses the Sage/Faroudja DCDi chip) JW

anyone else?

Thanks David, I also have a SONY DVP-S7700 (Region-free, PAL/NTSC) + Cinematrix 720p RGBHV outputs. It seems that there are quite a few problems with this DVD on SONY 7700 and 9000 players (also on some JVC players, it seems). I'll try it on my bedroom player (Toshiba SD-6200) to check...

Hi, Maybe I've missed something that everyone already knows about, but is anyone having playback problems with Disc2 (WideScreen) of the Vista Series edition of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". I'm at my third exchanged copy and I am getting the same problems everytime: * Picture "freezes" for...

You can find the original (french) uncut version (3 hours) here: FNAC It's a Region 2/PAL DVD. The french title is "37°2 le matin". The bad news is that it's in french, and I think there are no english subtitles. (unfortunately the case of most french movies in their R2/PAL french edition)