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Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player: Second Opinion

Al Griffin | Sep 01, 2006 |

I'd been eagerly looking forward to

the arrival of a Blu-ray Disc player at Sound & Vision since - well, ever since the rival HD DVD format launched last April. But our first round of Blu-ray movie watching ended with executive editor Rob Sabin and I walking away disappointed and confused.

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Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player Rob Sabin | Sep 01, 2006 |

The Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc player had been out just a couple of days when my phone began ringing with some interesting reports from the field. It didn't take long to realize that this would be no ordinary product launch.

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Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player: Features & Hook-up Rob Sabin | Aug 31, 2006 |

If you've read our review of the Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc player - the world's first - you know what we thought of the picture and sound quality with the first batch of Blu-ray discs. But there's a lot more to this box than what comes out of it. Here's a run-down on some key features and few details you should know about hooking it up.

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Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player

Rob Sabin | Jun 03, 2006 |

Here are the three most important things you should know about Toshiba's much anticipated HD-XA1, the world's very first high-definition optical disc player: 1. It's not just a DVD player - it's a computer.

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Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player: Hook Me Up

Rob Sabin | Jun 03, 2006 |

Setting up the Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD player for the best picture and sound quality is not for the uninitiated. Even home theater experts will face a learning curve to understand the different ways to extract video and audio from the player and the ramifications of each option and will have to read the manual to find what settings in the player's internal menu will yield the desired results.

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Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player: What's in the Box

Rob Sabin | Jun 03, 2006 |

As soon as you pull it from the carton, you know that the Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD player means business. Its 17-inch rack-size width and 20 pounds of heft beckon to a day when men were men and DVD players were both taller and heavier than a slice of white bread.

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Burning Desire

David Ranada | Feb 03, 2006 |

Like swimmers in some Darwinian gene pool, DVD recorders are quickly mutating to fill every possible niche. Yet as they evolve, you can count on finding a core set of features in most decks - a TV tuner, a VCR-style timer, and a handful of recording "modes" that let you trade picture quality for playback time.

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Denon DVD-5910 Universal DVD/SACD Player

| Jan 04, 2006 |

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Pioneer DVD-633H-S DVR/DVD Recorder

David Ranada | Nov 03, 2005 |

The first DVD recorder we ever reviewed, back in December 2000, was a Pioneer, and the company has followed that by a series of ever more versatile and easy-to-use models.

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A Winning System

John Sciacca | Oct 01, 2005 |

Writing for Sound & Vision has taken me to such exotic locales as an aircraft carrier at sea and George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch.

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DVD + HDMI

David Ranada | Sep 05, 2005 |

What We Think

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LG LRY-517 universal DVD recorder/VCR

Ken C. Pohlmann | Sep 05, 2005 |

Last time I checked, there were five different recordable-DVD disc types - a potential compatibility catastrophe. Wouldn't it be great if someone invented a player that could play all kinds of DVDs? Even better, what if it was also a recorder?

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Lite-On LVW-5045 DVD Recorder

David Ranada | Aug 02, 2005 |

Fast Facts

DIMENSIONS (WxHxD) 17 x 2.625 x 12.5 inches PRICE $399 MANUFACTURER Lite-On USA, <

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DVD Recorders On the Cheap

David Ranada | Jun 07, 2005 |

Download our tables summarizing features and lab results in handy PDF format.

While DVD recorders have a ways to go befo

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Humax DRT800 DVD/TiVo Recorder

David Ranada | May 10, 2005 |

The latest DVD recorders have so many advanced features that they can be daunting to use. Just pick up the instruction manual, and you'll likely find yourself slogging through pages of editing commands as well as countless rules for recording on different disc formats.

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