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Magnavox MRV700R DVD Player/Recorder and VCR Combo | 
 enlarge | Brand: Magnavox
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 15.2
Dimensions (in): 21.3 x 14.7 x 7.1
MPN: MRV700R
Model: MRV700R
UPC: 037849949559
EAN: 0037849949559
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| Features:
| • | Records up to 6 hours per disc on DVD+R/+RW media; plays and records VHS videocassettes (NTSC, PAL, and SECAM) | | • | Plays DVD, DVD+R/+RW, VCD and SVCD, CD, CD-R/RW, MP3 CD, picture CD (MPEG plus MP3) | | • | Front audio/video inputs accommodate camcorder, gaming device, or DVR/VCR | | • | Progressive-scan output with 3:2 pulldown detection renders seamless, flicker-free images on high-definition and HD-ready TVs | | • | Coaxial digital-audio output passes Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround sound to compatible A/V receivers and speaker systems |
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Product Description
This Magnavox MRV700VR DVD and Video Cassette Recorder records both DVD+RW/DVD+R and videotapes, but also plays prerecorded videotapes, DVDs and other Disc types. You can record TV programs, edit camcorder recordings, and quickly access your DVD recordings in the Index Picture Screen. You'll soon appreciate the digital picture and sound quality of DVD, DVD+RW, and DVD+R, which will exceed the quality you have had with videotapes.
Amazon.com Product Description
The MRV700R from Magnavox combines a full-featured DVD player with the quality and convenience of both DVD+R/+RW and VHS (NTSC, PAL, SECAM) recording and playback. Great for small-scale entertainment systems and back-room or bedroom service, the MRV700R lets you archive your home movies and edit favorite scenes to share with loved ones: use recordable DVD+R and rerecordable DVD+RW media for compiling home-video highlights or for storing TV programs, then mail them to loved ones. You can also time-shift your TV viewing, using the unit's programmable timer to schedule programs to record on either VHS tape or DVD, depending on your priorities. The MRV700R stores up to 6 hours of audio and video on a single-sided recordable DVD at varying quality levels, from sub-VHS quality to VHS/S-VHS quality, DVD quality, and full DV quality. Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the MRV700R stands ready to deliver the full potential of your DVDs during playback. 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. The MRV700R also performs 3:2 pulldown detection. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24-frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; reverse 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture. The unit's front panel sports a set of inputs for your temporary or spontaneous A/V connections. A set 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 coaxial digital-audio output for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
Not worth your time January 19, 2006
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have 3 complaints about this machine: No fast forward feature for the DVD player, takes too long to start up, the clock always runs fast.
Our biggest complaint is that there is no fast forward feature for the DVD player. You are allowed to skip chapters, but once in a chapter you can not fast forward or rewind. This is very annoying.
Our second complaint is that it takes forever to initially start up. It is so slow! You can't just turn it on and record, you have to let the maching boot itself up first. And it is noisy.
Our last complaint is that regardless of how many times you reset the clock, it will always run fast. We've given up on it at this point.
I agree with the other review that says the machine is somewhat difficult to run. You definately have to read the manual through to figure it out.
This machine will play both DVD's and Tapes, but it is more hassel then it it worth. I wish I would have researched this before I bought it, it was an impulse buy.
 Might be an OK recorder, but is a terrible DVD player April 6, 2005
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this product 2 days ago and am getting ready to pack it back up and return it. I haven't even tried recording with it, but trying to play a DVD is a huge ordeal.
To begin with, there isn't an auto-play feature. I'm used to slipping a disc in for my toddler and having the main menu come up automatically. Doesn't happen here. You have to push the "play" button (or the "disc menu" button or the "system menu" button, depending on the disc).
Do any of your DVDs have layers of menus? Trivia games? Anything of the sort? Forget about it. I can't even get a cursor to come up on the secondary menus most of the time, rendering the content thereof useless. A couple of my daughter's favorite movies won't even play unless I figure out by trial and error which track number corresponds to the movie and manually select it.
Playing a movie should not involve this level of frustration. I'm going to try a different brand, and if it can't play a simple DVD either, I'll wait for DVD recorder technology to mature. I'll spend a lot more time watching DVDs than recording them.
 Setup was different June 19, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I found the setup to be the most difficult part of the entire process. Playing DVD's was easy.
User Unfriendly January 6, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Simply put, this DVD/VCR combo is very difficult to use even for a fairly savy person like myself. Without the manual you are lost, and the most annoying thing about this model is the very noisy fan that runs incessantly even when the machine is off! I had to put it on a AC socket on/off switch.
Not worth the time, energy or money March 31, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the SECOND time I'm packing this thing back up to return in the last 30 days. When we initally bought this, we came home & after about 2 hours of trying to figure out the hookup and installation, I contacted Magnaxox only to find out I had a "defective" player. The VHS wasn't working (I could hear sound, but picture was only black & white wavy lines) and the DVD would not play at all (No disc message). It also made a very loud noise when a DVD was inserted. SO... we drive back down to the store we purchased it, which is 45 minutes away (we live in a rural area), and exchanged it for another one. I get home, hook it up (quicker this time), try a VHS tape. It was working, so I was optimistic...tried the DVD player... YES, it works. I was very relieved and put away the box and paperwork, feeling very happy that it was just a defective player the first time. Well.... that feeling was pretty short lived. Three weeks after use, I went to put a DVD in & started getting the message "No Disc". Uh-oh... I tried several others, just in case it was the DVD. Nope-same message. I put a VHS tape in to see if that was working alright. It began playing but within 3-4 minutes, it stopped. When I tried to eject the tape, it would not eject. When I tried to open the DVD player to remove the DVD, it would not open. Oh joy.. I unplugged it, and was going to try again, but at that point the player would not even turn on. At all. So... I unplugged it for the evening with intentions of returning it immediately. My husband plugged it in the next day and it came on & he was able to remove our movies (thankfully). The DVD is still not working, the VHS works but now there is this mysterious "snow" on the television whenever we turn this on. Hmmmm..... I believe this player is a dud. I am returning it this weekend and am buying another brand. This DVD/VCR Recorder combo has created a good deal of stress for me and probably raised my blood pressure as well:) Seriously though, I would not recommend this one. I would give it zero stars, if that were an option :)
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