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 enlarge | Brand: RCA
Category: CE
List Price: $499.99
Buy Used: $120.00
You Save: $379.99 (76%)
New (5) from $125.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 24
Dimensions (in): 22 x 18.6 x 11.2
Warranty: 1 Year Parts, 90 Day Labor Limited Warranty
MPN: HDV5000
Model: HDV5000
UPC: 747192000066
EAN: 0747192000066
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Previously owned with very little use! Includes Power Supply and Remote Only. [027544001][02] This item is Like New. This item may never have been used, but does not meet our criteria for Brand New.
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 Great HD DVD if you don't care about future HD DVD's January 13, 2007
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
As reviewer Ketran stated... This player will not play the 1080p disks. I also did the King Kong DVD thing with the same results... 32 seconds and error message, but RCA customer service didn't tell me there was a problem when I inquired. It also takes forever to say hello, load, and start play.. It's going back as soon as the roads clear.. Get the Toshiba HD-A1 or HD-A2 if you're looking for a moderate price HD DVD.
 RCA does it better April 17, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I got this about a year ago because I am a die-hard RCA customer. IMO RCA always makes the best products that are always easy to use and easy to install. This HD player is no exception. I have the player hooked up to my RCA projection TV and the picture and sound quality is very sharp and precise. The player can play regular DVDs as well. Another reason why I like RCA so much is because their products last for years and years. Would you believe I have an old RCA DVD player that I picked up nearly 8 years ago that still works great and an RCA VCR which is nearly 13 years old! It is unfortunate that HD players are going out. But as soon as RCA makes a blu-ray I'll get that. I just saw a no-name blu-ray on QVC but I would never consider anyhing that wasn't RCA.
I've now owned this player for almost 1-1/2 years! December 6, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First of all, completely ignore the "cannot play 1080p discs" and the "obsolete" nonsense spewed in the guise of "reviews".
First: The HD DVD discs were recorded as 1080p from the very first handful released back in April 2006, and the HDV5000 can play EVERY one of them. In fact, you will be hard pressed to identify any titles at all that are NOT recorded as 1080p (though the HDV5000 will indeed play those as well.)
(Note: The player will not output 1080p, though absolutely all of the original 1080p video information is, in fact, delivered to the HDTV. This means that it will fully meet the needs of the VAST majority of HDTV owners, though probably not all.)
Second: Every feature provided on any HD DVD released to-date is fully supported on every HD DVD player manufactured to-date. All that's required is the firmware be up-to-date (can be performed either by internet update or CD-ROM update from RCA.)
Finally: I own an HDV5000 which I purchased in July 2006. It is going strong at the center of my home theater setup and is currently running firmware version 2.4. I use it for both SD DVD and HD DVD playback and it provides excellent picture and sound with both (I use both Toslink and HDMI for audio, and component and HDMI for video.)
As far as delays are concerned -- true, it certainly isn't the quickest player imaginable, but it was NEVER anywhere NEAR as slow as those particular "reviews" state -- obviously written by people who never spent time with the player, let alone owned it! To give an accurate current picture, I just took measurements and here is what you can expect with firmware version 2.4:
Time from standby to drawer open: 45 seconds
Time from drawer open to picture start with SD DVD: 35 seconds
Time from drawer open to picture start with HD DVD: 65 seconds
As I said, I have owned this player since July 2006 and it continues to perform well in my setup. Excellent picture, excellent sound (requires DTS decoder in the receiver for either RCA or Toslink 5.1 audio with HD DVD) and I find the remote control responsiveness to be satisfactory (rapid button press sequences are not advisable.) Build quality is excellent and appearance, as always, is a matter of personal taste -- I consider it a good looking player!
Plays 1080 p disc if you update the firmware. January 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Call RCA, the phone # is in the box right on the sheet about updating the firmware on the net under the part about "If you do not have internet we will send you a disc". they will send you a disc ( mine was V.2 and took about 3 days after I called ). Pop CD in the player. 5 minutes later your done. Your watching TRANSFORMERS or KONG yes the 1080p disc will play back in 1080i player and your HD TV will input the 1080i back out as 1080p if it is a 1080p HDTV and this will happen so fast on a good set-up that you would never know that a 1080p image was cut into a 1080i and back into a 1080p. Will RCA stop making updates for this? If they do just use the TOSHIBA A1 updaters. You will lose the RCA menu screen and get the TOSHIBA screen if you do this but the player controls are the same.When I first got this player last year I did have some disc that would not load before I did the firmware update but they work fine now. STARDUST and BLADE RUNNER are the most recent HD disc I watched on this RCA player. This is a HEAVY DUTY UNIT , nothing cheap about it.
DO NOT BUY IT August 28, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is my second unit. The first one did not function correctly, neither the replacement. Every time I have sent the unit is around 50 dollars in shipping, so do the math. At the time I bought it (last November) I paid 423 dollars, so I am still bleeding from this unit. Besides, this particular model is sooooooooooo slow, it takes forever to upload the disk.
Worst part is that these people do not want to refund my money. They do not have online assistance nor email address to complain. So, I am stuck. They going to ship the third unit, so let's see how long it lasts before becoming non-operational.
High price, low quality. Do yourselF a favor, DO NOT BUY IT.
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