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(More customer reviews)If you have satellite like I do (DirecTV), then forget about the TV Guide function...that only works with cable or antena. But I didn't care about the TV Guide.....what I wanted was a user-friendly recorder with a hard drive plus compatibility with dual-layer DVD media. The Pioneer 533H-S is perfect for what I wanted to do. I record football games onto the hard drive at the highest quality bit setting (HQ+), then edit the commercials, create chapters (all very easy to do), and then burn it onto a dual layer DVD at the same HQ bit rate. The burned copies are outstanding. As for editing, this machine tells you exactly how much time you have left after each commercial edit, so you always know exactly how much to trim off your hard drive recording to make sure it fits onto your DVD. Furthermore, creating chapters is simple. All editing and modifications you make to the original hard drive recording is successfully burned onto your DVD.
If you have satellite, then setup is easy. Select "cable" and let the built-in tuner go through the channels, just like a VCR. When the screen appears asking you if you want to configure TV Guide, select the option "never remind me again"....after that it will never be an issue. This unit acts just like a VCR.
All recordings, including timer recording, are straight forward. Once this unit is setup with satellite, you will manually record whatever channel your receiver is currently on....just hit the "record" button on the remote and that's it, or set the timer.
Quality recordings, easy and straight-forward to use. It does exactly what I want it to do, this is a sweet machine. I'm happy. I also called Pioneer tech support with questions about the TV Guide function, and they answered promptly, actually spoke perfect english and were helpful. I think they said the tech support is in California.
Also, this machine apparently lets you plug in your VCR so you can transfer your old tapes to the hard drive. Then you can edit the video and burn it to a DVD. I haven't tried this yet, but I have dozens of old VHS tapes of football games going all the way back to Super Bowl 23. Now I'll be able to archive my NFL library onto digital media that will last a century. How great is that?
I'm impressed with Pioneer.
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Record your library of home movies and your favorite television programs to disc quickly and easily with the Pioneer DVR-533H-S DVD recorder. The built-in 80 GB hard drive lets you record lots of home movies and TV shows for temporary storage, and it can hold up to 170 hours of content (recorded at lowest video quality--SEP Mode). Once recorded, you can watch them whenever you want, edit them, delete them, or burn them to DVD. The DVR-533H-S burns to DVD-R/RW discs, and is compatible with playback of CD-R/RW, VCD, and SVCD disc formats as well as JPEG, WMA, and MP3 digital file formats.
The DVR-533H-S includes a built-in TV tuner and the free and easy-to-use 8-day TV Guide On Screen interactive program guide--just find your favorite programs and select them for recording. The Chase Play function lets you watch, stop, or pause a show being recorded to the hard drive--even while you're recording it. It also includes a commercial skip feature that lets you jump ahead 30 seconds at a time.
The i.LINK (also known as Firewire or IEEE 1394) interface allows you to transfer your DV (Digital Video) home movies from your digital video camcorder smoothly to the hard drive. If your movies were shot in analog format, inputs for composite video/S-video and Left-Right audio are provided for dubbing them directly to DVD. With Disc Backup, you can make a direct file transfer of your home-movie DVD back to the hard drive, and from that make as many copies of your home movie as you want, all at blazing speed.
The Smart VBR (Variable Bit Recording) recording functionality lets you choose the quality level/recording time that best suits you. Choose from Fine, SP, LP, EP, and Auto; Auto automatically sets the optimal recording quality for the time remaining on the hard drive.
This DVD player's PureCinema 2:3 Progressive Scan gives you a more film-like presentation when watching movies. The 54MHz/10-bit video DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) delivers beautiful video quality. Other features include Dolby Digital and DTS Digital surround sound outputs and a high-end 24-bit/192kHz audio DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) for superb musical performance. It offers the following connection options:
Composite AV In: 2
Composite AV Out: 2
S-Video In: 2
S-Video Out: 2
Component video Out: 1
RF In: 1
RF Out: 1
Digital optical audio: 1
What's in the Box DVD recorder, remote control, DVD-RW disc, printed operating instructions
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