Recordable DVD players are perfect solution for recording movies, sporting events, and your favorite TV programs. Recordable DVD players can include advanced player features such as progressive scan video output, built-in Dolby Digital and DTS, audio decoders, and high quality video and audio inputs and outputs, including component video and optical digital connections. Recordable DVD players promise top quality recording to the available space on a digital disc.
There are six recordable versions of DVD. They are DVD-R for General, DVD-R for Authoring, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD+R. DVD-R and DVD+R can record data whereas DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW can be rewritten many times. The problem is that recording formats are not compatible with each other.
Recordable DVD players work like a VCR. These players have a tuner and A/V input. An important difference is that there is no need to rewind or fast forward recordings. Many recordable DVD players include an electronic program guide that gives you onscreen TV listings from which you can select shows to record. DVD video recorders cannot copy most of the protected DVD movie discs. The usual way to use a recorder is to use it as you would use a VCR. The price of recordable DVD players used to be ,000. Now the prices are falling and could fall to about 0 this year.
New and expensive models of high definition DVD players focus on improving the resolution and sharpness of the broadcast. For this purpose, electronic companies and manufacturers of DVD players are experimenting with a lot of technologies like lasers, complex compression techniques, and very large scale integrated circuits.
Discs produced on recordable DVD players can be played on some computers and DVD players. Some players can automatically create index menus with thumbnail images of each section on the disc. If you want to make permanent recordings from your old videotapes, then record through write-once media. Companies like Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Toshiba and others supply recordable DVD players.
