Sony SLVD570H DVD/VCR Combo Player with HDMI

Amazon.com Slim down your home theater cabinet with the Sony SLV-D570H DVD/VCR combo player, which features HDMI output for cleanest possible transfer of digital video and audio. It plays just about any video disc format out there, from DVD-Video to DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW. The player also handles audio CD, VCD/SVCD, and CD-R/RW discs filled with MP3 music or JPEG image files. The front A/V inputs add convenience when you simply want to quickly view those newly recorded videos from your camcorder. Its full-featured, hi-fi stereo VCR allows you to record your favorite shows while watching a DVD. Auto clock and channel set-up makes recording of your favorite TV shows easy--just pop in a VHS tape and press record. Other VCR features include 8-event timer recording, two record settings (SP/EP), quasi S-VHS playback, four 19-micron video heads (for optimized EP recording), and flash rewind. Sony's Precision Cinema Progressive technology uses a 12-bit video DAC (digital-to-analog converter) with high-bandwidth, 108 MHz processing to detect image changes at the pixel level, rather than at the level of whole scan lines. That makes this player's picture more faithful to the source--whether film or video--because it uses separate, optimized algorithms to handle different pixel behaviors. Separate algorithms are also used to process the moving and still parts of an image, resulting in sharp backgrounds with moving objects that are free from motion artifacts. The Precision Drive 3 feature provides a mechanism for reading DVDs that are in less than perfect condition, eliminating errors in playback due to imperfect, scratched, or warped discs. The SLV-D570H offers a digital optical audio ouput, enabling Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound capability. Other connection options include: Component video (YPbPr; 480i/480p): 1 Out HDMI: 1 Out Composite AV (RCA): 2 Out; 2 In (1 front, 1 rear) S-Video: 1 In RF: 2 HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any AV source with an audio and/or video monitor, such as a digital television (DTV). HDMI supports standard-definition (SD), enhanced definition (ED), or high-definition (HD) video, plus multi-channel digital audio--all using a single cable. If your TV doesn't have an HDMI connection, you'll also get great picture reproduction from DVDs using the three-jack component video (Y/Pb/Pr) output, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. Component video output is available only for DVD playback. What's in the Box DVD/VCR combo player, remote control (with batteries), composite A/V cable, printed operating instructions, warranty information

• Combo DVD/VCR unit with HDMI video output for lossless digital DVD playback
• Playback support for DVD-Video, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, VCD, SVCD, CD-R/RW, JPEG CD, and MP3 CD
• VCR can record programming while DVD plays; 8-event recording
• Video connections: Composite A/V (2 in, 2 out), S-Video (1 out), component (1 out)
• Dolby Digital/DTS output via digital optical audio output