Coby DVD-R1000 DVD Recorder/Player , Silver

by Coby

Product Details

• Item Weight: 27 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 13 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00016OYSW
• Item model number: DVDR1000
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #400,294 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 11, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Coby's DVD-R1000 makes component DVD recording more affordable than ever. The full-featured player/recorder offers composite- and S-video inputs, an RF antenna/VCR input, and front-panel connections for easy hookups with your camcorder, VCR, or other audio/video component. The unit's built-in tuner lets you record right off the air for convenient, time-shifted viewing of your favorite TV programs.

The DVD-R1000 records on DVD+R (write-once) and DVD+RW (rewritable) media. DVD+RW discs require no finalizing--you can record, eject, and play them with minimal fuss, thanks to "background formatting." This feature, which lowers total recording time, is an advantage over the "dash" formats.

As a player, the DVD-R1000 offers compatibility with NTSC or PAL sources (with appropriate media and monitoring), MP3 CD playback for your homemade music mixes (be aware, though: there's no ID3 tag recognition for artist and title information display), and even progressive-scan component-video outputs for a seamless, flicker-free image on high-definition and HD-ready TVs.

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.

A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Dolby Digital 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each of RCA coaxial and Toslink optical) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver.

An onscreen display simplifies player/recorder setup and operation, and the unit's full-function remote control uses glow-in-the-dark buttons for hassle-free operation in darkened living rooms and bedrooms.

What's in the Box
DVD player/recorder, remote control, remote batteries, user's manual, and 2 stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cables.

Product Description

This Coby 5.1 channel progressive scan DVD player/recorder lets you schedule family entertainment on your time. Record movies, programs and music and watch them together when the whole family is there. Progressive scan player records in DVD+R and DVD+RW format and has built-in A/V inputs for recording from any A/V sources like a VCR or camcorder. Features component video, RCA video and S-video outputs and a full-function remote control.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Coby DVDR1000, May 19, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Coby DVD-R1000 DVD Recorder/Player , Silver (Electronics)

I am an Electrical Engineer with some experience with electronic consumer products, and I have even repaired many of them. This is the only DVD recorder that I have owned.

The price was very low and was an incentive to try it. I took the first unit back to the store when it failed to read most of my prerecorded DVDs. The second unit worked better, but was still having trouble some of the time. After playing around a little, the unit began to work quite well, for some unknown reason.

I have noticed in the month that I have owned the product that it can be quite temperamental, but more often than not, works pretty well. I believe that there are firmware (internal software) bugs in the product.

I initially bought some low cost +RW disks before I read the manual. They wouldn't record! I then got some Memorex disks which were recommended in the manual, and things got better.

To make a long story short, I've learned to live with a very temperamental product because of the low cost. For example, when recording movies with the timer, they often don't come out, at first. My next step now, is to record an additional short segment after the movie and, "BOOM", the disk now works properly with the original recording. I can erase the additional recording with no problem.

The manual has excellent English, but is missing a lot of key information. For example, it tells you how to format a DVD, but there is no explanation as to why, or when, you might want to do that. There are still some set-up functions where I haven't a clue as to what they do. Again the manual says nothing!

The quality of the recording is very good as most other reviewers have stated. The DVDs also play OK on another playback machine that I have. There are some internal adjustments, I would have to say, however, are not set correctly - the black level, for instance, but they are not too far off. And I agree with the other reviews that the TV tuner is poor.

This is a simple, basic, machine that lacks a lot of features that could be nice (editing functions, for example). But the simplicity means less complexity for the average user and could be viewed as a benefit.

In conclusion, if you are willing to fiddle with some of the temperamental nature of this machine, it may be worth the low cost. However, I would think that someone with little patience won't like this machine. A lot more money is probably in order for that person!

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Better left on the shelf, January 6, 2004

By 

C. J. Campbell (Redford twp., Mi United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coby DVD-R1000 DVD Recorder/Player , Silver (Electronics)

I bought this unit at ABC Warehouse and could not believe the price, I had the wife pick it up on the way home from work and connected it to my system as soon as she brought it in the house.
I used to work for a cable company and I know all the in and outs for hooking these things up.
After it was all plugged in and ready to go we checked the picture, it was unbelievably dark and washed out!
I fiddled with it (hoping I could change the brightness etc... of the tuner) but to no avail. Thinking it was a "bad" unit I sent the wife back to exchange it for another, got it home hooked it up, same thing.
Wanting the unit basically to record shows for my daughter I checked to see if I got the same dull washed out picture when I actually did some recording. To my dismay the picture quality was just as bad on the recorded media as it was from the tuner.
As nice as the price was I had to return it yet again.
I personally took it back and talked to the manager at the store and he pointed to a pile of returns with customers complaining not only of the picture, but sound quality also.
Needless to say I did not give it a third try.
My advice? Stay away from this one it is a headache.
I now have an order in for the CyberHome and will leave feedback when I evaluate it after some weeks /months of use.
Hope this saves you the headache I had to put up with concerning this unit.
Best of luck!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Coby records fine, has many extras, January 31, 2004

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"blah432" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coby DVD-R1000 DVD Recorder/Player , Silver (Electronics)

One day's use so far, and it works with all the media I have thrown at it (mostly memorex brand DVD-/+r/w).

The recording is as good as cyberhome and other less expensive DVR players--at least my unit was good (not dark or pale, except on super high contrast cartoons). Perhaps those getting dark/pale recordings were trying to record something with macro/copy protection, or just got bum units.

Some bonuses:
It plays MPG files straight without authoring.

Plays JPG slide shows without authoring, though with no user-select of time between slides.

Plays DVD-R even though not listed on specs.

Have not tested commercial editing yet, but other basic functions were simple enough.

The manual is written fairly well.

Only giving it a 4 because:
It does not allow for real-time play and record concurrently (allowing you to pause while recording and continue recording as it is paused)

It does not work with DVD-R/W (only +).

It does not play WMA, nor give ID tags on mp3 (though it does play down to 32kbps spoken word files).

But for the price, $237+tax, it was the cheapest DVR I've seen.

Comparing to the cyberhome 1500 DVR, it is better looking and has essentially the same features.