Lite-On LVC-9016 Progressive-Scan DVD Recorder/VCR Combo

by Lite-On

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 14 pounds
• ASIN: B000F811OG
• Item model number: LVC-9016G
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,439 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 6, 2006

Product Description

The LVC-9016 uses Lite-On's exclusive AllWrite technology for writing to the most popular digital media formats--even CDs. It's integrated 4-head hi-fi stereo VCR features make it ideal for generating digital archives of your large VHS and home-video libraries. With the LVC-9016, sharing and archiving your precious moments onto a digital format is not only simply, it's also fun. The combo recorder is capable of writing to DVD+/-R/RW and CD-R/RW. It plays CDs loaded up with MP3 music files and discs brimming with your favorite JPEG digital photos--once you've burned your images to a recordable CD, custom slide shows in the comfort of your living room are just a few remote clicks away. At the press of a button you can backup VHS to recordable DVD or DVD to VHS (as long as DVD copying is not prohibited by anti-piracy technology). The unit's convenient front-panel DV Link (IEEE 1394) connection preserves your DV camcorder footage in its original digital quality. You can store from 1 to 6 hours of audio/video content on a single 4.7 GB recordable DVD, depending on the equality you select. The LVC-9016 is also a terrific DVD player. Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the LVC-9016 is equipped to deliver the full potential of your DVDs via its progressive-scan component-video outputs. 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. The deck provides S-video inputs and, for the DVD player, S-video outputs, as well as standard composite-video ins and outs. Choose from optical or coaxial digital-audio outputs to channel digital surround signals (Dolby or DTS) to a compatible multichannel AV receiver and speaker system for dynamic, enveloping surround sound from your commercial DVDs

Customer Reviews

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unit never functioned right, April 4, 2006

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Sparhawk (Santa Clarita, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lite-On LVC-9016 Progressive-Scan DVD Recorder/VCR Combo (Electronics)

Had high expectations on this Lite-On LVC-9016 DVD Recorder/VCR Combo. I've used plenty of Lite-On DVD/RW drives for various computers with absolutely no problems whatsoever, so I was expecting to have a good experience with the VHS->DVD recorder feature. Coupled with the fact that it had a built-in firewire socket in it for ease of transferring digital video from a camcorder to the unit for editing / recording, I was sold. Lots of good features came with the unit (one-touch DVD->VHS or VHS->DVD recording, easy setup-menu, ability to record to DVD+/-R and DVD+/-RW), though the remote isn't the most user-friendly remote that I've used (text is hard to read).

Before I could even try the recording features on this unit, I already had one severe functional problem: the unit would freeze unexpectantly while on tuner mode. The unit would be on a TV channel, and a few minutes later, the screen would turn blank, audio would be cut off, and the unit would become unresponsive to any user input from the remote or the buttons on the unit itself. The only way to get the system to power down would be to press the "Power" button on the remote. (The "power" button on the unit does nothing to remedy this situation, which I found to be really odd). I tried to look on their website for any information regarding this problem, but none is available. I did try updating the firmware on this unit with what was on their website. Though updating the firmware was a breeze, the problem still remained, so I think it might be other software-related issues with the unit. I'm not sure whether this is an isolated incident, but after reading some of the reviews for the previous model (LVC-9006), I will most likely be returning this defective unit for a full refund and be looking at purchasing a combo unit from another manufacturer.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars HORRID!, July 17, 2006

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Gabriel Sickel (CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lite-On LVC-9016 Progressive-Scan DVD Recorder/VCR Combo (Electronics)

Whatever you do, don't buy this. It has a laundry list of problems:

1. It's almost impossible to read the tiny button symbols
2. After playing several older tapes the color left, then came back after I turned it all off.
3. Very slow, takes 5 seconds to play, 15 seconds to record on the VCR/DVD, 20 seconds to stop recording a DVD, takes a minute to load a DVD, and sometimes it never ejects a DVD unless you turn it off and on
4. It crashes and stalls.
5. After you stop recording on the DVD it makes a loud reverberating sound that you can't control, even on mute.
6. When you copy something to the DVD it sometimes skips a minute ahead
7. When you copy something to the DVD it sometimes speeds up to make a "chipmunk" sounding video. It's funny to hear, but it's hell to try and go threw the deathly slow DVD menu to try and erase the mistake.
8. While it's reading a DVD, EVERYTHING else stops working. It won't turn off, it won't record on the VCR
9. It randomly says "FAIL" on certain blank discs while it allows others to work for no reason.
10. It's complex to understand.

If you can, avoid this product. There are many better ones.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, easy to use. Replacement for a VCR, August 23, 2006

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Jack Cheng "jakcheng" (West Roxbury, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lite-On LVC-9016 Progressive-Scan DVD Recorder/VCR Combo (Electronics)

I'd been debating getting a DVR, a DVD recorder, a HD recorder, etc. for a while when the VCR broke. As it turns out, I need a VCR for work so I picked up the LiteOn VCR/DVD-recorder.

I love it. Easy to set up, easy to use. Clear, well designed graphical interface.

Here's our situation: low tech. We had a videotape that I had labeled the "poor man's TiVO" that we would record on and watch our weekly programs. I wanted something that would be easy to set recording times on and this machine is it.

Speaking of low tech: all the reviews of these things talk about how to hook up satellite and cable boxes. No thanks, we are still watching broadcast TV. The tuner on this unit is very clear and one feature I appreciate is the "search for channels" set up. As it went through the channels, it showed what signals it was getting in a "picture in picture" type box.

Similarly, when setting up a timer record, it shows the channel that you have selected. This is useful for us because sometimes the bunny ears get knocked and a high UHF channel gets fuzzy and we miss our UPN or WB broadcast.

It's easy to record to a DVD-RW disc (our new "TiVO"). Playback is clear and easy to fastforward and skip ahead or watch in slow motion.

The remote is not cluttered and pretty easy to use. At first, I worried that I didn't see the "Audio" or "Subtitle" buttons on the remote, but there's a "Navi" button that opens a pretty unobtrusive onscreen menu that lets you pick these things quickly. I appreciate the lack of buttons now.

I know, our tv watching sounds pathetic compared to the home theater yakkety yaks in all the other reviews, but hey, it's just the boob tube. This is a great "replacement VCR" with a step up in quality.

(Four stars because I'm a hard grader)