Magnavox MDV530VR DVD/VCR Combo

by Magnavox

Product Details

Product Manual [952kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 11 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0000BZHD7
• Item model number: MDV530VR
• Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,140 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #18 in Electronics > Televisions & Video > DVD-VCR Combos
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Watch movies from VHS tape or from high-quality component-video DVD playback, view digital-image slideshows, listen to audio CDs with crystal-clear sound, or play your homemade MP3 CDs through your living-room speakers--all from one affordable, space-saving device. The Magnavox MDV530VR also lets you record off-air in hi-fi stereo sound and watch your camcorder or hook up your gaming console through its convenient front-panel audio/video inputs. Picture-CD functionality includes one-by-one playback and image zoom.

The VCR's four-head design ensures smooth slow-motion play (forward and reverse) and clear still-frame images, and with hi-fi sound the unit records and plays back stereo audio tracks. Its 19-micron heads deliver the clearest possible picture when recording or viewing in EP (extended-play) mode. VCR Plus+ simplifies advance programming, and SQPB (quasi-S-VHS playback) lets you watch S-VHS tapes, which normally requires a special S-VHS VCR, at standard VHS resolution. Other features include timer recording, auto head cleaning, auto repeat playback (great for trade shows and presentations), time and index search, and one-touch recording.

Connections with combo units are often inconvenient, forcing you to use separate video hookups for each section (DVD, VCR), a problem for some TVs. This player has it figured out: a single RF or composite-video connection to a television will display either the DVD or the VCR signal, depending on which format you're viewing. If you want to view DVDs in S-video or in component-video, you'll need to use two separate inputs for DVD player and VCR, however, as the device will not upconvert the signal from the VCR to either of those higher-resolution formats.

A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel DVD/VCR audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions, and there's a second stereo pair for DVD-only analog out. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's coaxial digital-audio output (DVD-only) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. If you don't have a surround receiver or six-channel speaker setup, you can still make every movie night the ultimate experience: the unit simulates surround sound through two speakers (even the stereo speakers on your TV).

What's in the Box
DVD player/VCR combo, remote control, remote batteries, user's manual, stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable, and RF audio/video cable.

Product Description

CONSUMER ALERT: This television receiver has only an analog broadcast tuner and will require a converter box after February 17, 2009 to receive over-the-air broadcasts with an antenna because of the U.S.'s transition to digital broadcasting. Analog-only TVs should continue to work as before with cable and satellite TV services, gaming consoles, VCRs, DVD players, and similar products. For more information, call the Federal Communications Commission at 1-888-225-5322 (TTY: 1-888-835-5322), or visit the commission's digital-television Web site at: htttp://www.dtv.gov. *****

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unit failed within 4 months, October 7, 2003

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S. Stoessel "bugbears2000" (Niskayuna, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magnavox MDV530VR DVD/VCR Combo (Electronics)

This magnavox combo failed with 4 months of purchase. Using the DVD side returns a Disc error message, leaving the DVD player totally unusable. Full Warrantry was only for three months, but Phillips Consumer service offered to exchange the unit for the same price I paid ($129)to purchase it.

The remote is also difficult to use, and lack of a remote eject option is surprising bothersome.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DVD unit very suspect, caveat emptor!, January 15, 2004

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R. E McBride (Flyover Country) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magnavox MDV530VR DVD/VCR Combo (Electronics)

I didn't get mine from Amazon, but from a brick and mortar Target. This is strictly a public service:

Bought it around Thanksgiving, and before Christmas came, the DVD unit quit loading. I called Magnavox and after agreeing it was an obvious hardware failure they wanted to give me a shipping address where I could send it and get a replacement. Instead, I went back to the store and got them to give me a replacement unit.

It's January 15 and guess what? Last night the DVD drive on the replacement failed just like the first one.

For the record, I do not use the thing more than about three movies a week, so it's not like I'm demanding an industrial duty machine.

I can not state it strongly enough: it is a piece of junk, I would never buy another and my former faith in the Magnavox brand is no more. An inexpensive machine isn't expensive when you have to return it twice for an exchange. The only reason this review has one star is Amazon does not offer a zero.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware after 3 months..., December 6, 2003

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"egander" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magnavox MDV530VR DVD/VCR Combo (Electronics)

This item works really well...for about three months right after the warranty runs out. My dvd player also ceased working about 31/2 to 4 months after I purchased it, and from what you all are saying, I'll have to purchase a new one at full price! Talk about horrible customer service! I will not be happy when I get the news from my e-mail I just wrote them. What a load of crap.