Panasonic PV-D4761 DVD/VCR Combo

by Panasonic

Product Details

Product Manual [2.17mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 14.3 x 16.8 x 4.6 inches ; 15 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 18 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005MITO
• Item model number: PV-D4761
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #382,769 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Panasonic's PV-D4761 not only saves valuable shelf space in your living room or bedroom, it's also a breeze to set up and operate. Now you can watch your favorite DVD movies, tape your favorite TV shows, and enjoy access to your legacy library of VHS videocassettes.

The PV-D4761's 4-head VHS videocassette player/recorder ensures smooth slow-motion play (forward and reverse) and clear still-frame images, and with hi-fi sound the VCR records and plays back stereo audio tracks. Commercial Skip speeds past unwanted portions of your tape in 3-minute increments. Index search lets you zip right to your predefined index points, and VCR Plus+ Silver greatly simplifies advance programming and program selection. Other VCR features include auto head cleaning, auto repeat, and auto/manual digital tracking.

The disc drive plays DVD-Video (NTSC formatted), VCD (MPEG-1 video from a computer), and audio CD, with repeat, random play, and track programming as viewing/listening options. The DVD player can simulate surround-sound effects using just 2 speakers, so you'll still be able to appreciate a sense of surround sound even if you don't have a surround receiver or 6-channel speaker setup.

The unit features standard composite-video (DVD/VCR output), S-video (DVD only), and premium component video outputs (DVD only), as well as 2 sets of composite video inputs (1 on the front and 1 at the rear) and 1 each RF (coaxial-type) input and output for an antenna or tuner input and passthrough. There's also an optical digital-audio output to feed a 5.1-channel surround-sound signal to a Dolby Digital-decoding or DTS-decoding AV receiver. The PV-D4761 has 2 sets of stereo RCA analog audio outputs (both DVD/VCR) as well.

What's in the Box
DVD/VCR combo, a remote control, remote batteries, an RF coaxial video cable, a user's manual, and warranty information.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

63 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't be much worse, October 22, 2001

By 

Misha Weidman "mishman" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Panasonic PV-D4761 DVD/VCR Combo (Electronics)

The first bad thing about this unit is the manual, which is so poorly written that Panasonic wisely added a tech support number at the end of it. Since I'm reasonably handy with electronics, I got it set up after about 30 minutes without tech support, but found that I was having difficulty accessing the DVD special menus and chapters. After about 2 hours of frustration, I gave up. On calling tech support the next day, they informed me that the machine was probably defective. The DVD player was making a whirring noise on startup, and was skipping on audio CD's to boot. Add to that the fact that the "illuminated remote control" is misleading advertising. Only a handful of basic functions are illuminated (unless my remote was malfunctioning too -- a distinct possibility). The picture quality, (the little I saw of it) seemed fine. CD's played on the DVD sounded tinny, although the sound on the 15 minutes of DVD I got to watch seemed good. Most of all, the manual and the layout of the remote were too confusing for words. It couldn't be any worse!

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Big Brand Name Mediocre VCR Playback, January 11, 2002

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D Foster (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Panasonic PV-D4761 DVD/VCR Combo (Electronics)

I'm very proficient with electronics and even I had problems reading through the instruction manual I gave up after 2-3 minutes and hooked it up without it. It was easy enough. This DVD/VCR combo has every feature you could want including 5x search forward & backward, this was great especially with the DVDs. There are two disappointing facts however: the lighted remote only lights 8 keys NOT including numbers, volume or channel keys. Also the VCR picture quality was miserable in comparison to the Phillips DVD/VCR (but the Phillips ate my VCR tape, I didn't try another). This was very disappointing coming from Panasonic but I've experienced poor picture quality with their VCR PV-8664 as well. so much so I'm returning it this eve. I paid ... at PC Richards here in NY over priced due to poor picture quality, poor manual, and only eight keys lighting on the remote, but you've gotta love the features (though not enough to keep it).

103 of 122 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Idea!! Perfect product, July 31, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Panasonic PV-D4761 DVD/VCR Combo (Electronics)

Why did it take this long to get this product on the market? One of the reasons that people are hesitant to buy a DVD player is that they have years worth of VHS tapes that would take forever to replace. Now, they don't have to replace them. Just buy this DVD and VHS player combo and watch all your old VHS tapes on one side and the newer DVD's on the other side. I think that all new DVD players should have had this when it first came out, it would have made a lot more people be sold on watching DVD's.

The convience of this is well worth every penny for this product! Don't be afraid to switch over to DVD, start off slowly by getting this player so you can gradually ease your way into the way of the future, DVD's.