RCA DRC225N Progressive Scan DVD with Slim Tray Design

by RCA

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 14.8 x 20 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7 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: B00093DHGW
• Item model number: DRC225N
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #197,944 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Enjoy your favorite movies and showcase your latest vacation photos burned to disc with the single-disc, progressive scan RCA DRC225N DVD player. It's compatible with DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-R/RW, and VCD/SVCD disc formats. It will also play back compressed MPEG4 video (including DivX) and both MP3 and WMA digital audio files. The Digital Photoview feature can combine JPEG images burned to disc with MP3 audio for a slide show with music background.

Two special functions enhance the movie experience. Scene Again allows you to review a scene at the touch of a button and the bookmarking feature enables you to insert up to 12 bookmarks to identify favorite scenes. It features zoom, slow motion, frame advance, program play and repeat modes. it provides Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 channel decoding via the optical and coaxial digital audio outputs. It features the following video connections:

• Composite AV Out (RCA): 1
• S-Video Out: 1
• Component Video Out: 1

What's in the Box
DVD player, AV cable, remote control, batteries, printed instructions

Product Description

RCA/Thompson (DRC225N) DVD Progressive Scan

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good; feature-rich for the price, August 13, 2006

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cfkman "cfkman" (Laramie, WY USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: RCA DRC225N Progressive Scan DVD with Slim Tray Design (Electronics)

I want to come to the defense of this player a bit. I think a couple of the reviews had more to do with support problems rather than specific hardware problems. I bought this player in November of 2005 so I have been using it for about 9 months now.

I purchased this DVD player because my previous DVD player (a Sony 300-disc library model) was beginning to fail. I chose to try this player primarily for these reasons: (a) price--I think I paid about $56 through amazon; (b) it is a progressive scan player, which I think makes for a better picture than interlaced; (c) it has component video out (and my TV accepts component video in, again for the best picture); (d) it claimed to play mp3 disks and I was looking for a way to play mp3's on my main entertainment system.

This DVD player lived up to all its claims and more. It does indeed provide progressive scan through component video cables for an awesome picture, and it plays mp3 disks (music, audio only) that I create on my PC.

Additionally, it will also play DVD's that I create myself using Sonic's MyDVD software, and also will play VCD's that I create (like a DVD, but on a CD-size disk). I recently backed up all of my music and pictures onto a DVD as a data disk and stuck it in this RCA player just for fun--it displayed jpeg images on the TV and would play the mp3 music as well. Additionally, it's very thin, a feature that allows me to put two separate components into a single slot of my entertainment center's cabinet.

All in all, I was very impressed with this player's capabilities, especially given the great price. I'm considering buying one or two more for other rooms in my house. The reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is because the interfaces are a bit primitive. It will indeed play mp3's and display jpg's, but the number of characters of a file's name is limited so if you have long file names, it may be hard to distinguish them on the screen. Also, you can't create playlists on the fly, so you have to create them when you burn an mp3 disk by placing songs in a specific folder.

But those things are minor nit-picks. If you want an inexpensive player that will do progressive scan, component video, play mp3's and display jpg's, this is a great player for the price.

UPDATE: May 2008: I've had this unit for 2.5 years now and it's still performing well; I watch all my movie rentals on it and still play CD's and mp3 CD's on it as well. One small problem has developed over the years: the drawer onto which you place a DVD has a tendency to close by itself sometimes, causing you to have to be careful and quick when placing or removing a disc. However, this doesn't happen often and I still consider this to be a 4-star player.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fine at first, January 3, 2007

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luigi - See all my reviews

This review is from: RCA DRC225N Progressive Scan DVD with Slim Tray Design (Electronics)

About 6 months after I bought this thing it crapped out. I loved it at first. The slim size fit into the space that I had, the player worked well with my TV and other equipment, it played every disc I put in it. I was thrilled to have found something this nice... then it died. I was also the stupid fool who didn't send in her warranty card so now I'm looking at a cheaper player, clearly buying the name brands don't help! Why don't they make things to last???

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not half bad, October 7, 2006

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D. Rose "Video Nut" (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RCA DRC225N Progressive Scan DVD with Slim Tray Design (Electronics)

After returning 2 DRC247N players because the power supplies emitted horribly loud high pitched squeals when powered off, I finally found this model. No optical digital output, no display on the machine itself, but other than it sticking twice for about one half second while playing the first 2 discs I tried, it really is a decent machine. Picture is smooth and artifact-free, sound is quite excellent, easily region-hackable, good looking cabinet. Except for no display on the machine I find this to be a quite satisfactory unit. Would like to have seen the remote be a bit larger and the keys a little better marked. No problems so far with performance. For a straight forward simple player, this is considerably better than about half a dozen other players I returned for various defects or lack of features. If it lasts as well as it performs I will be very happy with the DRC225N. I needed another player for Region2-PAL discs that I buy from the U.K. This does the job very nicely and I found it at K-Mart for under $50.00. Heck of a decent deal compared to so many fall-apart players out there in the same price range. Another thing I like is the color balance is much better than other RCA players I tried. Most had the typical RCA look of far too much green in the pix, and fleshtones much too orange. This one does not have the color problems. I'm keeping it.