RCA DRC240N DivX-Capable Progressive-Scan Single Disc DVD Player

by RCA

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8 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: B0002ARJVQ
• Item model number: DRC240N
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,176 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

RCA's shining, silvery DRC240N offers not only good looks, but an array of cutting-edge features like DivX (MPEG-4) video compatibility, progressive-scan technology for use with high-definition and HD-ready TVs, JPEG image viewing, MP3 music file playback, and compatibility with just about every recordable DVD format, from DVD-R to DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking "someday soon," the DRC240N is equipped to deliver the full potential of your DVDs. 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.

Top-of-the-line component-video outputs help minimize digital and line-scan artifacts on compatible advanced televisions, while composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television.

Like MP3, DivX is a compression technology that can shrink digital media files to sizes that can be easily moved over the Internet. Based on MPEG-4 video compression techniques, DivX maintains high visual quality while minimizing file sizes. This lets online content providers offer high-quality, low-bandwidth programs like movie trailers, animated shorts, and even full-length movies (many available as limited-time "rentals").

The DivX-certified DRC240N plays recordable media (CD or DVD) formatted with DivX 5, DivX 4, DivX 3, and DivX VOD (video-on-demand) content in compliance with DivX-certified technical requirements. To take advantage of the player's DivX compatibility, first browse Web sites and select videos to download. One content-rich portal is www.divx.com. The site will instruct you on the minimum system requirements needed to download content to your computer. Once you've downloaded your program, simply burn it to a compatible CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, insert the disc into your DRC240N DVD player, and you're ready to watch--even if you're nowhere near your PC.

A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 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. A 96 kHz/24-bit digital-to-analog converter ensures optimum decoding of all disc formats.

If you don't have a surround receiver or six-channel speaker setup, you can still make every movie night the ultimate experience: Virtual Surround simulates surround sound through two speakers (even the stereo speakers on your TV). Other features include parental lock, Scene Again (one-button 10-second instant replay), bookmarking (up to 12 bookmarks per disc), and resume play (handy when you need to stop playback and pick up, at a later point, exactly where you left off).

What's in the Box
DVD player, remote control (model RCR311DA1), remote batteries, user's manual, stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great potential needs fixing, October 13, 2004

By 

J W "Electronic Junkie" (Spokane, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RCA DRC240N DivX-Capable Progressive-Scan Single Disc DVD Player (Electronics)

I purchased this DVD player from my employer, CompUSA the day it came off the truck about 10 days ago. It has some perks against the Philips 642 which I also own. The fast forward/rewind is MUCH smoother and doesn't just skip frames as the philips player seems to do. Also is the much missed (at least in my case) support for motion compensation from the Philips player. I also like the remote layout much more, find it more ergonmical and naturally laid out and less likely to hit the wrong button by accident. Also while the philips limited file names to 9 characters, the rca scrolls longer file names showing their entire length. I also prefer the aethestics of the RCA with its slot loading front and hidden lcd screen. Unfortunately things seem to fall apart when one starts to actually use the player. Some movies and videos play fine, but many that I have tried fail to maintain sync with audio often dropping in and out, or the video increasing pace to catch back up to the audio. Often corrected with a quick fw or rewind jogging it happens all to regularly. I can not track so far if its limited to certain bit rates, or codec (i.e. one divx or xvid version). Between the two players its a tough call... For now the RCA will stay hoping for a firmware update but for the time being, buyer beware.. I see ZERO support on RCA's website though the product is still very infantile!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stay away, June 10, 2005

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Syed Ali - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RCA DRC240N DivX-Capable Progressive-Scan Single Disc DVD Player (Electronics)

As some of the other reviewers have noted, the plusses:

- Sleek Design
- Innovative way to load disks through a slot vs. a caddy.
- Digital display is really cool.
- Plays almost any kind of disk you have, DVD, VCD, mp3/wma CD and so on.
- Affordable price.

the minuses:
- The biggest one is that it freezes while trying to load disks, or it just plain shuts itself off outright, while trying to load a disk.
- Sometimes while trying to play a disk it emits a scary ticking noise asif the hardware is going haywire.

I had bought this from Bestbuy website and after seeing the spontaneous shutoff issue, I took it back to my local store and they said to send it directly to the manufacturer. When I got this problem initially, I followed the instructions in the guide to completely reset the hardware, but the problem still persisted.

The manufacturer didn't actually take back the player, but instead replaced the one I sent back with another one of the same kind.

This replacement player worked for a while but its also giving me noises now as if the hardware is going crazy inside.

Bad idea.. Don't buy it, you'll regret it.

Or if you want.. try it out but make sure you have a good refund poicy, because it will come around and bite you ( in the you know where )..

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Completely wasting money, January 20, 2005

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D. M. Rogatkin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RCA DRC240N DivX-Capable Progressive-Scan Single Disc DVD Player (Electronics)

I bought this player reading reviews from here, however it was a big mistake. Probably some reviews written by biased people.
What's good:
1. Sleek design
2. Eject from remote
3. Displays long file names in a scrolling line
What's bad
1. Too long time to recognize DIVX disks
2. Freezing and lips sync problem almost for every disk I tried including regular DVDs
3. No support from RCA and firmware updates
The player should be returned.