RCA DRC8052N DVD Recorder

by RCA

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 16.9 x 11 x 2.6 inches ; 8.6 pounds
• 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: B000FCR3O4
• Item model number: DRC8052N
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,149 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

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RCA’s DVD Recorder makes it easy to record your favorite movies and television shows to DVD for later viewing and archiving. The HDMI interface ensures a simple and superior one-cable digital connection, plus upconversion of images to stunning high definition.

Feature List

• DVD Recorder
  Record from your TV, camcorder, or other video device, using DVD+R/+RW or DVD-R/-RW Discs
• HDMI™ w/HD Upconversion
  A High Definition Multimedia Interface™ (HDMI™) output that connects the DVD player to your HDMI™ equipped television for stunning digital images from DVD. Upconverts DVD images to high definition resolution.
• DV-Input w/Camcorder Control
  This high quality digital connection is ideal for transfer of Digital Video (DV) camcorder home videos over to DVD. It also includes camcorder control to simplify the process
• DivX®
  DivX® is a video compression format that allows much more information to be stored on a single DVD. This DivX® certified player will playback DivX® formatted discs with all the features intended by the author
• DivX® Certified
  Plays all versions of DivX® video (including DivX®6) with standard playback of DivX® media files
• Front Audio/Video Input Jacks
  Allows convenient hook-up of camcorders, mp3 players and other devices
• Interactive User Interface
  With this unit’s user friendly interface, DVD recording and playback have never been easier

Product Description

RCA DRC8052N DVD Recorder

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible RCA Product, August 3, 2007

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R. Slaney - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RCA DRC8052N DVD Recorder (Electronics)

Bought this in March of '07 and 5 months later it wouldn't even power on. Regardless of what some reviewers might think it was not because of my stupidity but of the poor quality of the product. Customer service is incompetent and hard to understand. The service policy is to ship it back on your own dime and hope they have it in stock to send a replacement a few weeks later. You are rolling the dice if you buy one of these.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars defective out of the box, January 3, 2007

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Amy Warren "amerswarren" (Maple Grove, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RCA DRC8052N DVD Recorder (Electronics)

Bought this unit. It will not power up right out of the box. I would not suggest buying this item. I have read several other reviews stating the same thing. It appears this item has serious qaulity issues.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Identical problem to S. A. Robbins' review, April 1, 2007

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Stegor "Greg Mathieson" (Lakeville, Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RCA DRC8052N DVD Recorder (Electronics)

I had the exact same experience as one of the spotlight reviews: Cable reception is worthless, and so is the customer service.

I couldn't get it to recognize my cable signal any better than black and white and fuzzy. If I switched it to antenna instead of cable it would recognize channels 1-13 clearly, nothing above that. There's something wrong here, because I've never had a problem with any other device.

So I tried calling customer service since there was nothing addressing the problem in the user guide or the help website. After being on hold close to an hour I boxed it up and it's going back.

There are aspects I like about it, but without the basic functionality of cable reception it's useless.

Until now Sony was the only brand I wouldn't buy because of serious quality issues. Now I have to consider adding RCA.

For those of you that like it and it works for you, splendid! For those of us that are disappointed, it's not because we don't know any better, it's because it doesn't work.