Sylvania DVR90DE Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder

by Sylvania

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 2.6 x 17.1 inches ; 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: B0001EZN48
• Item model number: DVR90DE
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,342 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Sylvania's DVR90DE DVD recorder lets you record your favorite television shows and treasured home videos to either high-quality, long-lasting DVD-R (write-once) and DVD-RW (rewriteable) discs. The recorder's built-in NTSC TV tuner and onscreen user interface permits up to eight timer recordings over a one-year period, with its six DVD recording speeds providing between one hour and an amazing 10 hours of content on each single-sided 4.7 GB recordable DVD.

You can even select and compile the best footage to commit to disc: the recorder's handy editing features include auto playlist creation, project titling, title deletion and editing, and scene deletion. A variety of video and audio inputs grant connection to virtually all televisions and home theater components.

What's in the Box
DVD recorder, a remote control, remote batteries, audio/video cables, and a user's manual.

Product Description

SYLVANIA DVR-90DE, DVD RECORDER

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars does not work with newer media, December 5, 2004

By 

E. Taylor (Sunland, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sylvania DVR90DE Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder (Electronics)

It's a shame because the unit works quite well with my older 2x dvd-rw media, but after buying some 4x -rw and 8x -r neither would work. Talking to customer support (on sunday morning, with an 800 number, after a 20 minute wait) they claim this unit will not work with the newer media, and so I asked what happens in a year or two when there are no more 2x -rw discs for sale, or 4x -r. The rep suggested I return it.

One other point: the manual appears to be a translation and the translator clearly does not understand English grammar. On the box it states: "this unit cannot record on any copyright protected dvd". This even stumped the support rep. Apparently it should have said "from" instead of "on". The manual is forever making these sorts of errors and it is often difficult to know exactly what are the correct procedures or restrictions.

Oh, my first attempt to play a recorded dvd (2x -rw which works) in my sony dvd player did not work until I put it back into the recorder and did a finalize operation. This could explain the difficulty another reviewer mentioned.

Sadly, I had to return the unit.

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Here is an email I got from cust support:

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Thank you for your inquiry:


Please check the list provided below, the problem is most likely a compatibility issue.


Below is a list of disc that should or should not be used with the recorders.


DVD-R
4x can be used
8x will result in a disc error.


DVD-RW
2x can be used
4x will result in a disc error.


QUALITY ASSURANCE
DVD DISCS

The following discs have been tested and are proven to be compatible with our DVD recorders.


MEMOREX DVD-R
FUJIFILM DVD-R
FUJIFILM DVD-RW
IMATION DVD-RW
IMATION DVD-R 2.0
TDK DVD-RW 2X
TDK DVD-R 2X


Funai Corporation
Customer Support

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Value and easy to use, June 29, 2004

By 

Roger (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sylvania DVR90DE Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder (Electronics)

I bought this product, took it out of the box, read the manual and started recording within hours. I get 10 hrs on one disc and find this plays on my DVD dual deck in the living room and on my computer DVD drive. I was suprised to see the review that says it is not compatable with other DVD players /recorders. It is DVD-R recordings, that when you make them, are compatable with more formats than Panasonics Ram format, which is only compatable with Panasonic. I can pl;ay on Hitachi, dvd player,Phillips, and Go Video which I and my kids all own, so I think the other reviewer has a Ram format DVD or he has a software problewm. Mine works great and is easy to use , with an idiot proof On Screen Icon menu.

Good Value, good sound and picture quality and easy to program.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You can use this as a DVD Music/Audio Recorder too!, October 11, 2004

By 

mixmaxter (near west 23st manhattan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sylvania DVR90DE Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder (Electronics)

I bought this player recently instead of a 'standalone' cd recorder which btw doesn't have these extra features. I hooked up my turntable (the one with the built-in pre-amp, so I didn't need a amp or reciever to go thru) set the recording mode in my case 6 hours (or how many hours you want) and connected the red and white audio wires from the audio (leave off the 'yellow' or video wire for an all blank screen). I recorded and then pressed 'stop' when the song was over to create a title or chapter, you can then edit the name the track title (as you would with a movie or something) . You can hold up to 10 hours of audio on one dvd-r media with this dvd recorder.

BUT the only thing is it holds up to 80 chapters (or titles?) because I already tried this if you go over 80 titles then you cannot finalize the disc or record passed 80 as it says 'disc error' you cannot record on this disc. One way to bypass this is when you reach say track (or title/chapter) 75 use the pause button instead (of stop), though when you reach track 75 you would have to manually fast forward on your remote to play the other songs recorded, so you can fill up the entire disc with 10 hours of music.

The music recorded off the turntable played back in dolby digital format even in the 10 hour mode

Right now I'm playing one of my dvd-rs that I filled with 6 hours of music with while typing this in dvd-rom, I can say goodbye to the ancient cd player which only holds 80 minutes of music. Oh I can also play my Audio/music dvd-r on most other dvd players including my panasonic!