| Brand Name: | Zenith |
| Color Name: | Silver |
Product Specifications
Technical Details
- DVD recorder and VCR combo; measures 16.9 x 3.3 x 13.9 inches (WxHxD)
- Records onto both DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW disc formats
- Compatible with CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, VCD, and SVCD discs; MP3, WMA, JPEG
- Includes 1 RF in, 1 RF out, 1 composite in, 1 composite out, 1 component out, optical audio out, coaxial audio out
- Front-panel composite jacks for connecting video camcorders and game consoles
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Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description
Slim down your entertainment center components and add the ability to record your home video library to DVD with the multi-format, progressive scan Zenith ZRY-316 DVD recorder/VCR combo. In addition to DVD movie and CD audio playback capabilities, the ZRY-316 is also compatible with playing content from CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, VCD, and SVCD discs. Content compatibility includes MP3 and WMA digital audio and JPEG digital photos, as well as the ability to view photo slide shows with background music from disc. It records onto both DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW disc formats. The 4-head Hi-Fi Stereo VCR offers slow motion and stop action features along with hi-fidelity stereo sound.
DVD recording features include DVD/VCR dubbing, one-touch RW disc cleanup, instant timer record, and four recording modes (XP, SP, LP, and EP). It offers such DVD file management and editing features as thumbnail display and preview, title and chapter deletion, auto chapter marking modes (5 minute, 10 minute, and off) title name editing, and disc protection. It also offers such DVD playback features as zoom, bookmark search, aspect ratio selection, 1.5x playback with audio, and parental lock. It offers the following connections:
- RF In: 1
- RF Out: 1
- S-Video out:1
- Composite AV (RCA) In: 1
- Composite AV (RCA) Out: 1
- Component Video Out (Y PB PR): 1
- Optical audio out: 1
- Coaxial audio out: 1
What's in the Box
DVD recorder/VCR combo, remote control (with batteries), AV cable, RF cable, blank DVD, printed operating instructions
Product Description
Slim Design Progressive Scan DVD Recorder/Hi-Fi VCR
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of options, but implementation isn't great,
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This review is from: Zenith ZRY-316 DVD Recorder/VCR Combo with Multi Format capability (Electronics)
This DVD/VHS recorder has a lot of things going for it, like the capability to read and write to DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW disks. It can dub (unprotected tapes) from VHS to DVD and vice versa, and has menu editing capabilities. If you check around, that's a lot to put into a package that only costs a little more than $200 brand new.
But when you put it through the paces, it doesn't really do a lot of stuff very good. It takes about 7-10 seconds to boot up at which time you see a "Zenith" text on the screen (it would be nice to see TV stations). It's clock doesn't keep good time, forcing you to have to reset it to get accurate recordings. It's DVD record quality is great in the one-hour mode and OK (but nothing spectacular) in 128 min mode, but really unacceptable in anything longer than that. You're better off recording to VHS if you need to go over 2 hrs. Some of its functions don't work very well at all. For ex, when you use the DUB function, you are supposed to be able to edit out portions of the tape by pausing and FFwding to the new part of the tape and then resuming recording. But it only seems to allow you to do it once; after that, it creates a separate recording (which isn't what you want). Also, when you start the DUB, it momentarily records from the TV tuner, so you have a split second of TV recording at the beginning of your recording. Also when using DUB, the tape starts rolling but it doesn't immediately start copying and takes about 4-8 seconds to do so. So where it begins is somewhere about 4-8 sec beyond where you wanted to start recording. When the player doesn't like a DVD (which can happen on a lot of DVD players) instead of just ejecting it it locks up the entire DVD, and there is nothing you can do but do a hard reset by holding the OFF button for 5 seconds (the remote buttons have no effect). It even sometimes freezes the last frame on the TV, even if you switch back to channel mode (the audio sounds fine, but you have a froozen frame on the screen) until you reset the device. In fairness it does most of the basic things fine. It just doesn't implement some of its functions very well. I'd give it a 2.5 star rating.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
don't waste your money,
By Midnight Cowboy "and FlixStix" (Cowboy State) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zenith ZRY-316 DVD Recorder/VCR Combo with Multi Format capability (Electronics)
The only thing this thing does well is play dvd's and tapes. As for dubbing ,that's a joke. I've owned it for over six months and can't get it to dub anything nor record from tv. Customer service is laughable- after FINALLY getting a rep to answer my call I still didn't get an answer. Basically I paid way too much money for a player. What a piece of junk.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Plays NTSC or PAL DVDs, nice surprise,
This review is from: Zenith ZRY-316 DVD Recorder/VCR Combo with Multi Format capability (Electronics)
As far as aesthetics -
I'm not big on the design with the DVD drive on the left. If that is the biggest drawback, then it really is no big deal. The 316 is in my bedroom, where it is seldom used. It plays any/every disk I have tried, even region 2 PAL format DVDs. Nice if you have imported DVDs from europe! Found that the disks recorded on this unit are not compatible with my old Emerson combo recorder,but no problem in others. I just discovered a 'safe' mode: where none of the keys on the front of the unit will work,yet the remote still works in safe mode...have to look into turning safe mode off. Which is funny,I bought this unit as broken,and all that was wrong was it was set into safe mode.The previous owner returned it as broke. Maybe it is just me, but after not using the recorder for maybe a month, I will find the remote batteries dead - It has happened twice. The ability to play PAL disks makes this deck a keeper!
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Legal Disclaimer
CONSUMER ALERT: This television receiver has only an analog broadcast tuner and will require a converter box after February 17, 2009 to receive over-the-air broadcasts with an antenna because of the U.S.'s transition to digital broadcasting. Analog-only TVs should continue to work as before with cable and satellite TV services, gaming consoles, VCRs, DVD players, and similar products. For more information, call the Federal Communications Commission at 1-888-225-5322 (TTY: 1-888-835-5322), or visit the commission’s digital-television Web site at: www.dtv.gov.
CONSUMER ALERT: This television receiver has only an analog broadcast tuner and will require a converter box after February 17, 2009 to receive over-the-air broadcasts with an antenna because of the U.S.'s transition to digital broadcasting. Analog-only TVs should continue to work as before with cable and satellite TV services, gaming consoles, VCRs, DVD players, and similar products. For more information, call the Federal Communications Commission at 1-888-225-5322 (TTY: 1-888-835-5322), or visit the commission’s digital-television Web site at: www.dtv.gov.
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