Toshiba SD 37VSR - DVD/VCR combo

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 16.9 x 9.1 x 3.5 inches ; 10 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 15 pounds
• ASIN: B000M9DJKW
• Item model number: 37VSR
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #76,382 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 28, 2006

Product Description

Product Description

Toshiba DVD/VCR combo player SD-37VSR is incorporated with the JPEG viewing function to allow you the convenience of viewing the playback of recorded JPEG images on your TV screen, and let you maximize your viewing pleasure in the comfort of your own space. In addition, music recorded on CDs in MP3 format can also de playback.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars PAL Hi-Fi VCR and all-region DVD player, May 1, 2009

By	_-^-_ - See all my reviews

I bought this VCR for the purpose of playing PAL VHS tapes with Hi-Fi audio, and it works well for that purpose. The tape mechanism is quiet, especially compared to older VCRs.

Although it includes a YPbPr output, only the DVD/CD player part of the unit can use it (the VCR/TV tuner part cannot). The VCR/TV tuner part can only use the SCART output. A SCART-to-composite video and S-video adapter is included, but the S-video output is not supported. So, the composite video output is the only one that I can use for VHS playback. (I do not have equipment to test whether the SCART RGB output is active when playing VHS tapes or not.)

The included SCART adapter has an input / output mode switch. If you get no picture, make sure that this switch is set correctly!

The unit I received was packaged in a cardboard box with the DVD region 5 logo printed on it. However, I was able to play a region 2 DVD in the DVD player, so I suppose it allows all DVD regions.

The AC power connector is a Europlug, so a Europlug-to-NEMA adapter is required to use it in North America. According to the manual, the AC power must be from 110V to 240V and 50Hz. However, for me it seems to operate correctly when using it on 60Hz AC power in the United States.

Warning: the VCR part of this unit only supports VHS tapes recorded in the PAL and MESECAM formats. It doesn't support tapes recoded in NTSC format (the Canadian/Japanese/United States standard for analog SDTV and VHS tapes). The DVD player part does support playback of 480i/p DVDs using an NTSC composite video or 480i/p YPbPr output. However, it defaults to outputting 576i/p, and will only switch over to 480i/p once it begins to play a 480i/p disc, so you will not be able to see a picture until you insert a disc if you're using a monitor that doesn't support 576i/p.

It claims to be capable of playing/viewing some file types from CD / CD-ROM / CD-R / CD-RW discs, including CD audio, VCD video, JPEG images, "DivX" files (actually AVI files with MPEG-4 video and MPEG-1 layer 3 audio), and MPEG-1 layer 3 audio (MP3). I have not tried to use these capabilities.

For playing PAL or 576i/p video with this, I would recommend using a device that converts PAL composite video and/or 576i/p YPbPr video to DVI, HDMI, or VGA. There are several such devices available; they are intended for the purpose of connecting a video game console to a computer monitor. These should theoretically be capable of better video quality than PAL-to-NTSC converters are capable of. (However, one drawback of these devices is that they likely do not have any kind of subtitle decoding capability.)

1.0 out of 5 stars Miss Leading, June 10, 2009

By	Amelia Earheart "dvd shopper" (California) - See all my reviews

Terrible product, does not work in the US! Item description did not tell you this.