GoVideo CineVision DV1040 Progressive-Scan DVD/VCR Combo

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 13 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002D07PS
• Item model number: DV 1040
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 24, 2005

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
Get maximum versatility and powerful features with the GoVideo DV1040. The progressive-scan DVD player offers the highest-quality viewing experience when coupled with a compatible television. 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.

You can effortlessly record to VHS while viewing a DVD and enjoy GoVideo's innovative AutoPlay feature, which skips ads and menus and goes to right to the start of the movie. GoVideo understands the importance of top-quality audio, too. The unit supports Dolby Digital and DTS digital audio, as well as virtual surround sound. In addition to DVDs and VHS tapes, the DV1040 is compatible with a long list of other media formats, including DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, music CDs, MP3 audio and JPEG image files on CD-R/RW. Now you can play and enjoy all of your media in a single device. The unit sports an easy one-wire (RF) hookup to playback VHS tapes and DVDs. There's also component, S-video, composite, and RF video outputs so you can make the DV1040 a fully integrated part of your home theater. An embedded cable tuner makes cable connections and channel changing a breeze.

Key features of the VCR section include hi-fi playback and record modes, as well as four heads for superior slow motion and stop action. In addition to progressive scan, the DVD section features a 10-bit video digital to analog converter and a 27MHz advanced digital filter. The included full-function remote controls VCR, DVD, and cable tuner functions.

What's in the Box
DV1040 DVD/VCR combo, full-function remote control, remote batteries, user's manual, A/V cables, RF cable.

Product Description
Go Video dual deck DVD/VCR combo.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars VCR Still Works, October 3, 2005

By	Arthem "arthem" (Knoxville, TN USA) - See all my reviews

I suppose I should look on the bright side - it still plays tapes. We got about three months out of this unit before the DVD player quit. Lens cleaning was no help. Over the last five years we've owned a Philips, Sony, Apex, Memorex, and now this thing. I thought it might help to buy one that wasn't made in China, but I guess I should be a good little consumer and just recognize that DVD players are disposable now. I won't, however, be buying another Go Video product.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good value nice features, June 26, 2005

By	S. Baker - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Some other reviewers are upset that their DVD units failed. Well, guess what, there is NO "reliable" DVD player on the market anywhere. Every model by every manufacturer has a failure rate per hundred that is higher than what people would put up with on any other type of product. That's just the way it is, which is why I buy a unit like this. My Go Video DV1040 has great features, works in harmony with human intuition and was very affordable. DVD players are disposable items. Get used to it. Maybe someday mine will fail too. I have had DVD players from several other companies over the years and theirs all failed, which is why I had to buy this one.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars RUN - Don't Walk - Away from this item, April 22, 2005

By	Bartholomew Q. "Bart" (Georgia USA) - See all my reviews

Is it possible to give an item no stars? If so, this product qualifies. I had my unit for a few weeks and the DVD player started acting up. Before two months were finished, it had quit. GoVideo's suggestion: use a lens cleaner. I sent the unit back and they replaced it with a 2150 model, but their warranty covers a second unit only for the remainder of the original warranty. Guess what? After two months, it went south too. My suggestion: Instead of buying a Go-Video product, save yourself some time and just burn your money.