Samsung DVD-R145 DVD Recorder

Samsung DVD-R145 DVD Recorder
Manufacturer: Samsung
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Samsung's DVD-R145 Super Multi DVD Recorder makes it easier than ever watch and record your favorite CDs and DVDs. Create DVD discs from your favorite TV shows and movies. Record them to DVDs for DivX discs. You can even connect your digital camera or camcorder and burn your pictures or footage to disc. The HDMI input makes it easier than ever to connect to your digital entertainment. EVQ (Enhanced Video Quality) Front DV input CM advance Slim design (45mm) NOTE - Preliminary specs; subject to change
Amazon.com Product Description
Standing less than 2.5 inches tall, Samsung's stylishly black DVD-R145 is one of the most powerful entertainment recording and playback devices available today. It offers the widest assortment of DVD recording compatibility, featuring DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, and re-writable DVD-RAM as well as Dual-Layer DVD+/-R--enabling you to store up to 8.5 GB of video on these two-sided discs. Additionally, the DVD-R145 provides a time-slip function when recording onto DVD-RAM discs--enabling you to pause or skip backwards/forwards through a recording that's active.

The DVD-R145 is also an "upconverting" DVD player, which boosts the standard 480 lines of resolution from a DVD disc up to a high-def 1080i (interlaced) picture. To produce an upconverted picture, your high-def TV must have an HDMI connection (and HDCP support)--the 720p/1080i choice is only available when using the HDMI cable (which is not included). Also note that the DVD-HD1080 is not a high-definition DVD player (i.e., not to be confused with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD players, which play specially formatted high definition discs), so it will work with your existing DVD library.

A front-panel DV (FireWire IEEE 1394) input enables you to connect the family video camcorder and edit and record footage directly to a DVD disc--all via a single cable and without losing image quality. The EVQ (Enhanced Video Quality) feature provides sharper images and truer color reproduction for both movies and home videos. This unit also offers CM (commercial) advance, enabling you to skip ads from recorded TV programming recorded. Other features include CM (commercial) advance, STB (set-top box) control, and DivX playback. In addition to its ability to play back all current DVD formats, it's also compatible with CD-R/RW discs and MP3 audio and JPEG image files.

You can program recording via the timer, or choose easy one-touch recording (initiating playback at 30 minutes and adding 30 minutes with each additional press of the button, up to the available disc time or 240 minutes, whichever is sooner). Chapters are created when you record your favorite TV show or video clips from a camcorder onto a DVD disc. The chapters are automatically created, which eliminates wasted time searching the whole DVD to find the right spot. Up to 99 titles can be recorded onto one disc. With the simple and easy edit function menu, you can delete, copy, rename, and lock, among other things. You can also create a playlist and edit video in a specific sequence.

It offers the following connection options:

HDMI: 1 out
Composite video: 1 out
S-Video: 1 out
Component video: 1 out
Firewire: 1 in
RF: 1 in, 1 out
Analog audio: 2 in, 2 out
Coaxial digital audio: 1 out
Optical digital audio: 1 out

Tech Talk
HDMI is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver) with your TV--all over a single cable. HDMI supports standard, enhanced or high definition video, plus multi-channel digital audio on a single cable. It supports all ATSC formats--standard (SDTV), enhanced (EDTV), and high (HDTV).

Component video (also called Y/Pb/Pr) features a three-jack video input, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. You will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound.

What's in the Box
DVD recorder/player, remote control (with batteries), printed operating

Average customer rating: 4.0

Unique and unbeatable convenience
Phone book, Calendar & To-Do list
correction
Not compatible or defective?
Good value for money

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Xircom Rex 5001 with Docking Station

Manufacturer: XIRCOM
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00004SZ9F

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Product Description

Access your information anywhere, anytime with the Xircom REX 5000/5001 . This credit card-size, wearable information accessory keeps you in touch, up-to-date, and on track wherever your business takes you, without even thinking about it. Its small, ultra-slim design with its crisp, easy to read screen, lets you add, view, and manage your crucial information.

Amazon.com Product Description

The Xircom Rex 5001 is a credit-card-size personal assistant that readily plugs into your PC's card slot or the serial port or REX docking station to share data and quickly synchronize information. The highly readable nine-line LCD screen and intuitive six-button interface let you add, view, and manage information on the road and in the office. The system allows easy review and access to contacts with names, numbers, and addresses, and allows you to organize your time and keep track of appointments and task lists anywhere you travel.

The Rex 5001 runs for up to six months without needing fresh batteries or a recharge (it requires two CR2025 lithium batteries). The clock provides the correct time, no matter where you are in the world, and has an alarm to keep you on schedule. Although the Xircom REX 5001 does not require a PC, you'll want to network to capitalize on every benefit this organizer has to offer. Share your notes from the road with your desktop or notebook. The calendar tracks daily, weekly, and monthly data at a glance. Personal memos, notes, and much more information are all a touch away.

Xircom offers a one-year limited warranty on parts and labor.

Customer Reviews:

Unique and unbeatable convenience.......2001-10-26

I remember buying a Psion palm computer, and then an Ipaq Pocket PC to use as an organizer.

But for ease and convenience, absolutely nothing beats the Rex.

I mainly use as a little phone book, which I find myself in need a lot. Rather than bungling through my bag and looking for the Pocket PC, I just whip out the Rex and have the desired phone number in 1 minute.

I put the Rex in my front pocket of my pants, which may not be the best. However, my pants aren't that tight that it would be a big problem. I did have a Rex before where the screen started dying, but this was after years use. I don't think a wallet (back pocket) is a great place to put the Rex, as there probably isn't much slack back there (cough).

The Palm V is comparable, but it is still huge compared the the PC Card sized Rex.

The TruSync software wasn't as intuitive as I'd hope, but I got it working and sync'ed up with my Outlook data without any problems.

I am so happy with the Rex, that I have 2 just in case I lose one.

Phone book, Calendar & To-Do list.......2001-09-26

This is the greatest solution to carrying around a Phonebook, Calendar and & To-Do list I have ever seen!
Notebooks are just to large, cumbersome and take too long to boot up.
And compared to the REX, PDA's have the same handicaps. I understand you can do much more with a PDA but if Phone, Calendar and To-Do are what you want to do, this is it.
I fold my money around my Rex and keep it in my front pocket.
Intel has decided to drop the product line. The form/factor is exceptional.
This is a very, very good product and it serves a very definite, although limited, purpose.
The new breed of cell phones will make this product obsolete but for now it just does the job.

correction.......2001-08-26

shangs75 wrote that the rex 5000 doesn't take addresses. It does. The box and website is missleading too bacause all you see is a name and a phone number, but actually there is a lot more that you can't see. This is my first day with it so disregard my rating. lh

Not compatible or defective?.......2001-05-15

I could NEVER synchronize this thing with the PC. I use a Dell Optiplex GX1 with Windows NT 4.0, and it has Lotus Notes for e-mail and PIM. (Not my choice, its corporate software.) Finding and downloading the "driver" or "module" for Notes required a detective's investigation in their website, and their TrueSync software could not even synchronize with their own TrueSync PIM. When the Rex was finishing the sync, I always got an error message in Windows, regardless if I tried to sync with Notes or the "native" PIM software included in the CD.

Its software has serious quality issues with Windows 4.0, it proved this toy is incompatible with corporate computers. Maybe it was a defect in the Rex itself or its serial craddle, but I will never have the time to find out. PDAs are meant to save time, not to loose it on silly technical problems.

I will miss its down to earth simplicity and really portable size, but unfortunately it was never functional in my working environment. It seems that a Palm or Visor is as good as it gets for a basic, small, compatible, and dependable PDA.

Good value for money.......2001-04-20

I have recently purchased both the 5001 and the 6000 series REX, and found the 5001 to be more flexible in its synching options, and less delicate.

I use my REX primarily as an address book, to do list and notes. Input is not a big issue for me, nor is Web content downloads.

The 5001 uses the Starfish TrueSync technology to synch with any number of devices, including cell phones, Yahoo and Palm Desktop. I actually synch mine with both Palm Desktop and Yahoo simultaneously so that I have access to my addresses over the Internet.

The 6000 does not support TrueSync, limiting my synchronization options to be only Outlook, and the bundled desktop application. The 6000 also seems to be more delicate with both the screen and the buttons.

Bottom line: I just returned my 6000 and am ordering a second 5001.

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