RCA RTD500 Multimedia Jukebox Home Theater System with 40 GB Hard Drive

RCA RTD500 Multimedia Jukebox Home Theater System with 40 GB Hard Drive
Manufacturer: RCA
Product Type: CE

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Product Description
mfr: RCA RCA RTD500 400-Watt Home Theater System Music Jukebox with DVD Player Plays DVD, CD & CD-R/RW ; The ultimate Home Theater System - a digital music box, DVD player, MP3 filling station & photo manager ; DVD home theater receiver ; True-to-life 5.1 Surround Sound; 40 GB hard drive - digitally store up to 800 CDs or 8,000 songs, convert music collection to MP3s for playback Digital Cinema & Video Mode Progressive Scan - adds 3:2 pulldown (doubles the lines of resolution) & motion compensation ; Digital AM/FM tuner with 40 preset stations ; CD information displayed on TV screen ; Transfer music to Lyra(R) portable digital player ; Embedded Gracenote(TM) database recognizes CDs automatically ; Embedded Loudeye(TM) database of 250,000 album covers; Includes remote with battery, external AM loop antenna, FM antenna, ;video cable, s
Amazon.com Product Description
Get the most from your movies, music, and digital photos with RCA's RTD500 complete home theater and multimedia entertainment system. The system provides full Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround sound from DVDs plus playback for MP3-music and JPEG-image CDs--not to mention a 40 GB hard-disk drive just waiting to house your entire music collection.

You can rip about 800 CDs straight to the system's hard drive in MP3 format, and the RTD500 will even supply the artist and song data using its embedded (and upgradeable) Gracenote CDDB database. While you're listening, the system will display the appropriate album covers, thanks to its embedded/upgradeable Loudeye image database.

Use the onscreen display to create custom music playlists and sort your library by artist, album, track, or genre--perfect for instant theme parties. You can even use the system to transfer MP3 music to your RCA Lyra portable digital music player through the RTD500's handy front-panel USB port.

The system's central unit merges a DVD/CD player, hard-disk recorder, and audio/video surround receiver. The receiver powers the supplied 5.1-channel speaker system (front and rear left/right, center speaker, and passive subwoofer) with 60 watts per channel x 5 and a powerful 120 watts for the 6.5-inch subwoofer.

The system's discrete Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel audio decoding lets you enjoy spacious, full-bodied surround effects from commercial DVDs and DTS surround-sound music CDs. Your Dolby Pro Logic-encoded VHS tapes will sound great in 4-channel surround (left, center, right, and monaural left/right surround), and the system even features Dolby Pro Logic II, special processing that generates 5.1 mixes in real time from any stereo (2-channel source).

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the RTD500 is equipped to deliver the full potential of your DVDs. 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.

The RTD500 also performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; reverse 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture.

One each optical digital-audio input and output are available for using the system with (for instance) a digital satellite receiver or a CD recorder, respectively. You also get 3 composite-video inputs (2 outputs), 2 S-video inputs (1 output), and a total of 4 stereo analog audio inputs (1 output).

A drift-free, digital FM/AM tuner offers 40 station presets so your favorite stations are never more than a button-push away.

What's in the Box
DVD player/integrated surround amplifier, stereo analog audio cable (RCA), a composite-video cable, an S-video cable, 4 satellite speakers, a center speaker, a powered subwoofer, a remote control (RCR615ABM1), remote batteries, an AM antenna, a user's manual, all requisite cabling.

Average customer rating: 3.5

The best monitor I ever worked on
SpookSync 1370
The hottest monitor now available!!

NEC MultiSync FP1370 Totally Flat 22" CRT Monitor

Manufacturer: NEC
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00004Y6C8

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Amazon.com Product Description

For those always in search of the cream of the crop, NEC Technologies offers the MultiSync FP1370 22-inch monitor. Improving upon the award-winning FP1350, NEC takes it to the next level, providing even greater resolution (2,048 x 1,536 maximum), greater horizontal frequency (130 kHz), a unified 0.24-millimeter grille pitch, and a maximum refresh rate of 160 Hz (at lower resolutions). These features, along with an antistatic treatment and a multilayered, semi-dark tint screen, practically eliminate annoying glare and make it easier on your eyes.

Designed for professional, high-end use (Mac or PC), the superior image quality of the FP1370 makes it the ideal professional tool for graphics, Web design, desktop publishing, CAD/CAM, and other graphics-intensive applications. It also comes loaded with other features, such as onscreen controls, a two-way USB channel for peripherals, and second-generation digital signal processing (DSP) technology. With a three-year warranty and superior image quality, the FP1370 is a top-of-the-line model that can meet the demands of uncompromising users.

Product Description

The MultiSync Flat Professional (FP) Series incorporates the latest in CRT advancements and NEC patented circuit technologies, offering a totally flat screen and excellent precision for users who run graphic-intensive applications, including CAD/CAM, graphic design, animation, and web design.The MultiSync FP1370 22" (20" viewable image size) monitor is as uncompromising as the design professionals they were made for. The totally flat viewable image virtually eliminates distortion and glare. Add a 0.24 mm grille pitch and 130 kHz horizontal frequency and the level of razor-sharp detail is simply unprecedented.

Customer Reviews:

The best monitor I ever worked on.......2006-01-15

I just noticed the bad reviews and I just wanted to set the record straight. I am an engineer and got an NEC FP1370 at work mid-1999 for my PC workstation. It is the best thing that ever happened to me. This screen solved overnight my headaches due to eyestrain. Set-up at 1600x1200 @85 Hz, the image was unbelievably crisp to the point of reading comfortably 2 pages side by side instead of printing. This was with a professional graphic card Elsa that could really drive this screen. Since I have changed for a Dell laptop that can only drive a resolution 1280x1024 @85 Hz, it is comfortable but I miss the higher definition. An even lower resolution such as 1024x768 with this size of screen will get the eyestrain back; the pixels become too big, it has nothing to do with the screen. A 22" screen require high resolution, otherwise the size is wasted.
Bottom line: the FP1370 was advertised as the top of the line screen, it works so well that I will continue with this screen during my next computer upgrade in February 2006.

SpookSync 1370.......2001-12-04

I've had this monitor in my mind for many months because its specs were excellent and I thought the 17" versions from NEC were awesome. I was looking forward to high resolutions at high refresh rates.

I read a review at ePinions about "ghosts" and didn't frankly believe it because the reviews in CNET Shopper were all positive, except one who complained about the illegibility of text. Now I know the source of the problem.

I wish I listened! What a major disappointment after the long wait and expectations. Each black letter on a white background has an ugly bright ghost to its right. I spent an hour fiddling with convergence (basic and area) and all the other settings to no avail. I tried many resolutions and refresh rates, even suspected my new ELSA video card and installed the old one to be sure, and moved the monitor to other locations to eliminate the possibility of electromagnetic interference; nothing changed.

Increase the sharpness to 4 and the ghosts will be much more pronounced and uglier. It looks as if every dark line has a long bright smear to its right, as if somebody pressed his finger against the screen and smudged it to the right. Letters were simply bleeding bright white to the right. Those ghosts make sans-serif letters (as in Arial or Verdana) very blurry and a major hassle to read.

I called NEC tech support just one hour after plugging in the monitor, and the engineer offered the same advice on their web site; that I had to unplug any extension cable between the monitor and the PC. But I don't have an extension cable! I just plugged the monitor directly to the PC using the standard data cable that comes with it. Then he simply told me to return the monitor without bothering to try further remedy. His quick suggestion sounded very suspicious; simply return the monitor after only a couple of minutes of support over the phone. This clearly tells you that NEC knows very well about this terrible problem, and in spite of that, they let people buy this "prestigious" monitor, which is supposed to represent the best NEC has to offer.

I thought the data cable that comes with it is unusually thin, so it could be that the cable's quality is causing interference. I shelled out the next day (price) for Belkin BNC cable; I just wanted to rule out the last possible cause and exonerate the monitor; still, the ghosts didn't nudge!

Just before I returned it, I noticed two vertical lines at the middle of the screen that resemble the standard horizontal lines that show up on all Trinitron monitors. Only this display has four of them.

Steer clear of this display; it's too expensive and heavy for a paper-weight.

The hottest monitor now available!!.......2001-04-07

The 22" (20" usable) NEC FP1370 monitor is the hottest
display available! We now own three at the office, are about to buy a
fourth, and I'm trying to convince my wife that I need one at home as
well <g>. Especially in a multi-tasking environment, any large
monitor enables you to work more efficiently as you can see more of
what you are working on at the same time, eliminating need for much
scrolling and window manipulation. However, the totally flat display
coupled with the remarkable resolution and refresh rate capability of
the FP1370 enables you to work routinely with a very high resolution
(1280x1024, or even 1600x1200) for hours at a time without eye strain.
In practice at our jobs, this means we can see four times as
much material at one time than we could with our old 17"
monitors. While the price is admittedly steep, especially for
personal use, the productivity gains possible make the NEC FP1370 well
worth considering at least for office use.

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