Remanufactured Philips DVD750VR Progressive-Scan DVD-VCR Combo

Remanufactured Philips DVD750VR Progressive-Scan DVD-VCR Combo
Manufacturer: Philips
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Product Description
Watch movies from VHS tape or from premium-quality progressive-scan DVD, view digital-image slide shows, listen to audio CDs with crystal-clear sound, or play homemade MP3 CDs through living-room speakers -- all from one affordable, space-saving device. The Philips DVD750VR also lets you record off-air in hi-fi stereo sound and watch a camcorder or hook up a gaming console through its convenient front-panel audio/video inputs. Picture-CD functionality includes one-by-one playback and image zoom.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVD750VR stands ready to deliver the full potential of 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 DVD750VR also performs 3:2 pulldown. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture. S-video and shared DVD/VCR composite-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television.

A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's coaxial digital-audio output for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. If you don't have a surround receiver or six-channel speaker setup, you can still make every movie night the ultimate experience: 3D sound simulates surround sound through two speakers (even the stereo speakers on a TV).

The VCR's four-head design ensures smooth slow-motion play (forward and reverse) and clear still-frame images, and with hi-fi sound the unit records and plays back stereo audio tracks. SQPB (quasi-S-VHS playback) lets you watch S-VHS tapes -- which normally requires a special S-VHS VCR -- at standard VHS resolution. Other features include timer recording, auto head cleaning, auto repeat playback (great for trade shows and presentations), high-speed search, and one-touch recording.

What's in the Box
DVD/VCR combo, remote control (with batteries), user's manual, stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable, RF coaxial video cable, warranty information.

Average customer rating: 4.0

C-Pen 800 rocks
Easy way to organize
Absolutely incredible
Fairly Accurate,Nice editing features, Useful s/w
C-Pen 800 is great

C Pen 800 Handheld Scanner

Manufacturer: C Technologies
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00004YUQ1

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Product Description

For something so small (not larger than a fat permanent marker) the C-Pen 800 is very powerful, combining scanning capabilities with 8Mb of Flash memory and infrared communication between a compatible PC, along with Palm and Pocket PC handhelds. By far the most impressive tool, and certainly the most useful, is the scanning technology. This works via a tiny digital camera at the base of the C-Pen that is activated when it is swiped across a page. Capable of reading text at speeds up to 15cm/s, C-Pen can be used to read single lines and paragraphs of text and, if need be, whole articles. A handy supplement to the scanning capabilities is the C Dictionary, which allows you to install several bilingual Oxford or Norsted dictionaries onto the C-Pen. The dictionaries can then be used to translate text, simply by scanning the relevant text with the translation clearly displayed on the C-Pen. The display screen is of a decent size, and can be altered depending on whether you are left or right-handed. Navigation is carried out through the use of a nifty wheel on the top of the device - scroll it up and down to navigate through menus and press in to select an item. With C-Pen 800 you have your tasks fulfilled in minutes just with the help of a pen!

Amazon.com Product Description

The C Pen 800 from C Technologies is a handheld scanner that can hold up to 3,000 pages of text. It uses OCR and an 8 MB memory to convert printed words to fully editable text, thanks to its compact infrared technology.

The C Pen 800 has a calendar and an address book that can hold up to 1,000 contacts. Its C Dictionary allows you to translate a scanned word from a number of different lexicons. Additional dictionaries can be downloaded in a variety of languages. With C Direct you can use your pen to scan lines of text directly into any document on your PC. You can also write or take notes with your C Pen using the C Write function. Simply use the pen to write on a patterned surface, and the device records your written characters into the memory just like any other printed text.

The C Pen 800 has an LCD so you can read back the words or characters you've recorded for instant editing. The translation capabilities of the C Pen make it a great choice for travelers and students. The pocket-sized C Pen weighs only 85 grams, and it has a built-in battery that lasts two to three weeks with normal use. --Megan Dugan

Customer Reviews:

C-Pen 800 rocks.......2002-12-06

I love my c-pen, this thing takes about 1 hour to get good with, the mistakes that it makes are rare but consistent, once you figure them out you catch them right away. I am a law student and this makes briefing and getting quotes exactly right easy! For the money this is the best little helper I have. The dictionary is a nice benefit and the battery lasts forever-like a week or two with frequent use.

Easy way to organize.......2002-06-14

No more clutter or mess, with all the business cards and no more trying to write everything into my Palm. Now all I do is scan the card and beam it to my Palm. I love it!!! I scan notes from others to take with me, I scan articles in magazines that I need. I even use it for the class that I am taking, to quick scan (highlight) points of interest in class books. I can share all my infomation with my Palm. Hey wouldn't it be great if you could get a Scan Pen/Palm/Cell Phone all in one. I know I would buy that. This a great little tool, for school, for work, for home, for play. I wish I had it years ago.

Absolutely incredible.......2002-04-08

My friend has one of these and I am going to order one as soon as I find some money lying around. I scanned a page of a textbook and it only got a few letters wrong which I consider really awesome considering that my two-hundred dollar scanner and five-hundred dollar OCR software gets at least 50 characters wrong per-page. If you have massive ammounts of homework like I do, get one of these and you can just scan all the answers straight out of the book. I promise, this product is worth every cent you pay for it.

Fairly Accurate,Nice editing features, Useful s/w.......2001-08-18

When I got this product, I was a little disappointed with its scanning accuracy. But later after a firmware upgrade, I found it to improve dramatically. It does take some time to getting used to. But once you know all the features, it is very easy to use. I gives very good accuracy for text with standard fonts. Non-Standard fonts and very small(fine prints) does create some problem. I do not think that OCR need to be perfect, it just needs to be consistent(and not gramatically correct like quicklink). What is more important is the easy to use editing feature. With C-Write(If you are already a palm user you will love this feature), editing is a breeze. Infact the graffiti is more natural(than even palm) and is consistently accurate(if not as fast as palm). I do like the selective cut/paste feature. You can also find some interesting free s/w like JNotes(which allows you to scan any handwritten text to an image) or the barcode scanner(which supports various formats). The memory is sufficient for normal purposes. The advanced calibration feature is quite useful for capturing lighter text or text from colored paper(It also helps get a clearer image in JNotes). In overall, I would strongly recommend this product to anyone planning on serious ocr from hardcopy texts. It would have been nice if the lcd display had a backlight, for lowlight conditions.

C-Pen 800 is great.......2001-04-29

I just bought the C-Pen 800. It has a built in battery and comes with a carring case. The battery seem to last typically a week. I think C-Pen is much better than the 600 and 200 because of the built in battery. I mainly use the C-Pen for the dictionary which comes with the purchase of a 800. And you get to choose which dictionary you want. The dictionary is great. I am using a webster and it gives everything that's important. Only thing it doesn't give is the pronunciation and sentences. It takes getting use-to to scan and write things using the C-pen, but once you get the hang of it, it isn't a big problem. I think the only limitation of the c-pen is it's memory. I can only put one dictionary at a time depending on the size of the dicationary. I have the webster which takes alot of space. One more thing that I thought was kind of annoying was I had to buy a infared device for the use of my c-pen 800. I guess it was my fault because I didn't look at the information carefully enough but if the pen is a C-pen ###C, it means that it can use a cable. If it is C-pen ### and it doesn't have a C, it means it uses a infered device. Besides that I think the pen is great.

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