Panasonic PV-D4763S Progressive-Scan DVD-VCR Combo (Silver)

Panasonic PV-D4763S Progressive-Scan DVD-VCR Combo (Silver)
Manufacturer: Panasonic
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Panasonic DVD/VCR combination units are compatible with DVD, DVD-R, Video CD, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3 and WMA (Windows Media Audio) formats. JPEG images burned to CD-R/CD-RW may also be viewed in a variety of play modes.A high density, progressive video signal produces a much clearer DVD picture when used with a digital television with 480p display capability or better.Virtual Surround Sound provides a cinema-like experience on systems with only two speakers when playing any Dolby Digital-encrypted DVD or Video CD with two or more channels.Since select DVD/VCR combos are the same width as standard audio components, they can help you create an attractive-looking home theater system.Multi-Brand Universal Light Tower Remote Control - this illuminated remote operates the various functions of most current VCRs and cable/DSS boxes to help reduce the number of remote controls needed to operate the components in your home theater system.Front A/V inputs make it easy to connect your camcorder, headphones, game system or other video equipment to your DVD/VCR combo.
Amazon.com Product Description
The Double Feature PV-D4763S integrates a high-quality, progressive-scan DVD player and four-head, hi-fi VCR into a slim and handsomely designed package. Format compatibility extends from DVDs, videocassettes, and CDs to audiophile-quality DVD-Audio discs, MP3 CDs, JPEG image CDs, recordable audio CDs, and DVD-R video discs. This unit even features a built-in SD memory card slot and onboard JPEG viewer software so you can enjoy a variety of personalized media, including music mixes, still photos, and MPEG-4 video.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the PV-D4763S 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, providing higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts. Six-channel DVD-Audio recreates the delicate nuances and subtle overtones of music far more realistically than CD recordings can. The format also provides enhancements, depending on disc content, such as song lyrics, liner notes, "photo albums" of band members, and other menu items which can be displayed onscreen.

As an anti-piracy measure, the PV-VD4763S performs its own decoding of DVD-Audio signals, passing high-resolution analog, not digital, audio to your surround receiver. This means you'll need an audio/video receiver with multichannel analog-audio inputs to appreciate this feature. The player also decodes Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround signals. The VCR's four-head design ensures smooth slow-motion tape play (forward and reverse) and clear still-frame images, and with hi-fi sound the unit records and plays back stereo audio tracks. The unit even lets you record a TV show while watching a DVD at the same time.

Average customer rating: 5.0

This little gadget works great!
nice...but.....
Fast and Useful!
Worked for me
AM99 is AWESOME for basic communication in China

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Chinese learning software and electronics

AM99 Electronic English Chinese Talking Dictionary for Learning Chinese

Manufacturer: BBKUSA
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000CPS3SY

Related Categories:

Electronic Dictionaries, Thesauri & Translators

Product Description

For English speaker learning Chinese Mandarin, business travelers to China, AM99 is an indispensable tool that provides instant English-to-Chinese and Chinese-to-English bi-directional translations and dictionaries. The BBK AM99 provides authentic pronunciation in both Mandarin Chinese and American English, with both Pinyin and Phonetic display for the Chinese translations. Besides, AM99 includes English and Chinese idiom dictionaries, specialized technical dictionaries for Biology, Computers, Business, Western and Chinese Medicine. An uniquely designed and comprehensively grouped vocabulary with common dialogue phrases help travelers to navigate in Chinese, as well as convenience features including Calendar, World Clock, Alarm, Stop Watch, Timer, Calculator, and Unit and Currency Converters. Other functions include Knowledgebase for Music, Poetry, Arts, History, Chinese Handwriting, Travel Sites, and Chinese customs, training tools for Spelling, Pinyin, Phonetic, and US Citizenship quiz. AM99 comes with carrying bag, earphone, user manual, and AAA battery, with one-year parts and labor warranty.

Customer Reviews:

This little gadget works great!.......2006-09-07

My daughter took this to China with her and she said it was fantastic! She was in the hotel and needed to ask the maid for more towels and able to do it using this gizmo.

nice...but............2006-09-03

I found the AM99 to be pretty easy to understand and to begin using. It doesn't have all the words that I had been learning buy studying the Pimsleur Mandarin course but that was to be somewhat expected. My only disappointment was the Pinyin input capabilities. 1st you cannot enter tones. 2nd the results are all in Chinese and you have to select each character to get it's English meaning and you have to start all over to go to the next character. 3rd there were several Pinyin words that I tried to enter but the Am99 would not accept them. Try a simple word such as "nar3" and you can only input "na". Pinyin input was the #1 reason I went with the AM99 and after getting it Pinyin input is my #1 complaint. The AM99 also is limited due to its clock functions being set to Beijing. You set it for you local time (wherever that is) and the AM99 takes that to be Beijing local.

Fast and Useful!.......2006-06-20

Others have testified to this product's usefulness, but I just want to throw in a thought about a written dictionary v. an electronic one. I've taken one year of Chinese, and I'm now doing a Chinese immersion program in Beijing. Suffice it to say, my Chinese sucks, but it's getting better. However, just yesterday I had a three-hour conversation with a Chinese woman at a restaurant. Without my dictionary, it would have been impossible b/c I would have spent so much time flipping through pages. Electronic dictionaries enable you to have (relatively) meaningful conversations even at a low skill level. So get one! This one's great!

Worked for me.......2006-06-14

I've done all the cassettes and CD program in the car, but those can only take you so far. When in China, I've always failed to make it to conversation level. At the very least, there are some terms that seem to be stumbling blocks. That's when I whipped out this pocket electronic gizmo. Worked well, however its not intuitive in its design. One really should sit down and try to read the manual before using it in a real life setting.

Ideally, you really need to study Chinese in an academic setting along with this product. That's when you can really leverage its variations for a particular word. The voice sounds are realistic and not computer-sounding.

In short, this a useful tool, but certainly not the savior to your language barrier.

AM99 is AWESOME for basic communication in China.......2006-04-13

My mother bought the AM99 for my recent trip to Shanghai. She was worried because I never learned how to speak Chinese and that I might get lost somewhere without being able to find my way back. When I got there, of course (as I often do) I got lost around the Xiangyang Market and had no clue where the metro was or how to pronounce my destination to a taxi driver. After asking some locals for directions (with my usual charade of motioning arms and speaking loudly in English), they were seriously confused, so I took out my AM99 and typed in train. It announced the word train in Chinese and they pointed me in the correct direction. From then on, I used that method the whole time in Shanghai. The phrase guide helped me bargain at the market, ask where the tourist office was and to ask for a restroom. Although my communication was very basic, I got around much easier than if I didn't have it with me. This device is excellent for anyone who doesn't have the time to learn Chinese, but needs to know some basic words and phrases. Love it love it love it! I wish this came in all languages; then I'd be set!

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