Sony SLV-D350P DVD / VCR Combo

Sony presents an irresistible combination… the SLV-D350P DVD/VHS Component, designed to offer you the benefits of a DVD Player and VCR in one impressive product.
With its WEGA-styled chassis, Sony’s SLV-D350P is the perfect high-convenience complement to today’s silvery home-entertainment components. This versatile combination deck offers the convenience of VHS recording and playback and high-end progressive-scan DVD performance, handling just about any imaginable media format, from VHS and S-VHS tapes (which it plays at standard VHS resolution) to DVD-Video, video-mode DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW, as well as MP3 CD and JPEG picture CD. From your library of VHS videos to your digital music files and digital photos, the SLV-D350P lets you enjoy them all in the comfort of your living room or bedroom.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you’re merely thinking of “at some point,” the SLV-D350P can 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 the use of twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images even as eliminating nearly all motion artifacts. Other DVD functions include bookmarking, picture zoom, parental lock, and a screen saver.

The VCR section offers one-month, eight-event advance programming to commercial skip. Your camcorder or gaming console plugs right into the front panel for hassle-free connections. Its 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. Its 19-micron heads deliver the clearest conceivable picture when recording or viewing in EP (extended-play) mode.

Commercial skip makes it easier than ever to zip past commercials and unwanted “coming attractions,” jumping forward 30 seconds for every press of the commercial-skip button.

Connections with combo units are continuously inconvenient, forcing you to use separate video hookups for each section (DVD, VCR), a problem for older TVs. This player has it figured out: a single RF or composite-video connection to a television will display either the DVD or the VCR signal, depending on which format you’re viewing. If you wish to view DVDs in S-video or in component-video (either interlaced or progressive-scan), it is very important use two inputs, as the device will not upconvert the signal from the VCR to either of those higher-resolution formats. Not to worry, though: any component- or S-video-equipped TV will offer sufficient inputs for both of the SLV-D350P’s formats.

It’s a different arrangement for audio: you’ll listen through a single set of stereo analog-audio cables for each component (one is supplied), or–If you wish to enjoy DVDs in discrete 5.1-channel surround sound–you’ll send the DVD’s audio to a compatible audio/video receiver and a multichannel speaker system through a digital-audio interconnect (either optical or coaxial, not supplied). The unit also comes with an RF cable that will transmit DVD/VHS audio and video to your TV, a multilingual onscreen display (English, Spanish, French), and a multibrand TV/DVD/VCR remote regulate.

What’s in the Box
DVD/VCR combo, remote regulate, remote batteries (two AA), user’s manual, stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable, coaxial video cable, and warranty information.
DVD/VCR combo unit with WEGA styling, progressive-scan DVD output, and 1-month, 8-event VCR programming
Plays video-mode DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW playback, plus MP3 CD, JPEG CD, and quasi-S-VHS playback (at VHS resolution)
DVD bookmarking, resume, and picture zoom
4-head VCR offers commercial skip, 19-micron heads for clear images from EP recordings
Includes multibrand remote regulate that operates most TVs