Sony SLVD370P DVD/VCR Progressive Scan Combo Player

DVD player utilizing progressive scan digital video technology provides high resolution picture quality. Built-in Hi-Fi VHS VCR with Fast Rewind adds versatility and convenience. To ensure optimized audio playback, the player comes equipped with TV Virtual Surround Sound. Maintenance is also made easy with the VCR auto head cleaner. Global Product Type: DVD Player/Recorders DVD/VHS Combos; Playback Formats: CD-R; CD-RW; DVD-R; MP3; DVD-RW; DVD-Video; DVD+R; DVD+RW; JPEG; VHS Cassette; WMA; Audio Output: Digital Audio Output (Coaxial); RCA (L,R); Video Output: Coaxial digital Pin Jack; LINE Pin Jacks.
Slim down your home theater cabinet with the Sony SLV-D370P DVD/VCR combo player, which features component video ouput for vividly colorful progressive scan video. It plays just about any video disc format out there, from DVD-Video to DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW. The player also handles audio CD, VCD/SVCD, and CD-R/RW discs filled with MP3 music or JPEG image files. The front A/V inputs add convenience when you simply wish to quickly view those newly recorded videos from your camcorder.

Its full-featured, hi-fi stereo VCR permits you to record your favorite shows whilst watching a DVD. Auto clock and channel set-up makes recording of your favorite TV shows easy–just pop in a VHS tape and press record. Other VCR features include 8-event timer recording, two record settings (SP/EP), quasi S-VHS playback, four 19-micron video heads (for optimized EP recording), and flash rewind.

Sony’s Precision Cinema Progressive technology uses a 12-bit video DAC (digital-to-analog converter) with high-bandwidth, 108 MHz processing to detect image changes at the pixel level, slightly than at the level of whole scan lines. That makes this player’s picture more faithful to the source–whether film or video–because it uses separate, optimized algorithms to maintain different pixel behaviors. Separate algorithms are also used to process the moving and still parts of an image, resulting in sharp backgrounds with moving objects that are free from motion artifacts. The Precision Drive 3 feature provides a mechanism for reading DVDs that are in less than perfect condition, eliminating errors in playback as a result of imperfect, scratched, or warped discs.

The SLV-D370P offers a digital optical audio ouput, enabling Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound capability. Other connection options include:

• Component video (YPbPr; 480i/480p): 1 Out
• Composite AV (RCA): 2 Out; 2 In (1 front, 1 rear)
• S-Video: 1 In
• RF: 2

You’ll be able to get great picture reproduction from DVDs the use of the three-jack component video (Y/Pb/Pr) output, 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. Component video output is available only for DVD playback.

What’s in the Box
DVD/VCR combo player, remote regulate (with batteries), composite A/V cable, printed operating instructions, warranty information
Combo DVD/VCR unit with component video output for progressive DVD playback
Playback give a boost to for DVD-Video, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, VCD, SVCD, CD-R/RW, JPEG CD, and MP3 CD
VCR can record programming whilst DVD plays; 8-event recording
Video connections: Composite A/V (2 in, 2 out), S-Video (1 out), component (1 out)
Dolby Digital/DTS output via digital optical audio output