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Lite-On AllWrite LVW-5005 DVD/CD Recorder
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Lite-On
Color: Gray
EAN: 0844149001227
Item Dimensions: 30016.5
Label: Lite-On
Manufacturer: Lite-On
Model: LVW5005
MPN: LVW5005
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lite-On
Studio: Lite-On
Features:- AllWrite DVD/CD recorder handles DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, and CD-R/-RW optical media; writes to DVD+VR-mode DVD and VCD/SVCD
- Records up to 6 hours on a single-sided 4.7 GB disc
- Built-in NTSC tuner lets you records TV programs directly to long-life recordable DVD; includes advance-programming options
- Convenient 1-touch recording makes it easier than ever to archive and preserve your precious home videos
- Measures 16.5 x 2.7 x 10.6 inches (W x H x D)
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Editorial Review:
Lite-On's LVW-5005 AllWrite DVD recorder revolutionizes the way you record your videos. It accepts all types of 5-inch recordable optical media: DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW, or CD-R/-RW. It's also equipped with analog and digital video inputs and MCTF (motion-compensated temporal filtering) video noise reduction to improve the quality of your programs as you record them.
Playback features abound, including MP3 CD and JPEG digital image CD and progressive-scan video outputs to deliver seamless, razor-sharp images on high-definition and HD-ready TVs and monitors. The player is capable of writing most video formats, too, depending on the type of blank media you're using: from highly compatible DVD+VR-mode video discs (DVD-Video) to video CD and SVCD (super video CD).
A single blank recordable DVD offers up to 6 hours of recording time (in SLP mode), which is equivalent to the maximum duration of a T-120 VHS videocassette in SLP mode. Unlike your SLP tape, however, your recordable DVDs won't degrade with every viewing, and access to points within the programs is incomparably easier. Moreover, the physical size of a single VHS cassette is about 10 times larger than a DVD disc.
For all DVD recording, each new recording is always placed after previous recordings unless you intent to overwrite it (when using rewritable media). The DVD recorder can automatically divide a recording into chapters by inserting chapter marks at 2- to 15-minute intervals during recording. Editing features include title edit, title naming, title protect, title overwrite, and title erase.
One-touch recording makes it easy to record favorite programs or capture video from external sources, including composite-video, S-video, and IEEE 1394 digital video. The unit's easy-track navigator provides a directory of thumbnail images so you can quickly and easily locate chapters on your DVDs. Unique thumbnails represent segments that you can play or edit.
Before sharing your digital content with others, all discs must first go through a process known as finalization. Once a DVD+R, DVD-R/-RW, CD-R or CD-RW disc has been finalized, it can be played back on other CD or DVD players or on PCs.
The recorder's convenient front-panel DV Link (IEEE 1394) input lets you transfer footage from digital camcorders or PC audio/video programming in their original digital quality.
As a player, the LVW-5005 positions you to enjoy DVD-Video discs in NTSC, PAL, and SECAM formats (depending on your media and your TV/monitor), DVD+VR (compatible with DVD-Video players in most cases), video CD, super VCD, audio CD, MP3 CD (maximum number of recognizable files: 1,000; compression rate: between 32 kbps and 320 kbps), and JPEG CD (maximum number of recognizable pictures: 1,000).
The component-video input (selectable between standard 480i and progressive-scan 480p) separates the color and brightness signals to ensure the highest picture quality. 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.
What's in the Box
DVD player/recorder, remote control, remote batteries, user's manual, an AC power cord, a stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable, and an RF coaxial AV cable.
Note: Lite-On recommends use of Nero 6 Ultra Edition disc-writing software, sold separately, for creating discs to be used for the components firmware upgrades. Further, not all high-definition televisions are fully compatible with this product's progressive-scan output, which occurs at 525p rather than the usual 480p, and may produce undesirable image artifacts. In the event of 525p progressive-scan picture problems, Lite-On recommends switching the component-video output to "standard definition" (480i).
Are you still deciding whether to choose between a +RW/+R and an -RW/-R DVD Recorder? LITE-ON IT introduces a solution that solves this ongoing dilemma. LVW-5005 DVD recorder AllWrite provides the best solution for simplifying your decision-making. The "All Write" capabilities of the LVW-5005 allow users to write their digital content to most popular digital discs, including DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW discs.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Liteon magic
These Liteon 5005 DVD recorders are sensational.They make beautiful recordings as good as Sony's for a lot less money.You can update the firmware and they can be set to be REGION FREE allowing playbacks of DVD's from throughout the world.Very easy to use the guider button makes it a snap even if you never operated a dvd recorder before.
Rating:  - Good price, short life.
When I bought this unit,it seemed to offer the best performance for the money. It was new on the market, and there seemed to be more customer complaints on more expensive Sony and Toshiba units. It was cheaper, far easier to use, and produced better video quality than a terrible Phillips unit it replaced.
As in other reviews, after a year or so, things started to go wrong. First, on an intermittent basis, after I loaded a blank disk, it would prepare it for recording, then read out "stop" ... Read More
Rating:  - Don't bother to buy it!
I got this as a Christmas gift & was pleased in the beginning. Then the door wouldn't open using the remote or the front panel buttons. Customer service is a bad joke; they don't answer their 800 number. It took 2 hours of being on hold to find out there is no local service available,you have to send it in for repair. If you read other customer reviews, this unit is notorious for the door not opening. Liteon is aware of the poor design yet they choose to not correct the problem. Avoid it at all costs. ... Read More
Rating: - Stopped Working
You'll see another review where someone says the DVD laser simply stops working around 7 months if you keep the unit on. I didn't know this when I bought it. I kept it on, and sure enough, 7 months later it stopped working.
Based on the reviews about the nighmare of dealing with their support and/or replacement equipment, I'm just going to cut my losses. Time to look for a well known name brand and purchase an extended warranty.
Lesson learned. Don't buy this unit.
Rating: - LITEON STOPPED SUPORTING THIS PRODUCT
Just learned, in the hard way, that Liteon stopped supporting this model. I sent my unit out for repair, for the second time in six months, and was informed that Liteon will replace my unit with a newer model. Unfortunately the "newer model" does not support PAL or multi region formats. Liteon refuses to even try to repair my unit. Very rude customer service.
Stay away from this manufacturer.
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