The single most important invention in multimedia and storage is the DVD. High quality images, sound and data packed inside a small disk itself is a marvellous invention.
The success of this invention created the necessity of
DVD readers/players/Recorders which could read the
data stored inside or write the data to these magic
disks. Sony is in the far front of the electronics
market. The latest in Sony's DVD Recorder series,
the Sony RDR-GX300 DVD Recorder hit the markets
like a storm. With the ease of use and and the
topmost performance places the instrument in a class
of its own. One thing that is most likely to be the
best attraction is that, it is the cheapest DVD recorder ever
released by Sony. Despite the low prices, the
features, the power and the flexibility offered by this
DVD Recorder places it in the topmost row of the ranking.
Some important features of the new RDR-GX300
Recorder makes the burned DVDs play on numerous
varieties of DVD players. The RDR-GX300 Recorder
has digital audio outputs, which is coaxial (via
phono/RCA) type. Its analogue audio outputs have
stereo audio via 2 x phono/RCA sockets, video
in/outputs of SCART 1:RGB, S-Video, composite video
and stereo audio output of SCART 2: RGB, composite
video, stereo audio, smartlink, decoder inputs,
composite video & stereo audio out RGB loop through
with Scart 1 and 2. Such DVD home theatre systems
have INPUT, i.e. 2 x S-Video Din, 2 x composite
video, 2 x stereo audio (1 front-mounted) and
OUTPUT, i.e S-Video, composite video and stereo
audio component video output
Compatible formats while playback of the new RDR-GX3
includes DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R,
DVD+RW, DVD, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, PAL/NTSC etc.
Compatible formats wjhile recording includes DVD-R,
DVD-RW, DVD+RW, PAL/SECAM.
Edit
functions of such home dvd theatre systems are
random access edit functions on DVD-RW format discs.
Record options are 2 channel Dolby Digital encoding,
end search recording (finds black portion of disc
and starts recording), synchro record, variable bit
rate recording. Timer is VideoPlus, PDC (program
delivery control), VPS, quick-timer setup, and the
tuner is PAL/SECAM. Incorporated with NICAM digital
stereo reception technology, its record time is 4.7
GB disc.
Playback options
include tele-text title download. Digital sound
outputs of this class of dvd home theater systems
are Dolby digital, DTS, PCM, MPEG, DAC/Digital bits
is 12 Bit/108MHz Video DAC, 24 Bit/192kHz Audio DAC.
Remote control is of the dimension 430 x 89 x 380
and weighs 5.3 kg. It comes in Silver colour. On
screen display, video equalizers, and base corrector
are the additional features provided.
When there is a boom in the DVD market, Sony had
launched the second recordable DVD player. This
is the world's second
DVD-R/RW and DVD+RW DVD video recorder. The
sophisticated RDR-GX3 allows high quality DVD
recording and outstanding performance among the
family of DVD home theater systems. It is Sony's first budget DVD-R/RW and
DVD+RW video recorder.
The Sony DVD Recorder also features the
following. It plays pre-recorded DVD's & CD's,
records on DVD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+RW and blank media,
switches to video mode for recording discs that will
play in most existing DVD players, uses the single
layer 4.7GB DVD-RW (Re-Writable) and once only DVD-R
system, records in real-time using MPEGII
compression-up to 6 hours per DVD-RW disc. Quick
recording end search function of the RDR-GX300
DVD Recorder also finds the blank part of the disc
automatically.
