RCA DRC8040N DVD Recorder

RCA DRC8040N DVD Recorder

Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description
The RCA DRC8040N single-disc DVD recorder makes recording your favorite TV programs or dubbing footage from a camcorder directly to disc a snap. It records onto DVD+R/RW discs--up to 4.7 GB of data--and it can play DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, VCD, and SVCD discs (and discs with burned MP3 files). The DRC8040N has six record modes, ranging from one hour to eight hours. It has a built-in NTSC standard 181-channel tuner, enabling you to record programming without having to hook up to a TV, and offers a 30-second skip feature.

The Time Base Corrector feature helps to reduce digital noise, as well as eliminate picture jitters from videotape playback and restore distorted vertical and horizontal sync and color burst signals when copying from tape to disc. The SmartRecord feature automatically adjusts the Recording mode (quality) to fit recorded contents on the available disc space. The Disc Library feature stores a database of up to 400 titles that have been recorded, making it easy to access previously recorded programming.

It offers Dolby Digital and Dolby DTS 5.1-channel surround sound output as well as SRS TruSurround virtual surround sound. It has the following video connections:

Composite AV In (RCA): 2 (1 front)

Composite AV Out (RCA): 1

S-Video In: 2 (1 front)

S-Video Out: 1

Component Video Out: 1

RF In: 1

What's in the Box
DVD recorder, remote control, batteries, printed instructions

Product Description:
With this RCA DVD Recorder/DVD Player you can enjoy the latest technological innovations without sacrificing style!PRODUCT FEATURES: Digital Video Disc (DVD) Recorder; Progressive Scan (DVD Playback); Disc Library; Time Base Corrector with Digital Noise Reduction; SmartRecord; Up to 8 hours recording per 4.7 GB disc with 6 recording modes.

RCA DRC8040N DVD Recorder
Average customer rating:

Why no hard drive?

Worth a try as far as I'm concerned

I Found No problems so Far

RCA - so bad, they're literally criminal

STAY AWAY FROM ALL RCA, GE and PROSCAN products

RCA DRC8040N DVD Recorder

Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Accessories:

Monster Cable MV2CV-2M Monster Video 2 2-Meter Component Video Cable

Monster Cable High-Resolution S-Video Cable (6.6 Feet)

Monster Cable ULT I1000DCX-4 Coaxial Digital Interconnect

Monster Cable ULT I600-4 THX Ultra 600 Audio Interconnect

Monster Cable MP HTS 1000 PowerCenter with Clean Power Stage 2 (v.2.0)

Product Features:

Single-disc DVD recorder/player; measures 14.2 x 2.7 x 10.6 inches (WxHxD)

Records to DVD+R/RW; plays back DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD, and MP3

Time Base Corrector helps eliminate picture jitters from videotape

2 composite in, 1 composite out, 2 S-Video in, 1 S-Video out, 1 component out

Dolby Digital and DTS decoders

ASIN: B0006IJ9BM

Product Description

With this RCA DVD Recorder/DVD Player you can enjoy the latest technological innovations without sacrificing style!PRODUCT FEATURES: Digital Video Disc (DVD) Recorder; Progressive Scan (DVD Playback); Disc Library; Time Base Corrector with Digital Noise Reduction; SmartRecord; Up to 8 hours recording per 4.7 GB disc with 6 recording modes.

Amazon.com Product Description

The RCA DRC8040N single-disc DVD recorder makes recording your favorite TV programs or dubbing footage from a camcorder directly to disc a snap. It records onto DVD+R/RW discs--up to 4.7 GB of data--and it can play DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, VCD, and SVCD discs (and discs with burned MP3 files). The DRC8040N has six record modes, ranging from one hour to eight hours. It has a built-in NTSC standard 181-channel tuner, enabling you to record programming without having to hook up to a TV, and offers a 30-second skip feature.

It offers Dolby Digital and Dolby DTS 5.1-channel surround sound output as well as SRS TruSurround virtual surround sound. It has the following video connections:

Composite AV In (RCA): 2 (1 front)
Composite AV Out (RCA): 1
S-Video In: 2 (1 front)
S-Video Out: 1
Component Video Out: 1
RF In: 1

What's in the Box
DVD recorder, remote control, batteries, printed instructions

Customer Reviews:

Why no hard drive?.......2007-04-29

Why buy a DVD recorder without a hard drive when for the same (or lower) price you can purchase an RCA DVD recorder with an 80 Gig HD (#DRC8030N)?

Worth a try as far as I'm concerned.......2007-04-19

Although it seems to be pretty well panned by most of the other reviewers of this unit, we just bought two of them last week (2 TV rooms and all). They were the last two units on the shelf and $150.00 each, and so far they've been great! The TIVO'esk pause, and replay live TV buffer of the hard drive is really the best feature for us. We've recorded several TV shows via the timers and that's worked fine also. I can only think that the units bought in '05 and mid '06 had "issues". Nice looking unit, ours are all black and not like the photo in the sales add here. Easy to use on screen menu, and the varibles of the recording modes are good too. Only problem that has sometimes happened (on both our units) is sometimes after using the time delay the picture will still stay a few seconds delayed. If that happens we now know to go to "menu" and back to "watch live TV" to fix it. Just pressing the "live TV" button on remote doesn't fix it. Can't 'skip' commercials, but you can fast to really fast forward through them. As with so many things you buy now a days, the manual isn't an awful lot of help past the ultra basics of operation and setup. Comparing the different brands that are similar to this one for the price this is we feel a really good value if you're looking for this type of replacement unit. We had a DVD recorder poop out on us and so when we went shopping for a replacement and saw this unit at the store and at that price we said why not! And bought two of them!

I Found No problems so Far.......2006-08-19

I have had this Recorder for over a year....I did find that it will not record to the 1x 16x disks, but only the 8X..Since I have had this, I have recorded plenty with about 2 coasters...So If you can't record, Please make sure that you disks are 8x....I just love this....I have had a few freezes on watching rentals, but dvd's do skip when other people rent and don't take care of them...All prerecorded bought new have played perfectly....So, no problems so far!!!

RCA - so bad, they're literally criminal.......2006-03-21

I believe RCA customers should seriously consider filing a fraud complaint, and/or class action lawsuit.

Like other consumers here, I followed the manual to the letter. This unit did not burn one CD successfully, but ruined 10 blank discs and I lost media I thought had been successfully burned, before I gave up. This unit is so bad, 4 out of the 5 designated RCA service centers in my area refused to service it, or said "exchange only", though exchange and refund are not covered by the warrantee.

The one place that did agree to "fix" the machine sent it to an RCA tech. When I picked it up post-repair and tested it at home, the machine froze, requiring a hard reset, within 2 minutes of powering up. Again never successfully burned a DVD, though would indicate the materials were in the "library" and something had recorded onto the disc. The repair shop concurred it was a lemon.

RCA finally agreed to replace the unit, and did so with their new DRC8060N model. The new model was just as bad as the 8040, right out of the box. (See my review under that unit).

Though it is less than 1 year from my initial purchase, RCA/Thompson refuses refund and requires another round with the designated repair place. Even the repair tech said to stay far away from RCA DVD burners (as well as the Toshibas), and pay extra to go with Panasonic or Sony instead if you want a technology which is actually ready for market.

The RCAs should not even be on the shelves, and the behavior of the RCA customer service people at the management/supervisor level indicates they know it-- their purpose is to wear out or wait out the consumer until the warrantee runs out. It is fraud.

STAY AWAY FROM ALL RCA, GE and PROSCAN products.......2005-12-06

The rating system here won't let us go zero stars. Too bad. This deserves negative stars, actually. The only thing worse than this unit is the customer service from RCA. I bought two of these units from a Warehouse-Type Club, one unit for the upstairs and one for down. The downstairs one skipped chapters, refused to play brand new DVD's or simply locked up tight. This went on for months. The unit is total ca-ca doo-doo. Don't even think about buying one. Then comes the RCA Customer Service Shuffle. RCA, GE and Proscan are all owned by Thomson Electronics which is no more than Thomson Pharmaceuticals, a French drug company that bought those three companies. Thomson seems to know exactly nothing about electronics and less about customer service. I hand-carried the defective unit to a local Authorized Service Center. The runaround began. A part was bad. The part was ordered. The wrong part arrived. Part ordered again. Part arrives broken. Part ordered again. No parts available anywhere in the country for a 5 month old unit. They say they'll send a new unit. More than a month later new one arrives at service center. Outside box is in perfect shape. Inside box is smashed. Unit is tested and found to be non-functional. They put a smashed-up box in a good box and shipped an already broken unit. I haven't yet mentioned that the whole time this was going on I logged literally hundreds and hundreds of long distance calls to them because they have no 800 number. After two and one half months had gone by altogether since I'd dropped it off, another new unit finally arrived. I took it, unopened, as well as the other one I'd bought back to where I'd bought them and they gave me my money back. I went to Best Buy and bought two Panasonic DVD recorders for 10 bucks less apiece. They've been working flawlessly ever since. NEVER buy ANYTHING from RCA, GE or Proscan! NEVER!! Unless you enjoy banging your head against a brick customer service wall for more than two and a half months.

Remanufactured RCA DRC-8040N DVD Recorder

Average customer rating:

Not what I expected
No Quality
RCA DRC 80 40N DVD Recorder
THIS IS A JUNK!!!

Remanufactured RCA DRC-8040N DVD Recorder

Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Single-disc progressive scan DVD recorder with support for DVD+R/RW recording formats
Plays DVD, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD, and MP3-CD discs
SmartRecord function adjusts recording mode based on available disc space; selectable aspect ratio
Disc Library with 400-title database; measures 14.2 x 2.7 x 10.6 inches (W x H x D)
Remanufactured to like-new condition; 30-day manufacturer's warranty

ASIN: B000FDZVPG

Customer Reviews:

Not what I expected.......2007-01-05

This player was very difficult to understand. It isn't for someone who wouldn't be able to set the time on a VCR. I returned it.

No Quality.......2007-01-04

Unit didn't work from day one out of the box. Unit froze in "hello" mode.
Complete resets didn't fix the problem.
On a positive note, Amazon made it right with a full refund.

RCA DRC 80 40N DVD Recorder.......2007-01-04

I spent considerable time installing this unit in my system..After several frustrating hours..trying to unlock the disc slot I discovered that the unit would not open.. Sent the unit back using the very efficient return system prpovidedby Amazon. Did NOT replace the unit

THIS IS A JUNK!!!.......2006-12-22

I don't know if I only got a really bad apple, but this one is a JUNK!!! Amazon rips me off with this crap big time!! 30-day warranty is not enough for refurbished products for electronics. Sure, this junk operates OK during the 1st couple of weeks although showing some signs of hidden defects. But after the 30 day warranty lapsed, everything went berserk. I won't be surprised it this junk will explode one of this days!!! You wont buy this product even for a penny!!

RCA DRC8040N - DVD Recorder DVD+RW/+R - Progressive Scan

Average customer rating:

RCA DRC8040N - DVD Recorder DVD+RW/+R - Progressive Scan

Manufacturer: rca
ProductGroup: CE

Progressive Scan
?Record from TV, camcorder or other video device using DVD+R/RW discs
Disc library stores a database of titles that the user hProduct Condition:New

ASIN: B000OIMURO

Product Description

Record from TV, camcorder or other video device using DVD+R/RW discs Specifications: Record from TV, camcorder or other video device using DVD+R/RW discs Specifications:

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