RCA RP5007 Digital Voice Recorder

RCA RP5007 Digital Voice Recorder

Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description
The RCA RP5007 digital voice recorder combines voice-activated convenience with a capacity of 96 minutes. A removable 4 MB SmartMedia memory card comes with the recorder. This model also features a date/time stamp and backlit LCD screen. You can program the recorder for conference conditions, when the sound source is at a distance, or for dictation mode, when the sound source is nearby.

Record with the built-in microphone or with an external microphone and listen back through the built-in speaker or optional earphones. Controls include play, stop, search, record, pause, and erase. You can also search forward and backward for important messages. This recorder runs on two AAA batteries, which are included. It has a one-year warranty.

Product Description:
Better yet record it! The RCA Digital Voice Recorder helps you keep track of all the little as well as big things when you are on the go. With 96 minutes of digital recording time, 4MB removable Smart Media card, and voice-activated recording, this recorder is as easy to use as it is powerful in helping you stay organized on the job and at home. So whether you want record your brilliant ideas for the big meeting or just remember to pick up milk on your way home, it can help.

RCA RP5007 Digital Voice Recorder
Average customer rating:

Good Quality, Weak Memory

Falls Short

Maddening design flaw

Problems or bugs

Good replacement for mini-cassette -- for most people

RCA RP5007 Digital Voice Recorder

Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Compact digital voice recorder with voice activation

Up to 96 minutes of recording time--18 minutes on highest setting

Date/time stamp

Select between conference and dictation recording modes

Comes with 4 MB SmartMedia memory card

ASIN: B000050G9U

Product Description

Better yet record it! The RCA Digital Voice Recorder helps you keep track of all the little as well as big things when you are on the go. With 96 minutes of digital recording time, 4MB removable Smart Media card, and voice-activated recording, this recorder is as easy to use as it is powerful in helping you stay organized on the job and at home. So whether you want record your brilliant ideas for the big meeting or just remember to pick up milk on your way home, it can help.

Amazon.com Product Description

The RCA RP5007 digital voice recorder combines voice-activated convenience with a capacity of 96 minutes. A removable 4 MB SmartMedia memory card comes with the recorder. This model also features a date/time stamp and backlit LCD screen. You can program the recorder for conference conditions, when the sound source is at a distance, or for dictation mode, when the sound source is nearby.

Customer Reviews:

Good Quality, Weak Memory.......2002-08-18

I bought this player on clearance at a local... store, hoping to use it for notetaking in school. The Recorder works fine for this purpose, but with marginal audio quality, as it must be used in the low quality setting to record any more than 18 minutes. There is no built-in memory on this recorder, all memory is through SmartMedia cards, which would not be a problem if they could be over 8 MB. (This recorder will not accept any SmartMedia Cards over 8 MB), and comes with a 4 MB. 8 MB and below cannot be found anywhere that I have seen, and the recorder formats the cards for storage in such a way that they cannot be read by Card Readers and transferred to a PC. Therefore, this player is only good for someone looking to record once, listen, and delete. Nothing else can be done with the recorder that I have seen.

Falls Short.......2002-06-17

I found this recorder on clearance. I had been looking for a recorder I could take on long bike trips to listen to music. Unfortunately I didn't want to spend [money] on a Sony minidisc player so when I saw a digital VOICE recorder for [money] I thought I would take a chance on its ability to record/play music. So far I find the only acceptable level of quality for music is HQ recording. Unfortunately that only gives 16 min. of music on the 4MB card that comes with the recorder. I have tried to find an optional 8MB card at [local stores], but they don't carry the 8MB smartmedia card. Also I haven't figured out if the unit can be plugged directly into a stereo for direct recording. I hoped a direct hookup would get ride of the noise when recording on standard play, but I can't find a cord to plug into both units. The standard play records up to 90 minutes, but quality is marginal at least for music.

On the plus side the unit is small, light, and very flexible. I will give it to the wife to record lectures if I can't get more high quality music out of it.

Maddening design flaw.......2002-04-23

All that the positive reviews said is correct, in my experience. The device is reasonably priced and records and plays back reasonably well.

However, mine has an absolutely maddening flaw: the batteries are held in by a small 'door' that hinges from the bottom of the device. The battery door opens at the slightest touch: in fact, if often opens (and the batteries therefore fall out) while in my pocket, without particularly being touched at all. You don't lose your recordings, but you have to re-set all your time and date settings as a result. For me this one flaw almost negates the good features because it makes the device so frustrating to use.

Also, don't assume that the memory cards included or available for this device can be used in a PC-attached card reader: they cannot, since they have a unique proprietary format. So you cannot put these cards into a card reader and import the sound files into your PC.

Problems or bugs.......2001-06-22

It is a great recorder with many revolutionizing functions, but with revolution comes mistakes. It is found that with many of the RCA DVR'S that there seems to be a short in the system and very often it will shut off when trying to use the DVR and makes it very unreliable to when it is actually going to work. So if you have patience then this is the product to use, if you don't then i would recomend a different DVR..

Good replacement for mini-cassette -- for most people.......2001-06-18

The RCA RP5007 is a good little voice recorder, but it has its flaws. I give it four stars because, for certain applications (long dictations in a quiet room, or short interviews and speeches in louder situations), it's very handy indeed, and much better than a mini-cassette recorder.

Its major flaw is the lack of storage for high-quality recordings. The included 4MB SmartMedia card only holds 17 minutes of HQ sound -- so I'd recommend buying at least an additional 8MB card. Unfortunately, that's as big as you can get, since the unit doesn't accept cards bigger than 8MB, or 34 minutes HQ. The SP (low quality) mode lasts a long time (nearly 1hr 40min with the stock 4MB card), but the sound is highly compressed and very hard to understand unless there is no background noise at all.

It is considerably less expensive than other digital voice recorders, so compromises have been made, but they detract little from its good basic features and usability.

Here are the pluses and minuses:

GOOD:

- Small and light

- Reasonably easy to use

- Sound quality quite good in HQ mode

- Every clip is time and date stamped

- Button lock prevents accidental activation

- Both manual and voice-activated record modes

- Dictation (close) or Conference (distant) modes

- Sound clips can be stored in folders

- Sound clips can have annotations appended

- Rudimentary editing (insert/delete segments) possible

- Quick preview mode plays 3 sec of each clip

- Uses standard AAA batteries, and lasts a long time with them

- Standard SmartMedia card storage included (4 MB)

- Standard mini microphone and headphone jacks

BAD:

- Sound quality in SP (low quality) mode barely usable, especially if there is any background noise at all

- 17-minute limit on included 4MB card in HQ mode (1hr 40 mins in SP mode, but as I said, it's barely usable)

- Cannot use SmartMedia cards bigger than 8MB (34 min in HQ mode, 3hr 20 min in SP)

- Record button pauses, but does not stop recording a clip (which requires the separate Stop button) -- can be confusing on the fly

- Deleting clips is confusing at first -- RCA even includes a separate addendum to the manual clarifying how it works -- but once you get the hang of it, it's simple

- Fast-forward and reverse features are choppy and rather slow

- Plastic case seems a bit fragile

- No included AC adapter (but there is a plug for one)

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