Apex DRX9000 Progressive-Scan DVD Player/RecorderApex DRX9000 Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder
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- DVD+R/DVD+RW player recorder with 181-channel NTSC tuner for off-air DVD recording
- Progressive-scan video outputs for viewing DVDs on HD and HD-ready televisions
- JPEG and Kodak Picture CD playback, MP3 and WMA playback
- Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel digital output (for immersive surround sound when used with a compatible AV receiver)
- Includes Apex Full-screen Function for viewing widescreen movies in full-screen on 4:3 TVs
The DRX-9000 also happens to be a first-rate DVD player, offering high-end progressive-scan video outputs (viewable on high-definition and HD-ready TVs), JPEG image and Kodak Picture CD playback (watch a slideshow right on your TV!), and full compatibility with home-burned MP3 and WMA (Windows Media Audio) CDs. Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DRX-9000 stands ready to deliver the full potential of DVDs. 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, providing higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts. In any case, standard composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television, and Apex's active full screen function (AFF) helps resize widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) video images to fill 4:3 aspect-ratio sets.
For sound, a set of left/right analog-audio outputs channels audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each optical and coaxial) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver.
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- Publisher: APEX
- Label: APEX
- Studio: APEX
- Sales Rank in Electronics: #336041
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:  Apex DRX9000 DVD Recorder, By Arthur Collins (Dothan, al United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Apex DRX9000 Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder (Electronics) For the features and price the DRX9000 DVD recorder is a very good buy. It has a great picture plus digital sound. It is even better when used with HD progressive scan TV. Audio CD's sound great played on this unit too.I have not had any problems recording or playing back the DVD+R or +RW disc. Also, the recorded disc play just fine in my computer DVD drive. There is one thing I would like to say to potentail buyers, or someone who has just purchased a new DRX9000. There is a hookup flyer that comes in the box with the DRX9000, that states, Do not connect this DVD recorder to a VCR or TV/VCR combination, it will cause picture distortion. APEX has addressed this problem with a firmware update. You can download this file off their web site and burn your own disc, or contact them by telephone and they will send you a disc with the new firmware update on it. This update takes about 20 to 30 seconds to do, and it works. Anybody thinking about purchasing a new DVD recorder...Read more 16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:  A computer in a set-top case, By A Customer This review is from: Apex DRX9000 Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder (Electronics) This machine is good for the money, but don't expect it to be fantastic. DVD set-top technology is still immature and this machine is initially quite confusing to use. I had the Philips/Magnavox DVD+RW unit prior to this and it was much more intuitive, just more ugly (and it died totally after 2 weeks, which is why I exchanged it for the Apex). The Apex has worked fine for a month now, and overall I'm pleased with it.So what is it? I opened it up (I don't care about the warranty sticker) to find it's a basic computer NEC ND1100A DVD+RW drive exactly as you'd get in your PC, complete with IDE connector and standard power plug. The rest of the circuitry is LSI and effectively an embedded PC/Display unit. This is why it takes fifteen seconds to "boot" when you power it on. It also has one really nasty feature that you don't know about till you get it home - a huge noisy fan on the back which makes it sound like having your PC on all the time. I plan to fit a quieter...Read more 15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:  GOOD for ANT Recording, REALLY BAD for VHS conversion, By This review is from: Apex DRX9000 Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder (Electronics) I bought this unit...with hopes of having a faster way of converting home movies to DVD faster than it would take using a computer capture card and program and waiting for it to render the entire DVD movie. The manual was confusing to figure out how to setup the player/recorder and once I got my vcr to send a signal to the DVD recorder it ended up looking like a cable box signal when it's scrambled. The picture quality wasn't quite as bad as that but it certainly jumped around and flickered in and out. Definitely not something people wanna watch. The picture input was not stable at all coming from a vcr and I do not mean copyrighted materials, but personal home movies. However its ability to take antenna signals and save them to DVD was great. I had no quams about that part. The user-interface was quite confusing. One thing I did NOT like about recording to DVD on this machine was that there is no way of telling the recorder to start a new dvd chapter as you're...Read more |
