Pioneer has been a leader in DVD recorder technology for years, building both DVD computer drives and component recorders like the slim, sleek DVR-310. Everything you'd normally record with your VCR can now be recorded with the DVR-310 it has a built-in TV tuner, clock/timer, and VCR Plus+. And DVD recordings look and sound so much better! For time-shifting your favorite weekly shows, a rewriteable DVD-RW disc lets you erase and re-record the same disc over and over. For material you want to hang onto, record to write-once DVD-R discs, which can't be erased, and which play in nearly all DVD players. Camcorder owners will love the ability to make pristine DVD copies of videos for easy playback, and for sharing with friends and family. The DVR-310's front-panel i.LINK¨ jack makes transferring video from a digital camcorder fast and easy. Start archiving your precious home movies on DVDs and stop worrying about tape failure! The DVR-310 provides other advanced recording and playback options that just aren't possible with a VCR. For example, "Chase Play" time shift playback employs a memory buffer to let you watch the beginning of a recorded program while the show is finishing recording! In fact, you're not limited to watching the recording in progress you can watch anything else already on the DVD. (Chase Play has a 15-minute limit.) The DVR-310 plays DVD movies on virtually any TV, and if you have an HD-compatible TV, you can take advantage of this player's beautifully filmlike progressive-scan mode. You can also play a wide variety of music discs in fact, the DVR-310 is our first recorder to be able to play both MP3 and WMA files burned on a CD-R or CD-RW.
1 Worked right out of the box!
It is extremely rare that I get a high-tech product that works out of the box like the Pioneer 310 did for me. I hooked it up to my home theater in a matter of minutes, began dubbing home videos from my collection to a DVD-R, reading the manual as I went. After copying 12 videos for a total of 90 minutes, I entered the editing process where I was able to grab snapshots for the menu and apply titles to each item. I told the player to finalize the DVD, and VOILA! My first DVD burned successfully.
2 Outstanding and outstanding value...
I bought this unit as an open-box special at the local big-box store, but I'd pay full price for it. After having read lots of DVD-recorder reviews, I was a bit scared that I might not be able to get a unit that would record reliably, be easy to use, or be of high quality.
This recorder is not unattractive. It was easy to cable up. The front panel offer easy to use controls and the on-screen menus are fantastically easy to use. I recorded my first DVD within an hour of getting it home and it played beautifully on my Sony DVD player. Since then I've been downloading all my long-term saved TiVo recordings and have not had a bad recording episode--not one. So I strongly recommend this recorder.
