Our review:Item Description:The DVR90DEA DVD unit not only plays DVD's and CD's but also offers features for you to record to DVD discs and edit them after that.
Amazon.com Item Description:Enjoy the best of both worlds with crisp, vivid movie playback and recording capability with the Sylvania DVR90DEA DVD recorder/player. The recorder's built-in NTSC TV tuner and onscreen user interface permits up to eight timer recordings over a one-year period, with its six DVD recording speeds providing between one and 10 hours of content on a single-sided 4.7 GB recordable DVD (DVD-R/RW discs only). You can even select and compile the best footage to commit to disc: the recorder's handy editing features include auto playlist creation, project titling, title deletion and editing, and scene deletion.
In addition to DVD movie and CD audio playback capabilities, the ZRY-316 is also compatible with playing content from CD-R/RW and DVD-R/RW discs as well as CDs burned with MP3 digital audio files. Content compatibility includes MP3 and WMA digital audio and JPEG digital photos, as well as the ability to view photo slide shows with background music from disc.
You can easily set a recording time as you prefer. Every time the REC button pressed during recording, the recording time will be increased by 30 minutes up to 4 hours. The recording automatically stops when the recording time you set is reached. You can confirm the picture quality for recording in the current recording speed which you set. If you want to change the recording speed, press REC SPEED button to set the desired recording mode.
It offers the following connection options:
- Composite AV (RCA): 2 in, 1 out (1 front)
- S-Video: 2 in, 1 out (1 front)
- Component video (480i/480p): 1 out
- RF: 1 in, 1 out
- Analog audio (RCA, L/R): 1 out
- Coaxial digital audio: 1 out
What's in the Box DVD player/recorder, remote control (with batteries), composite AV cable, RF cable, printed operating instructions
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Buyer Testimonials
Average Buyer's Review:
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DVD-RW discs - 20 questions and still got no answer!
Have fun trying to get the answer from the vendor, Amazon.com, Funai or Sylvania on which DVD-RW discs to use with this unit! (But as a "PSA", I'll give you the answer below!)
I received item in timely fashion, however trying figure out what brand and speed DVD-RW discs to use has been quite an adventure and costly since I had to order and try different brands and speeds to see what worked and what didn't work!
I emailed the vendor, Amazon.com, Funai (parent company) and Sylvania to try to find the necessary information on DVD-RW discs to use with this unit!
Well, I never did get a definitive answer from the NUMEROUS emails exchanged.
The only specific answer from one of the Sylvania techs was to stick with Verbatim "since they work the best" in our units. (Which is not true for my unit. See below...)
So, what is the answer as to which DVD-RW discs to use?
Here are the DVD-RW discs that I purchased that I got to work: Verbatim 2X, JVC 2X, and JVC 4x!
Here are the DVD-RW discs that I purchased that did NOT work: MAXELL 2X, Verbatim 4X, Verbatim 6X and Imation 4X.
The unit arrived with an Imation DVD-R 8X disc and that worked great. (Silly me for thinking an Imation 4X DVD-RW would work. It didn't)
As far as DVD-R discs, I also had success with MAXELL 16X and HP 16X discs.
OK, now that I got the unit to function, how do I rate the unit itself? I give it a strong 4 and perhaps a 5!
Now keep in mind, I primarily bought this unit to function as a VCR -- that is, to record, erase, and re-record again TV shows! (Thus my desire to use the -RW discs...)
Even at the slowest recording SEP speed of 10 hours, the picture and audio are pretty clear. However, if I were recording things to keep, I'd probably would go no lower than the EP speed of 6 hours.
All things seem to work great, but there are 2 things that irk me when comparing it to my other DVR!
1) The unit does not give you the remaining time or total time of each recorded segment. (You are shown the total remaining time of the entire disc, though.)
2) You can't split a recorded segment into 2 or more segments. (Or at least I haven't figured out how to do it!)
Also, you can't ERASE an entire disc per se. You can however FORMAT the disc which will, in effect, also erase the disc.
But, overall, now that I can record on -RW discs, I am very pleased with this unit!
Buyer's review: 
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Gread DVD recorder
This DVD Recorder worked great right out of the box with 16x DVD-Rs and 16x DVD-RWs. Good quality video usually gets 4 hours to a disc. I cycle 3 DVD RWs and can record shows and TV movies for watching later. TV tuner is great.
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This is a great vcr replacement at a fantastic price. 3 stars!
Records to all brands (and speeds) of blank dvd-r or dvd-rw discs that I have tried so far. Playback picture quality is good when recorded at 2 or 4 hour speeds. This machine doesn't have a dv input for best recording from a mini-dv camcorder but the camera can be connected using the other inputs and then edited (delete scenes, make titles) in VR mode. But, if I needed to edit and copy home movies, I would just do that on the computer. I use this machine as a vcr replacement to record from the built-in tv tuner. It handles this job just fine.
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love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wonderful dvd recorder dvd-r's only so cheaper then dvd+r's which is wonderful- works like a champ so far so good... ONLY PROBLEM WAS HOOKING IT UP - sylvania said to hook up both the coaxial cable and the component cables (red yellow and white) told them it was stupid to hook up both - and useless - she said buy a rf modulator - so just buy 1 to start with if ur tv doesnt accept component hook up's
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DVD's skipping!
Maybe it's too early to tell. I recorded some Hi-8 camcorder tapes onto DVD's just fine with this product, but have yet to figure out how to convert them on the computer to a format with which I can edit the video into clips with my computer's video editing software. The problem is, after about a month of use as a DVD player, some of my kids' DVD's are all garbled and un-playable! They work fine on our other DVD players and the problem doesn't happen with all our movies, just some of them. It's frustrating. I'm going to try to get a head cleaner, but I am afraid this is a problem with the DVD player since it is brand new and should not have to be cleaned. I have another DVD player that is probably five years old, never had a head cleaning, and works like a charm. So, I give this one three stars.