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I TRIED to use/enjoy two of these to no avail.The first failed after four years via main IC board failure,the second after 18 months,same thing.Pioneer was absolutely no help.Now Pioneer has discontinued this product.Over one thousand bucks bucks down the drain.Fool me once,shame on you.Fool me twice,say goodbye to all my future business Pioneer.
This model does it all Have not had any trouble with it at all
I've owned this machine for about a year now and have had no problems with it. Pioneer doesn't list this in its specifications, but the unit does play DVD-Rs and even dual layer DVD+Rs. You'll read a lot of comments about the limited title entry space, which is true, but I keep may DVD library information on my computer so this is only a slight inconvenience to me. I've read one review where the author ruled this unit out because it would not play DVD-Rs he recorded. I've got over 200 of these on my player and it's never balked at playing any of them. It might be worth the wait for HDMI output and 1080p upconversion in the next version, but I don't know if/when this will happen and in the meantime my DVDs look great using component output on my HDTV.
Only 12 characters can be entered for each disk title. I've owned the Pioneer DV-F727 for at least 6 years and have been VERY pleased. It had the new (well, new then) logo rotating into view around the Earth. To be balanced, there is a small gripe. Oh, and the remote isn't backlit.The very minor gripes certainly don't amount to more than a small fraction of a star rating. With a component video hookup it looked so good it almost passed for 3-D.
It helps that there's also an artist field. I still remember the first Universal movie we fired up. I suppose it's limited by what can fit on the front display. It still looks as good today.Frankly, I'm surprised to see this model still for sale considering how quickly most electronics come and go. I suppose that says something about it, too. It doesn't display on the front but does appear on screen when display is pressed on the remote.
Therefore, I still rate it as a solid 5 stars.
We've had one of these units for several years to hold our CD/DVD collection. We just added a second slave unit to increase the capacity from 301 to 601. The two units work flawlessly as one with decent performance.
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