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 hour and an amazing 10 hours of content on each single-sided 4.7 GB recordable DVD. 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.

The DVR90VE's versatile playback features include progressive-scan video outputs and support of MP3 CDs so you can easily shift your digital music enjoyment from the den to the living room. A variety of video and audio inputs--including front-panel composite- and S-video connections for fast, temporary hookups--grant connection to virtually all televisions and home theater components.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVR90VE's DVD player stands ready to deliver the full playback potential of your 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, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

What's in the Box
DVD dual recorder, a remote control, remote batteries, audio/video cables, and a user's manual.

Customer Reviews Average rating - 3.0

Rating - 1 Date: 2008-05-20
Content: I was able to make 20 or so dvds from this machine, none of which will play in any other dvd players, despite my completion of the "finalizing" process.

Also, although I'd already made 5 or so dvds out of a 25-pack, it is suddenly giving me an error message. These dvds are all the same, if they worked before, why not now? I'm reluctant to waste more money purchasing different dvds to try after reading these reviews, it seems as though the recorder may have simply stopped working.

Total piece of crap. Don't waste your money.
Summary: Don't waste your money

Rating - 3 Date: 2008-04-13
Content: Have had the recorder for three years. Use it infrequently. Have to reread the manual carefully each time I want to use it. Have made extensive notes in the manual that are a MUST, things I learned through trial and error. This item is not easy to use but does everything it says it will do if you follow the directions.
Last time I found I had run out of 4X DVD-R blanks, could not find them anywhere fast or at a reasonable cost. Read the reviews here and saw the firmware upgrade to 8X. Called and found out in April 2008 they are charging $17 plus $6 shipping, NOT FREE as stated in many earlier reviews.
Summary: Firmware Upgrade cost $$$$$$$$

Rating - 1 Date: 2007-11-26
Content: Dont even bother. Purchase something that actually records with DVD's that are available. Big thumbs down.
Summary: Junk

Rating - 4 Date: 2007-01-12
Content: Bought this for my mother-in-law to convert those old VHS classics to DVD for longer shelf life. Once you read the instructions, it is fairly simple to use. Quality of the DVD is based on the quality of the VHS. We are going to buy another in the future for our own home.
Summary: Turn vhs to dvd

Rating - 2 Date: 2006-12-24
Content: I've had this dvd/vcr combo for two years. It has been a great dvd player and vhs player and recorder.

The problem is the dvd recorder doesn't last long.

I have older vcr's and dvd players that still work fine. But this dvd recorder stopped working. I tried early on to give disks it could burm without trouble: TDK, Memorex, Verbatim. Some other brands would not work.

Then a couple months ago, every disk I tried would not be recognized by the DVDR90VE. No dvd writing at all, just the dreaded E25 error. Every disk was "bad."

I took the machine to a local electronics repair shop. They've fixed things for me before; they're pretty good. They said it couldn't be fixed and called it cheap.

Though I've owned this machine a long time, I've made perhaps 20 dvds with it. So it was not a good purchase as a dvd recorder.

Look for a better brand. I have an LG I like now. (Not a combo unit, it handles just dvds.) After I burn 25 or 50 disks, I'll let you know how it holds up.

Maybe dvd recorders are temperamental devices and after a while, they stop working. Nevertheless, I would be wary of this brand.
Summary: 3/4 of a good machine