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Pioneer DVR-533H-S Slim Design DVD Recorder with 80 GB Hard Disk Drive
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Pioneer
EAN: 0012562744513
Item Dimensions: 158262915001300
Label: Pioneer
Manufacturer: Pioneer
Model: DVR533HS
MPN: DVR533HS
Publisher: Pioneer
Studio: Pioneer
Features:- DVD player and recorder with 80 GB hard drive; measures 16.55 x 2.4 x 10.75 inches
- Records to DVD-R/RW discs; compatible with CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD, MP3, WMA, JPEG
- Built-in TV tuner, 8-day TV Guide On Screen interactive program guide
- 2 composite in/out, 2 S-Video in/out, 1 RF in/out, 1 component out, 1 Firewire in
- Dolby Digital and DTS output
Editorial Review:
Hard Drive Records Up To 170 Hours, 10 Hours On DVD / DVD-R (Single Layer/Single-Sided, Dual Layer/Single-Sided), DVD-RW, DVD Video, CD, CDR CDRW MP3 WMA
Record your library of home movies and your favorite television programs to disc quickly and easily with the Pioneer DVR-533H-S DVD recorder. The built-in 80 GB hard drive lets you record lots of home movies and TV shows for temporary storage, and it can hold up to 170 hours of content (recorded at lowest video quality--SEP Mode). Once recorded, you can watch them whenever you want, edit them, delete them, or burn them to DVD. The DVR-533H-S burns to DVD-R/RW discs, and is compatible with playback of CD-R/RW, VCD, and SVCD disc formats as well as JPEG, WMA, and MP3 digital file formats.
The DVR-533H-S includes a built-in TV tuner and the free and easy-to-use 8-day TV Guide On Screen interactive program guide--just find your favorite programs and select them for recording. The Chase Play function lets you watch, stop, or pause a show being recorded to the hard drive--even while you're recording it. It also includes a commercial skip feature that lets you jump ahead 30 seconds at a time.
The i.LINK (also known as Firewire or IEEE 1394) interface allows you to transfer your DV (Digital Video) home movies from your digital video camcorder smoothly to the hard drive. If your movies were shot in analog format, inputs for composite video/S-video and Left-Right audio are provided for dubbing them directly to DVD. With Disc Backup, you can make a direct file transfer of your home-movie DVD back to the hard drive, and from that make as many copies of your home movie as you want, all at blazing speed.
The Smart VBR (Variable Bit Recording) recording functionality lets you choose the quality level/recording time that best suits you. Choose from Fine, SP, LP, EP, and Auto; Auto automatically sets the optimal recording quality for the time remaining on the hard drive.
This DVD player's PureCinema 2:3 Progressive Scan gives you a more film-like presentation when watching movies. The 54MHz/10-bit video DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) delivers beautiful video quality. Other features include Dolby Digital and DTS Digital surround sound outputs and a high-end 24-bit/192kHz audio DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) for superb musical performance. It offers the following connection options: - Composite AV In: 2
- Composite AV Out: 2
- S-Video In: 2
- S-Video Out: 2
- Component video Out: 1
- RF In: 1
- RF Out: 1
- Digital optical audio: 1
What's in the Box
DVD recorder, remote control, DVD-RW disc, printed operating instructions
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - R.Thomas
This is my 5th DVR (all Pioneer) and the first with TV Guide. I would NOT buy this unit again!
ISSUES:
1. The automatic TV Guide feature causes my unit to be on about 18 hours a day. I can hear it thrashing the hard disk constantly. Why does it take so long to get programming???
2. It is very difficult to find the manual timed programming mode, or to make changes to the TV Guide programming. The menu's are hard to use for this feature (which is mostly the way ... Read More
Rating:  - Some good, some bad...
I got this for a gift at Christmas. It's a very good DVR, but I have never had one before, so I have nothing to compare it to. The menus are *fairly* easy to navigate, but can be confusing at times. The quality of recordings is very good, although the one time that I've pushed a HDD recording to a DVD-RW, the volume was very low; so low that you needed to almost max your speakers to hear what was playing. The remote control is very well laid out.
Onto the big problems:
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Rating: - flawed but good enough for my aims
Clock constantly resets itself but does not seem to do so when a recording is programmed. I manually reset it through initial setup. Following a recommendation by another amazon reviewer, I entered a canadian zip code in the set up procedure to avoid all the downloading problems amply covered in other amazon customer reviews of this product. It works. Otherwise no problems. It has revolutionized the way I watch t.v.
Rating: - Which is better? I own both the Panasonic DMR-EH50S and Pioneer DVR-533H-S
Using to record TV shows - I have not recorded any shows.
I don't know why anyone would want to use either of these to record TV shows, when Tivo and other DVRs have been around for the last few years. I have a Dish 942 high definition DVR now, but I have also owned Direct TV Tivo, and Comcast DVR for about 2 years. The Comcast DVR is the best DVR that I have used.
Pioneer DVR-533H-S is better for my needs
I use it for making DVDs of home videos of the last 20 ... Read More
Rating: - Five Star rating if the TV Guide function was reliable!
First the good news: Recording, editing, copying is great. Sound and Vision mag gave the Pioneer DVR-633H (identical to the DVR-533H except 160GB drive) their nod for the best overall hard-drive DVR last year. They said Pioneer editing function is the best short of a computer. I agree, as I love the ease and accuracy of edits.
Now the bad news: As others have pointed out, the TV Guide function is the real Achilles heel on this dvr. The same system is used on ... Read More
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