Howard's Theater DVD, VCR, LP and CD Players.

Time to play some media. I own DVDs, CDs, VHS tapes, LPs, and cassette tapes. DVDs and CDs take the top spot. My poor VCR is more or less neglected these days unless I'm looking for something I taped myself in an earlier life. The cassette tape has not been used in quite some time. It is such an inferior product given that I now have the technology to create my own bit perfect copies of CDs. My wife owns a solid collection of LPs and I gave her a new turntable for Christmas.

I own a Pioneer Electronics DV-47A universal player. This little guy plays CDs, CD-R, DVDs, DVD-R, SACD, and DVD-Audio. You can't beat it for the price. It has progressive output but does have the Chroma bug. I own a few SACDs and DVD-Audio discs. So far its kind of a mixed bag as to the performance. I still like this player and it will make a great downstairs player later on. My old Toshiba is currently the downstairs player.
Pioneer DV-47A DVD player.
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I found a Pioneer 301 CD player on sale about 2 years ago. I thought it would be great to have all of my CD loaded and ready to go. The price was very cheap so its hard to complain but this box is really not for me. No keyboard entry for titles. I'm now thinking that I'm much better off with a very high quality built single CD transport. The only good product I've seen to dealing with hundreds of discs is Escient's TuneBase products.
Pioneer PD-F1007 300 CD changer.
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If you are going to own a VCR, you might as well make it a SVHS capable machine. JVC of course makes the best SVHS boxes on the market today. I have the HR-7500U model. Given the popular movies being released on DVD these days, my VCR sees little action.
JVC HR-S7500U SVHS VCR.
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I have a very old cassette tape player made by Teac. Does anyone even mess around with tape these days? I need to digitize my old tapes so they will last longer as CDs.
Teac W-860r Cassette Deck.
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Last but not least is the turntable I purchased for my wife's collection of LPs. This is not by any stretch of the imagination a top of the line player. LPs are self destructive so there isn't much playing time. No sense in sinking 30 thousand dollars into a player.
Technics turntable.
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I think my wife has an old 8 track player laying around somewhere but why bother. Blah to minidisk, DCC, and other failed formats. Also note even though I have a PC connected to the system, I hate MP3s. There is no place for them. Check out the DVD-Audio/SACD player at the top for more info on the new audio formats.


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Last updated: Sat Nov 16 10:20:46 CST 2002