Watch your favorite television programming on your own time with the
powerful and easy-to-use Toshiba RD-XS54 DVD recorder with integrated
digital video recorder (DVR) with a massive 250 GB hard drive. You'll
also get amazing video results when playing DVDs, thanks to the
RD-XS54's upconversion from 480p to 720p/1080i formats and its
progressive 3:2 pulldown detection. It also comes with TV Guide On
Screen program guide, which provides access to eight days of programming.
It's easy to find the programs you want to record--just search by
keyword or sort programs by category, then highlight the listing and
simply press the record button. It will also control your cable box (via
IR blasters) for simplified unattended recording. The RD-XS54 records to affordable DVD-R/RW discs as well as DVD-RAM
discs, a very flexible format that enables you to re-record on the disc
up to several thousand times. In addition to playing back those
recordable formats, this DVD player is also compatible with playing DVD
movie, CD audio, CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, VCD, and SVCD, as well as MP3 and
WMA digital audio files.
Recorded content remains easy to find with the help of a menu that will
be automatically created when you record. It displays the date and
channel you recorded, along with a thumbnail of your recording by
capturing the first video frame of the recording. The date and channel
can be change to any 64-character title and the thumbnails to any image
within the recording. Chapters within the recording can also be created
by either predetermined intervals, or by the user selecting specific
points within the recording.
With Toshiba's Network NAVI system, you can connect to your home
network via a LAN 10/100 port (Ethernet), allowing for easy integration
between your home entertainment center and your PC. The NAVI system
enables you to:
- Dub copy-free content from one RD-XS54 to another if
both are connected to the same network - Stream recorded content or even
live programming to a PC - Upload custom Menu backgrounds for creating
DVD-R/RW discs - Edit and add title information to recorded content from a
PC - Remotely schedule recordings via email
- Receive automatic software
upgrades - Use a PC scroll mouse to control the recorder for detailed
video editing
With the HDMI connection, which supports uncompressed
digital video up to HDTV level resolution, the RD-XS54 can up-convert
standard DVD picture resolution to nearly HDTV-quality with output
resolutions of 720p or 1080i. This makes a DVD player with an HDMI
connection the perfect match for today's digital televisions. And
because this conversion is performed in the player, the signal remains
free from excessive digital-to-analog conversion artifacts. The RD-XS54 performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal, too--a handy
feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native
24-frame format. To adapt 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video,
frames in the original movie must be duplicated; 3:2 pulldown digitally
corrects this duplication by removing the redundant information to
display a frame-accurate picture. A 3D Y/C comb filter further enhances
resolution by removing blurred edges between colors and reducing dot
crawl (tiny, moving dots of color along a sharp color separation in a
vertical line, as in a depiction of a character's striped T-shirt).
It offers the following connection options:
- Composite AV (RCA): 3 in
(1 front, 2 rear); 3 out (1 front, 2 rear) - S-Video: 3 in (1 front, 2
rear); 3 out (1 front, 2 rear) - Component video: 1 out (Y/Pr/Pb)
- HDMI: 1
out - RF: 1 in, 1 out
- Analog audio (RCA, L/R): 3 in (1 front, 2 rear); 3
out (1 front, 2 rear) - Firewire: 1 in
- Ethernet: 1
- Digital optical audio
out: 1 - Headphone: 1
Tech Talk
HDMI -- HDMI makes an uncompressed digital RGB connection
from the source to the screen. By eliminating conversion to an analog
signal, it delivers an unblemished image. The non-degraded signal
reduces flicker and leads to a clearer picture. HDMI intelligently
communicates the highest output resolution with the source device. The
HDMI input is fully backward compatible with DVI sources but includes
digital audio. HDMI uses HDCP copy protection.
What's in the Box
DVD player/recorder, remote control (with batteries),
AV cable, printed operating instructions
