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Marantz Embraces D-Theater HDTV D-VHS Format

Started by Gregg Lengling, Tuesday Feb 25, 2003, 02:16:38 PM

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Gregg Lengling

By Greg Tarr
TWICE
2/24/2003
 
   ITASCA, ILL.— Marantz recently became the first manufacturing partner to join JVC's D-VHS D-Theater camp by unveiling an S-VHS/D-VHS VCR — model MV8300.

The multiformat deck, which made its debut at 2003 CES, is scheduled to ship in the first quarter at a $1,599 suggested retail price.

It will record HD and SD digital broadcasts in digital bit stream form onto D-VHS cassettes and convert those signals to analog form for display on digital television sets and monitors. It also records and plays back analog signals in S-VHS and VHS formats.

Like JVC's D-VHS deck, the Marantz MV8300 receives digital signals through an IEEE-1394 interface connection.

Because the deck incorporates JVC's D-Theater decryption circuitry for content protected high-def packaged media, it will playback HDTV movies in the growing library of pre-recorded D-VHS D-Theater cassettes.

Digital recordings can be made either in bit-for-bit accurate form or compressed into one of several modes to fit more content on a tape.

For those who want to dub home videos into digital form on D-VHS cassettes, the deck adds a Frame Synchronizer features that produces the best possible picture quality from the source material.

In addition to the IEEE-1394 DTV input, the deck adds two IEEE-1394 camcorder inputs for DV format signals, in addition to two sets of A/V inputs with S-Video connections, and component video output for connection to most HDTV sets and monitors. An optical digital audio output with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio and 2-channel PCM digital audio capability is also supplied.

Programmed recording is facilitated by the addition of the VCR+Plus system. It also includes a video navigation function that encodes tapes by category, recording date and an ID number, which simplifies the process of locating and organizing favorite tapes.
Gregg R. Lengling, W9DHI
Living the life with a 65" Aquos
glengling at milwaukeehdtv dot org  {fart}