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How do I plug in my ps3 into my dvd/vcr player?

I have just got a ps3 component cable today. When I try to plug it in the tv it works fine but when i try to plug it in my sanyo dvw-7100 dvd/vcr with component output in the back it won't play. Can somebody help?

That's because a DVD/VCR is not what you hook a PlayStation 3 into as the PlayStation 3 is it's own DVD player and Blu-Ray player as well, they can't both share the same connection and display picture. You only hook the PlayStation 3 up to a TV or a AV receiver if you have one but the Sanyo player you're talking about isn't one so just hook your PlayStation 3 up to your TV and you're good.

All Region Dvd Player: Play With The Regions

Imagine watching the Niagara falls right in front of your eyes seated on a sofa. The home theater system helps us to watch a variety of movies right inside our homes. An all region DVD player is a smart choice while setting up your own home theater.

A DVD provides enormous space to store data from all walks of life. No wonder it has become the most popular storage device today. A DVD is used to store movies,pictures,data and even books!

However, DVD is prepared in a different format in various parts of the world. In Asian countries the format used is PAL format while the Americans follow the NTSC format. These two different formats cannot be read by the same DVD player.

An All region DVD player provides multitasking and decodes DVD irrespective of the format in which it is created. It is a region free DVD player and provides complete access to the DVD irrespective of the source of origin.

The code free portable DVD player pays no heed to the code or the format from where the DVD has originated. It is a smooth operator and effectively plays the DVD as soon as it is inserted. This ability of super ceding the code and playing the DVD without bothering about the region of its origin makes it a multi region DVD player.

An all region DVD player can also be useful in playing the old video cassettes. The DVD VCR multi system provides an unique opportunity to view DVD from all regions and also view video cassettes.

The all region DVD player has a very sleek design and fits very well in the cabinets. The DVD player cab be attached to wide screens so that life size images can be viewed. This is a very good alternative to watching movies on the computers or mobile as the eyes are not strained.

In the era of outsourcing, it's very difficult to imagine where exactly your DVD is coming from. The world is now a very small place and you might pick up a DVD from any country during your visit. It can be agonizing to come back home and discover that the DVD is not readable.

Thus,an all region DVD player is the most compatible solution which will enable you to literally watch any DVD in the world.

Sam Stores is an on line outlet which offer a wide range of all region DVD player in sleek designs.

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Peter is a well known author who writes on topics related to electronic items like Region Free DVD Player, pal digital camcorders, Voltage Converter.

Vcr Remote Control

How do I program a universal remote control for an Orion VR 213 VCR to turn on the front input jacks?

I am trying to copy saved programs from a DVR to the VCR but have lost the VCR remote control. I have a RCA SystemLink Simple 3 universal remote I am using for nothing else and would like to program it for use with the Orion VR213 VCR.

Any help is sincerely appreciated!!

As Universal Remote Control Inc.'s top-of-the-line hard buttoned remote, the Complete Control MX-950 Aurora includes many high-end features such as USB-based PC programming, a multi-color backlit LCD screen, control of up to 255 devices, unlimited macros, custom graphics and sound, variables and a whole lot more!

From the below link you can get the information which will be really helpful.

http://www.remotecentral.com/features/remotes.htm

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Remotes

Welcome to Remotes4u, we have an extensive range of TV, DVD, Satellite and Sky Digital remote controls and many more. We cover popular manufactures from Phillips to Pioneer and Samsung to Sony Remote Controls. Click the links below for more information on the specific remote you require.
TV remotes.

Long gone are the days of "lazy bones", the original TV Remote control of the 1950s. The need for Remote controls in today's market demands not just a Remote control for TVs but also remotes for your VCRs and DVD's, as well as for more modern things such as Set Top Box's and Camcorders. Yet even with the modern technology of today's TV remote controls things still go wrong and they need replacing. This is where Remotes4u is your savoir. We not only cover Philips Remote and Sony Remote controls for your TVs but also remotes for other products as shown below.
DVD remotes

Mass production of DVD players has meant that they are present in almost everyone's home in Britain and the need for DVD remotes is as vital as Remote controls for TVs. In 1993, Phillips and Sony were the big brands who were pushing forward the development of DVD players. Along with other brands Sony and Philips they are still engineering DVD players and DVD Remote controls. Unsurprisingly, Remotes4u stocks Philips DVD Remotes and Panasonic Remote controls for your DVD's.
Camcorder remotes

Although Camcorder remote controls may not appear to be as popular as TV remotes they are extremely useful as anyone with a camcorder will be aware. The miniature size of the average Camcorder Remote control like those of the Sony Camcorder remote and JVC Remote control means they can be easily misplaced. Though don't despair, Remotes4u does not just cover popular TV Remote controls. At Remotes4u we aim to cover all remotes and Camcorder Remote controls are no different. Remotes4u stocks Sony remotes and JVC remote and other popular Original and Alternative Camcorder Remote controls.
VCR remotes

VCR's do not dominate the market as they did in the 90s, as such it is even harder to find an original or replacement for Philips Remotes and Toshiba VCR remote controls when you need too. We don't believe it should be and if you want to keep your VCR than why not? Remotes4u endeavours to cover VCR remotes as much as it does so for Remote controls for TVs.

To find a specific remote simply go to our above search engine. Firstly select your brand. On the left we have noted which are the most popular Remote control brands such as, Pioneer Remotes, Sony Remotes and Panasonic Remote controls. Secondly, enter in your model number, this is so we can locate specifically which Remote it is that you need.

Finally, note whether or not you want the original or an alternative Remote Control. Original Remote controls are supplied from the original manufacturers like Sky and Sony. Whereas Alternative Remotes, although of the same equality as ones produced by Sony and Sky, with all the functions of the original remote, they are model specific.

Finally, decide how you want to pay for your Remote Control or Controls and Remotes4u will dispatch them to you.

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Optical Digital Audio

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The 50th Anniversary of the Optical Disc

The 50th Anniversary of the Optical Disc.

From the “Laser Disc” to “Blu-ray”

History of the Optical Disc

In 1958, 50 years ago, David Paul Gregg invented the first optical disc using a transparent disc technology. The disc is 30 centimeters in diameter and uses an analog format and laser technology. It is therefore also called a “Laser Disc” He patented his design in 1961.

A later development of the Optical Disc were patented in 1969.

In 1967, David Paul Gregg's company, Gaus Electrophysics, contacted Royal Philips Electronics, but was met with disinterest.

The laser disc player sold only about one million units in the United States and approximately four million in Japan and the last LD released in Japan was the “Tokyo Raiders” in 2001.

Laser Disc Museum gives some interesting history of the Laser Disc. See the link below:

http://laserdiscplanet.com/museum.html

One of the influential contributors to Audio, Video and Data recording, is Kees Immink.

Dr. Kees A. Schouhamer Immink was born on December 18, 1946 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He Joined Philips research laboratories in 1971.

His contribution to the technology of digital audio and video has enabled all of us to listen to audio and watch video on reliable, high quality media. Dr. Immink's coding methods are essential to CD's and DVD's. For a full biography about Kees Immink see the website:

http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/immink.html

The Compact Disc (CD)

The Optical VideoDisc, although a major development to be used in later research, was not a great success. I recently talked to a number of people about the Optical Video disc, but they had never heard of it.

The Sony/Philips team was not idle, and building on some of the laser disc technologies, they set out to develop a new digital audio disc; in contrast to the earlier OpticalDisc, which had an analog format.

In 1979, they set up a task force of engineers led by the prominent Kees Immink and in 1980, the group produced a Compact Disc (CD) Standard, called the Red Book.

Compact Disc format

The CD uses a red laser to scan the patterns of bumps on a mirrored surface which are interpreted as bits. These bits can be assembled into bytes. A CD can hold about 700 megabytes of information or about 80 minutes of music.

The Red Book gives detailed information on the design of the compact disc and was released in 1980 by Philips and Sony.

It was adopted by the Digital Audio Disc Committee and ratified as IEC 908.

The development of the CD was the combined work of a large number of scientists working as a team. The Compact Disc Story, written by Kees A. Schouhamer Immink provides a lot of background information. See the weblink below for the full story.

http://www.exp-math.uni-essen.de/~immink/pdf/cdstory.htm

The CD, available on the market since late 1982, remains the standard playback medium for commercial audio recordings to the present day. Various formats of the CD were later developed. Some of the common formats are:

1. Audio files CD

2. Data storage CD-ROM

3. Write-once audio and data storage CD-R

4. Rewritable media CD-RW

By 2007 200 billion CDs had been sold world wide.

Search for a new way to play video movies and “super density” data storage.

The time was ready for a new way to play Videos and provide a higher capacity disk to store data and programs. Cd's were rapidly replacing the audio tapes and the VHS was coming to an end. Data often had to be stored on multiple discs.

Two teams set to work to produce a video disk to replace the VHS tape; the Philips and Sony team and Toshiba.

Philips and Sony started the Multimedia Compact Disc (MMCD) and Toshiba the Super Density Disc. Notice the emphasis on each of these, “Multi Media” and “Super Density”. Of course both of these had both the video and data capabilities in mind.

Multi Media Compact Disc (MMCD) 1990s Philips and Sony

The MMCD was designed as a single sided compact disc, with a single or dual layer. The capacity for a single layer is 3,7GB , compared with 7.4GB for the dual layer. It is backward compatible with the CD and CDROM. It did not become a standard.

Super Density Disc (SD) 1990s Toshiba

The Super Density Disc (SD) was adopted as the standard format, with an addition of to two options, proposed by the Philis/Sony team. For more information see the section on the DVD below.

DVD

With the two competing options, one offered by Sony/Philips and the other by Toshiba, we seemed to be on the brink of another format war. It looked like a repeat of the format battle of the 1980s when the Sony Betamax was battling it out with the “Video Home System” VHS standards, at the expense of the consumer. What does the consumer buy? In my opinion the Betamax was a better option, but the consumer market decided, and the victory went to VHS.

But the impeding battle did not take place Through the with mediation of Lou Gerstner, president of IBM a compromise was reached.

The Sony and Philips MMCD format was abandoned and the Toshiba SD format adopted, with these two additions:

the pit geometry which allows push-pull tracking, a proprietary technology of Philips and Sony, and the EFMPlus, created by Kees immink. The EFMPlus encoder is based on a deterministic finite state machine, having four states, which translates 8-bit input words into 16-bit codewords.

This compromise created the DVD format, which became the standard format in December 1995 and will continue as such until the majority of people will no longer be satisfied with “standard video” but demands high density video for all there movies. Than the new Blu-ray format will take over.

DVD format

The DVD uses a red laser to scan the patterns of bumps on a mirrored surface, which are interpreted as bits. These bits can be assembled into bytes jus as on a CD. However the bumps and tracks on a DVD are much smaller and can therefore hold significantly more information, up to 4.7GB.

Professional Disc for Data (PDD)

With the decision made in favor of the Toshiba, Super Density Disc and the abandonment of the Multi Media Compact Disc (MMCD) as the main technology for the DVD, Sony set out to design a disc they called Professional Disc for Data (PDD). The need for a higher capacity disc for the upcoming high density television systems was a certainty.

Sony introduced the PDD in 2003 and it became available in 2004. This new format utilized the 405nm (Nana meter), BLU-violet laser for reading and writing to the disc, allowing for a much higher data storage than the red laser used in the DVD. The capacity of the disc was 23GB compared with 4.5GB for a single layer DVD.

The PDD format was very short lived and was discontinued in 2007. This made way for the next generation of optical media for the Philips/Sony team, the Blu-ray.

Blu-Ray

Blu-ray technology was developed jointly by Sony & Philips, along with an extensive board of directors.

Apple, Inc. Dell HP Hitachi LG Mitsubishi Electric Panasonic Pioneer Philips Samsung Sharp Sony

Sun Microsystems TDK Thomson Twentieth Century Fox

Walt Disney Warner Bros.

Blu-ray uses a 405nm wavelength blue-violet laser and has a tight track pitch of 0.85

The surface layer is 0.1mm-thick, which enables the laser to focus at the 0.85 aperture.

The disc uses a hard polymer coating called Durabis, which was developed by TDK and is supposedly? extremely resilient and fingerprint resistant.

The Java platform, which is used for menus and multimedia, is mandatory. Blu-ray systems must support JVM.

Capacity

Rom Single Layer 25GB

Rom Dual Layer 50GB

RW Single Layer 27GB

RW Dual Layer 54GB

Highest Test 100GB

Theoretical Limit 200GB

HD DVD

Toshiba

Rom Single Layer 15GB

Rom Dual Layer 30GB

Highest Test 45GB

Theoretical Limit 60GB

Abandoned February 19 2008

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Philips Hdmi

If i just have a regular Philips HDMI cord will that work on my ps3?

Or is there a special PS3 cord i need?

Any HDMI cable will work just fine w. the PS3

Dvd Combo

I am interested in a VCR / DVD combo for my home theater?

My receiver has the ability to accept fiber optic audio inputs as well as coaxial audio inputs.
Do these combo systems utilize one set of audio outs regardless of which unit I am using?
Which is better fiber optic or coax?
Why would I buy one of the newer units that has a DVD recorder?
Can I record to DVD from my Tivo unit?
Can I transfer VHS tapes to DVD?
Pricing seems to be a wide range from 89.00 to 400.00.
A bit overwhelming.

Thank you in advance.

VCR is analog only. So the digital sound output from the combo deck would not work when in VCR mode.

Coax is better for durability & reliability.

I think there are protection issues when copying from a device output directly. Use your receiver's secondary video output if you want to record cleanly. Not entirely sure.

You can transfer VHS to DVD with a DVD-Recorder. Again there are protection issues when doing this.

Yes pricing is varied but its mainly due to the features you want or need.