Is this an out of dated dvd burner . it's been setting around in a box for few yrs. now my son wants to use this.his overseas in the army

Try this place on EBay . http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-STOVE-PARTS-Cast-Iron-Antique-Gas-Range-Top-Burner-Set-30s-40s-/160974704050?pt=Figurines&hash=item257ad70db2

hook the cable back up to dvd and have the out going to the tv. note the dvd & tv must be set to Ch 3.......go to set up / menu on both tv / dvd change source to cable (not air broadcast)

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mcdevito75 here, If your watch has a stem (winder) it is most likely 2 position, Pull out stem to first position, this should allow you to change the date, set the date at 1 number before the actuall date you want, NOW pull the stem out to set the time, rotate the hands until you have the date and time for the actuall date.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

for DVDs you are in region 4, america is in region 1
the only other region that it would play from is south america

so it will not work untill you find a dvd player that plays DVDs from all regions

i would try and get your money back from the company and say it doesnt work (act dumb) dont go saying its wrong region. just say it doesnt work

and if you want to watch the DVD buy it from austrailia

You'll probably have a hard time finding a DVD burner that would fit in your laptop as it's kinda old. I would suggest checking out the external dvd burners. Here are a few to check out.

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=420&name=External-CD-DVD-Drives

Double click the time located in the lower right corner of your computer to set the date and time.

Or open control panel then click Date and Time.

Save changes after.

Hi,
your armada can support optical devides as of dvd burners, but you will erase your bios/cmos memory in order to work.

locate your cmos battery, remove it for a few seconds turn on your laptop, this will cause your cmos memory clear out. then turn off and reconect your cmos battery, you will to set up your dates. If this didnt work maybe your optical drive does not function well, if you disconnect any optical device and your laptop startup well then you will to send it back to the vendor, because of a faulty in your dvd burner.

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Hello all, I have a LiteOn SHW-1635S IDE DVD/CD burner running on Microsoft XP Media Center OS with firmware version YS0Z Driver version 5.12535.0 The Hardware is Gateway GT 5058 approx 2 yrs old For some reason, this drive will not recongnize ANY rd-r media of any kind . I have tried the flashes.

I feel sorry for anyone who bought this piece of junk.

Nothing but problems. Flashes in recordings when constrast and scenes change. Black and white picture when it goes nuts and very often distorted or NO sound forcing you to stop and resume. Subtitles start automatically on every disc you put in, very annoying. Sony DVD remotes don't work at all on this box, which is also frustrating if you have kids and the original remote is often missing.

I am embarrassed to own this. I misread the box thinking it had component inputs for recoding. Not HD I thought...but component is definitely acceptable. To my horror there was only composite (Yellow Red White inputs)!. It's purposely designed this way so you can't get good quality recordings. In other words whatever you connect to the YRW is going to come out VHS lousy quality on your nice set.

This is like buying a cassette player to record your CD collection. I copied a couple shows for the kids and the poor quality and strobing backgrounds were too much to stomach on my Sony HDTV. The HDMI upscaling did NOTHING to improve the picture quality. I try them both separately and then together and toggled between both inputs and while there were some color shifts there was no difference in detail. I have many years in Photoshop so I knew what I was looking for.

The upscaled image actually looked worse than the original.

The only GOOD thing about this recorder is that it has a decent laser. It plays scratched discs that I know hung up the old player and goes through the rough spots without a single skip.

It also plays DVDR's that only played on the computer before.

The Jpeg slide feature is not impressive and the times I've tried to show I was reluctant to make anyone wait around while I fumbled around with the clumsy controls.

There are some overseas Sony models that have built in digital tuner, hard drive AND dvd burner with HDMI input so you can record right off the cable or digital channel and store it and later burn to a DVD and not loose any quality.

By the time US models have any decent capability we will have moved on to some other format.

It's the same for DVD burners. The 8.5 GB disks are still +$3/ea. even though the burners have been out five years or more!

Buy yourself an HD recorder and standard DVD player.

Make sure you read the box a couple times since "near HD quality" is often touted since it's most likely Component In instead of HDMI In. Check outside of the US for the best boxes. Also keep in mind how much storage HQ you can hold. The early models only hold 30 Hrs.

is the dvr burner hooked up to cable directly or is it coming from a cable box through video cable or again from coaxle cable?