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| HP DVD Movie Writer dc4000 | 
 enlarge | Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Category: CE
List Price: $349.98
Buy Used: $100.00
You Save: $249.98 (71%)
Used (2) from $100.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 19441
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.6
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.1 x 2.9
MPN: Q2125A#ABA
Model: Q2125A#ABA
UPC: 829160278162
EAN: 0829160278162
ASIN: B0001PFQ76
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Read and write CD-R and CD-RW discs, as well as DVD R/ RW discs | | • | Transfer home videos to DVD fast and easily | | • | Includes software that lets you edit video, photos, music and data applications | | • | Compatible with Microsoft Windows XP and 2000 Professional. | | • | One-year limited hardware and software warranty |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
An external DVD writer with built-in analog video capture and full DVD ?R/?RW and CD writer capabilities, the dc4000 lets users quickly and easily transfer home videos directly from tape to digital format via their PCs.The HP DVD Movie Writer is the fast, easy way to transfer home videotapes to DVD using your PC. It installs in seconds and the included Video Transfer Wizard offers automatic conversion of home movies to DVD.The HP DVD Movie Writer is the all-in-one DVD video and storage solution that lets you transfer, edit and preserve your home video with one easy-to-use device and your PC. No complexity, just a simple, complete home-video-to-DVD solution.The HP DVD Movie Writer lets you easily transfer your precious video memories to long-lasting DVDs and protect them for future generations. Turn your home videotapes into DVD movies, share them with friends and family and enjoy them all over again.Choose among editing features that are right for your skill level, from novice to enthusiast. Delete unwanted scenes and keep the highlights; automatically set video clips to music; create special presentations for family and friends.Easy-to-use digital editing software makes it fun to bring your photos and home movies to life with special effects, music and more. more.
Amazon.com Product Description
Ready for a one-stop platform for organizing, editing, and burning digital media? HP's DVD Movie Writer dc4000 is an external 8x DVD writer with built-in analog video capturing abilities to let you quickly and easily transfer your treasured home videos directly from tape (via camcorder or VCR) to both your PC and to recordable DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW, and CD-R/-RW media. But it's not just for video--the drive's full suite of video-editing software also includes dedicated applications for photo, music, and data. Write speeds are 8x DVD+R, 8x DVD-R, 4x DVD+RW, and 4x DVD-RW, with up to 24x CD-R and 16x CD-RW. Connected to a desktop or notebook PC through its USB 1.1 port, the dc4000 is designed to digitally encode VHS and other analog sources and create digital negatives on long-life DVD discs. It converts video from a variety of formats, including VHS, Hi8, Digital 8, and BetaMax--essentially any format from any component offering analog video outputs. The dc4000 is also designed to function as a standard DVD/CD writer to burn music, photos, and data to both DVD and CD. After the dc4000 converts analog tapes to the digital MPEG-2 format--the same format all commercially available DVDs are written to--you'll be able to edit and share your DVD masterpieces with friends and family. And you can get as detailed as you want in editing your DVDs--the dc4000 includes ArcSoft ShowBiz 2.1, a full editing package, and muvee autoProducer, a simple music-oriented video-editing application. ShowBiz 2.1 lets you add or delete scenes, add music or special effects, and create slideshows set to music. Easy-to-use screens let you drag and drop video clips, digital photos, and music files in either storyboard or simple timeline-editing formats. autoProducer is a fun and easy editing package that quickly turns digital movies into music videos with a few clicks of a mouse. The dc4000 also includes an enhanced video-transfer wizard that simplifies batch loading of multiple tapes or clips to a single DVD and permits time-saving background processing. Other software updates include the 6.5 version of RecordNow and ArcSoft PhotoBase 4.5 to help you create, organize, and burn photo slideshows. Veritas RecordNow and Simple Backup help you save data, video, or music on DVDs and CDs. Simple Backup reliably backs up, protects, and restores individual files or folders and can also help restore an entire PC hard drive. Additionally, Cyberlink PowerDVD software makes it easy to play DVD movies on a PC. What's in the Box
HP DVD movie writer dc4000, software CD (including electronic user's guide, quick-start installation guide, and getting-help support guide), a USB cable, a composite-video/stereo analog audio cable, an audio splitter cable, and 1 blank recordable DVD.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 22 more reviews...
 A+ For Those Home Movie Makers!!!!!!!!!!!! December 16, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got this HP DVD burner refurbished, actually. It was a great deal, so I thought, why not try it? It has lots of different software, which is nice. I have not had any problems with it. I love it! I have never had a DVD burner before, but I would say it burned them pretty quickly. I love that you can lay it flat, or stand it up for a space-saver.
Thanks for the memories August 8, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am a camcorder buff. Ever since my children were born, I have
had the camcorder attached to my hand most days because I know
that life is fleeting and memories are too precious to be lost.
I had a huge collection of video tapes and was able to transfer
the entire collection to DVD. Now I know that they will last at
least through my life time.. Also, I find that using the Showbiz
application, I can create customized DVDs for my friends and
that has saved me a ton of money in gifts..
The only problem we had with this product was that we had
limited hard disk memory and had to acquire some more.
And I have probably created more than a 100 DVDs by now.
Thanks HP!
 Wonderful idea, with good tech support March 22, 2005
This little device is a great invention from HP. I had problems installing the unit and was on the telephone with HP Tech support (India) for 1.75 hours, I spent very little time on hold.
The largest draw back to the unit is my computer acts like the DC4000 is not there from time to time and required me to reboot the computer in order to use this nifty device.
Great software and hardware December 31, 2004
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I bought this about 2 weeks back and I love this product. I already converted nearly 20 of my VHS and miniDVs to DVD. There are 3 software applications given along with this... which I think is a bargain. I love the Arcsoft ShowBiz product. I was able to edit my video, set chapters, backgrounds on the DVD tilte page etc. I have not tried adding any audio yet. I like to keep the original talk/chatter on my home videos. It's kinda fun to hear those later.
As for the negatives and the reason I only gave 4 stars is that the direct transfer software does not seem to work correctly, at times. I set the capture time to 1.5 hours and it wrote only .5 hours of video to disk although I saw that the complete video was captured from tape. I don't know what went wrong and lost couple of disks because of this. Another reason I gave only 4 stars is that the backup software (not related to DVD conversion) does not seem to work well with 1.1 USB ports.
The installation instructions could have been better.
Another reviewer mentioned that they had problems with no video signal after a couple of conversions. Well, I had the same problem and tried changing the cables a bit and figured out that the USB cable was defective. Replaced with a new USB cable with gold plated edges and it worked fine.
Over all, I am pleased with product.
 hp dc4000 vcr to dvd converter December 15, 2004
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Product works but hardware and support information are not up to what we perceive to be HP standards.
Hardware issue: Small plastic door on DVD tray sometimes catches the tray on closing and is pulled out of alignment.
Support issue: Technical support information is totally superficial. There is really no product manual. ArtSoft software provided with the product has help files that are also lacking in depth.
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