If you thought Gateway was only half serious about morphing from a computer company into a consumer electronics provider, take a look at the GatewayAR-230 DVD Recorder...Like the company's successful plasma TV offering before it, the AR-230 is all about the family room, with nary a PC cable in sight...Aside from the brand name on the metallic champagne...
For recordings in the 1-hour and 2-hour modes, video quality was impressive and far beyond that of any VCR...Those looking for optimal video quality will want to record from the S-Video or FireWire input using either of the top two modes...On the playback end, the AR-230 supports just about every standard disc you can throw at it...
To gauge the DVD Recorder's abilities as a recording device, we connected to a Dish PVR 500 satellite receiver using an S-Video connection for video, and an analog stereo audio connection...At the two lower quality settings, we began to notice blurriness in the overall image quality, which became especially pronounced when using the MPEG1-based SLP recording mode...Both did a very good job of preserving...
I definitely recommend it for the price...But electronically, the Gateway AR230 is pretty good for the MONEY...It does make good DVDs -- and for my purposes that is good enough...
He told me that it was a great purchase and highly recommended that I purchase one...good when it works it doesn't work I was interested in a DVD recorder and started looking into them...Good array of inputs and outputs; relatively simple to operate Poor documentation, hard to read front panel display, unreliable recording I have had this recorder for almost two months...
lightweight terrible quality control, terrible service The first recorder gradually lost capabilities over the first two days after delivery...I tried both component (RCA) connections and SVideo+optical connections into my Sony STR-DE675 AV receiver...I'd be very upset if their inability to provide a standardly compatible product had cost me the full purchase price for an unusable product...
With the GatewayAR-230 DVD player/recorder, you can play movies and music, ... The GatewayAR-230 DVD Recorder has it all in one package.Recording TV shows is ...
GatewayAR-230 DVD Recorder - Product Of The Week. Sunday June 20, 2004 ... Don't Buy the GatewayAR230. I cannot sync up the sound on anything I recorded. ...
The AR-230 may not respond to any type of command from the remote or the front ... RESOLUTION: Download and install the GatewayAR-230 firmware 1163 or newer to ...
GatewayAR-230 DVD Recorder R3. What type of information would you like? Driver Downloads ... Gateway.com | Support Help | My Support. Global Gateway: ...
