Magnavox 537, 535, 533, 515, 513, 2160A, 2160, 2080 & Philips 3576, 3575 - Page 665

Retail boxes are red, "refurb" boxes are brown:

I know it is of no comfort to you, but that is very unusual. I have never heard of J&R doing that to anyone ever before this. It is unfortunate.


Yeah, the bottom box in the picture looks exactly like mine. It came with a gray plastic cover over the box, but that IS the box I have. The unit was bubble-wrapped inside the box.

Actually.....pretty good. They discovered they didn't have what you ordered and promptly returned your money instead of stringing you along for weeks with "backorder" promises that never come to fruition.

I work for a direct marketing company (totally unrelated industry) - the warehouse is about 30 ft from my desk as I type this ON MY LUNCH HOUR (in case IT is snooping). But anyway, sometimes you're getting low on stock on something, and the picker goes to pull the last one off the warehouse shelf for an order.....only to discover it's damaged and the last guy in line gets disappointed. It happens. Not much comfort, I know. But there's a good chance more 513s and 515s will hit the pipeline one way or another.

A similar thing happened to me. I ordered a 515 refurb on Jan. 25 from J&R and received an email order confirmation, but the confirmation didn't have shipping or expected arrival dates. My credit card was charged, however. I called the next day to get a shipping date and was told the order would have to be cancelled as they were sold out and wouldn't be getting any more in, ever. I was given a lame explanation that they must have sold out while my order was being placed. Right.

I have my own theory about what happened, and it isn't complimentary to their phone sales staff.

Knowing that these units come in periodically (in spite of what I was told by the sales guy), I checked back daily and was able to order one successfully on Feb. 24.

To be fair, I've always had good service from J&R except for the Jan. order, and I'll continue to do business with them. Better luck next time the 515's are in stock (and don't drag your feet getting your order in).

Or J&R just has poor synchronization between their inventory tracking system and their e-commerce system.....

I've ordered 515 on Feb. 01 and received a week later. A couple days earlier they did not have any. One has to be vigilant.

Actually, their web site information and inventory tracking is quite good, but nothing is perfect.

Thanks to all who have responded concerning my J&R problem.

I wasn't really bashing them as much as I was disappointed, although I would think they could keep a better handle on their inventory and not accept orders for product that has sold out.

I did talk to customer service and that seems to be what happened. I asked if I could be put on a list for the next batch of 515's. They assured me that the 515's have been discontinued and there wouldn't be anymore. Then I asked if they had anymore 513's. I was told they didn't think so but they connected me to the sales department to be sure. The sales associate did find one 513 which he sold to me. So-- I at least have a 513 coming.

I already have a 515 but I wanted another one. Maybe like some of the rest of you, I'll find myself with more recorded programs than I will have time to watch.

Thanks again.

Thanks wajo.

I already have the SuperFW 727V downloaded to my computer as well as the other FW versions that could be used in the 513 or my 515.

One question though - is it better to burn the file to CD or DVD? I don't seem to have a program to burn the file to DVD but do have a program that would burn it to CD.

Thanks again.

In my area 7.1 is ABC's digital channel. For some reason my 515 does not get an audio signal when tuned to it. It has no problem getting the audio from the analog side. My other Digital TVs get audio on the channel. What might be the cause.

Let's say i have a movie stored on HDD, and i wanna put a portion of that on DVD, can i do this, or does it have to involve the WHOLE movie? IF i can dub a partial title from hdd to dvd, how do i do it?

Wally shows the 515's in stock!

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Magnavox-M...er/15080509#rr

Umm... I am all the way at the end of checkout with site to store, and it is a go. I do not need it so I don't plan to buy it. Somebody else try it and see if you can get that far. Is it possible the only one in stock is in my cart?

Here is the checkout:

Order SummaryReturn to cart
Store Pickup
Orlando Store Wal-Mart Supercenter #890
11250 E Colonial Dr, Orlando, FL 32817 Change
Pickup person: xxxxx xxxxxxxx
Item Arrives at store 4/16-4/20 QtyTotal
Magnavox MDR515H/F7 500GB HDD and DVD-R with Digital Tuner
1$299.88
Subtotal (1 item) $299.88
Tax $19.49
Order Total$319.37

wajo, you want me to release it from my cart and then you try to add it?
I would really like someone here on AVS that needs it to get it if it is the only one available.

I will release it at exactly 9:00am eastern, if you are ready.

Sweet! I know some people have been looking for a new one.
I'm glad it wasn't just an anomaly on my end.

I put one in my cart. But reading the description:

"•1-month, 36-even programming"

How odd.

It has been sold.

Hi,
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ImgBurn
That is all I use for burning CDs, DVDs and BluRays. Data or Movie or ISOs.
In fact this is the only disc burning software I have installed on my computers.

It is only a burning program. It does no conversions and that also makes it small and compact.

I use other programs to convert video and author DVD & BluRay movies.

Only thing to watch out is to uncheck the three (3) options connected to the ASK toolbar, Default search engine & Home page.

Good Luck

Maybe we are making the Walmart computer unhappy and it's playing with us.

Can also enter quantity 1 and proceed to checkhout, HOWEVER, they are apparently "rationing" both 513 or 515 to one-per-person, as the QTY can't be changed on either site. Also, if you attempt to change the QTY during checkout, the following message appears:
Clicking, brings up an Inventory Limitations message:


Appears the boat from China has finally arrived.

Thanks for your post.
I thought that the program I have would at least burn a CD but such does not seem to be the case, at least without an expensive upgrade. So, I will give your burning program a try.

Thanks again.

Has anyone used one of the converters (component or HDMI to composite) units Wajo mentioned around June of last year? The ones sold by Monoprice?

Are they still acting as "filters" as well as video converters? Also, if the picture coming thru them is in real widescreen (not letterbox), am I right in understanding they'll leave the picture UN-letterboxed even in the composite (or S-video) feed?

Tonight USA Network will be running a digitally restored version of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD in widescreen. (I only have a 4x3 version recorded from another channel.)

I'm getting it on the cable DVR for now, but to offload it I'll need something that'll leave the picture un-letterboxed. (At least, that's the format I want it in. I found new software that will allow a DVD's .vob file of a widescreen broadcast to be made anamorphic with no quality loss, and want to have a widescreen recording to work with.)

If I try to feed it into one of my 515s, the feed from the cable box will create a letterboxed 4x3 picture. I haven't found a way to stop it, even when I set the cable box for a 16x9 TV.

Most likely I'll be looking to use the component feed off the cable box to feed the filter, so if anyone has used one of those, especially one bought recently...