Combined AV Devices > LG Electronics Combined AV Devices

Advantages: Value, quality, ease of use
Disadvantages: None to mention at this price

Excellent value for money and good performance. The DVD section is a breeze to use and it copes with just about anything you can throw at it. As a player it is happy with disks that have never played properly in other machines. The VCR section seems to work fine and is very quiet and picture quality seems good by VCR standards. Shared settings like setting the timer that can be used for both the DVD recorder and VCR and with room for 16 entries ...
...Good buld quality and a reasonbly good looking unit. Best of all, it was about 25% cheaper than similar models on sale at the time I bought it.. This is old technology with a VCR recorder, but a really simple way to transpose VCR to DVD and get rid of those old decaying tapes. ... Read review

Advantages: You can play DVD and VHS on one machine , Tape TV while watching DVD
Disadvantages: Big compared to new machines

I have had this for nearly 3 years and It is still going strong. Never had any problems with it. If any one is still looking to get a VHS player I would certainly recommend it. The facility to copy DVD's on to VHS is easy to do. Just one press of a button on the machine or the remote. It also allows you to watch DVD and tape a television program at the same times which can be useful. The DVD playback is not bad not crystal clear if you look at it ...
...to stick with it as I do not see any dramatic picture improvement in any newer standard model DVD players I have seen. Also it is very easy to make into a multi region player as if you put the make and model into any search engine you will find a program you can download and burn to a CD. That when you put it in the machine it gives you the choice to set it to any region. So if you set it to region 0 it will play DVD's from anywhere. The only real ... Read review

Advantages: Size 750 Gb
Disadvantages: DVD files not read, menu not active, user interface poor, remote control buttons not active

...to find the next file. The DVD's menus are also not active. Don;t expect as well any support at all from iomega and so far I can't get anyone in iomega to tell me where to send back this crap product. Save your money, don;t buy this. ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to use, quick operation, good quality playback
Disadvantages: Remote control buttons small, front panel display small and basic

The Samsung DVD-V6700S (UK version) comes in attractive silver and is quite a wide unit as it supports both DVD playing and video tape recording/playing. The unit height is low, giving a slim appearance, but make sure you have room for the width. A good number of digital/analogue I/O (including on the front panel) allows it to be connected in many combinations to other equipment. Video/sound quality is good, including tape recording/playback. ...
...to see from across the room, though there's not much information on it. Remote control buttons are small with the legends difficult to see if your eyesight is not so good. Operation is straightforward though. The on-screen menus aren't too well arranged but it doesn't take too long to understand them. TV channel setup is automatic and works really well. The NTSC (North American TV) setup didn't correspond with the manual, so I'm not sure how this ... Read review

Advantages: records straight from VHS to DVD, acutally real dual tuner!
Disadvantages: cannot edit unless you use DVD-RAM discs, not freeview

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Reasons for purchasing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I had about 300 recorder video tapes of some key moments that I wanted to keep. Having had them stored in cardboard boxes for about 5-10 years, I was worried about the degradation of their quality so decided to invest in a dvd-recorder rather than a dvd-writing service..After some research between this and a hitachi model I opted for this. My primary requirement was to copy ...
...is real time which means you cannot use either function as you have to play the video tape in order to write it to the dvd for permanent retention. ~~~~~~~~~~ The Unit ~~~~~~~~~~ The unit is a matt silver colour with the DVD unit on the left and the VCR unit on the right. The respective load/unload buttons are the the right of each of these units. The on/off button (A big silvery button) is located on the bottom left along with a hidden panel ... Read review