JVC DR-MH300SE

Advantages: Excellent pictures, supports DVD-Ram, good with Sky
Disadvantages: Does not write DVD+R/RW, no CD-Text. JVC's poor reputation.

...the cause is, but I know it is a resistor change and firmware update. Worse still, this crash confused the analogue tuner, which now thinks I live in Eastern Europe and won't properly tune to UK channels (no sound). Mine's out of guarantee too! But Richer Sounds, bless them, have agreed to get it repaired for me anyway. ..... JANUARY 2005: Back from Richer Sounds, suitably repaired. Happy again..... JULY 2005: Still working well. I've found it is occasionally possible to crash the machine during a recording if the input video is extremely unstable, such as from totally worn out video tapes. If this happens it reboots and carries on recording a few minutes later. Not really a criticism because it takes an attrocious signal to make this happen. OCTOBER 2008: I've now migrated onto the JVC DR-MH200 DVD recorder with built in hard disk... Read review

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Advantages: space saving, nice simple cabinet design, good freeview reception
Disadvantages: very poor picture quality

...manufacturer so I get to test them on several different telly's and I've not seen many as bad as this one....in fact for SD DVD's we only use CRT telly's to do QA checks on DVD's playability and picture quality ...LCD telly's simply aren't up to the job (and this is of august 2008!!!) The only plus point was that the freeview tuner was fast and seemed sensitive and I had no problems with the finding and programming of channels. So I've gone back to my CRT telly and have given the the JVC LT32DR7 to my mum and dad as one of the guns died in their Sanyo CRT...so it better than no telly for them. I haven't yet found a LCD/Plasma that can match a good CRT picture quality for SD sources. I think I'll wait till HD is the norm and then go for a LG telly which are so far the best LCD telly I've stood in front of and watched...probably down to they... Read review

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Advantages: auto dub of whole vhs tape to hard drive
Disadvantages: unreliable unpredictable

.../DVD/HDD option and now they are ALLunavailable. Dubbing a complete VHS tape to HDD worked ok but trying to dub just part of a VHS tape was uncontrollable/unpredictable ie unreliable and often failed and I tried to avoid doing this.... Then dubbing from HDD to DVD - worked ok for about 100 discs - then started to play up. It would spontaneously shut down. Finally today I was deleting a few programmes on the HDD it crashed frequently and finally would not boot up. I now power on and it says LOADING and goes no further. I removed DVD drive makes no difference. Put DVD back and remove Diamond Maxtor HDD in case it was corrupted - still says LOADING. will not power up any more So an expensive failure just out of warranty. I will NEVER EVER buy JVC again both my MV1 and MX1 are a waste of money.... Read review

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