Advantages: Excellent pictures, supports DVD-Ram, good with Sky Disadvantages: Does not write DVD+R/RW, no CD-Text. JVC's poor reputation.
All DVD recorders are complex pieces of kit, and so this review necessarily goes into some detail to help you make the right choice for you. The situation is compounded by a format war, almost as bad as the old VHS/Beta war which resulted in the low quality format winning, but this time even more complicated.
If you already know about the various formats available, then skip a few paragraphs, but for the rest of us, let's first explain what the DVD formats are, and how they differ, so we can see where the JVCDR-M1 sits in today's marketplace.
There are essentially three formats of recordable DVD, and within two of those are R (recordable once only) and RW (recordable and erasable to re-use). Some of these DVDs will play on most domestic DVD players, and some won't. The types are:
* DVD-R and DVD-RW. The JVC uses these disks ...
colin99 27.06.2004 (21.10.2007)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of JVC DR-M 1
Advantages: light, spacious, handy, good material Disadvantages: no velcro compartments
JVC CB A79 Case Camcorder
also known as "reporter bag"
INTRO
With a weight below 180 grams this medium-sized case can be considered, without a doubt, a lightweight case. I have been looking for a case where to put my werdly-sized camera (Canon S5 IS) for a long time after the fiasco of the original canon bag in which my camera does not fit properly; so I was in a shop (Curry's) the other day and I spotted this case on a shelf with a 97p tag on it. I asked the assistant if it was indeed 97p and so it was... I imediately bought it. I later found out that the price of this bag usually varies between £10-£15, currently on amazon is around £13 so I can consider myself quite lucky and happy of the amazing deal.
OVERVIEW
So let's see some details, first of all the size: approximately 17 x 11 x 10cm. The material ...
