JVC QPF90AL QPF90AL DVD Recorder/AMP/Sp

Advantages: small
Disadvantages: remote

...I was looking for a reasonable quality VHS recorder, so that the kids could wach their existing videos, and for us to record TV. Lets face it, with the cost of DVD players and all their benefits you are not buying a VHS as your only method of watching new films any more. Instead, you will be buying your last VHS player to watch existing media as it gradually deteriorates and to record your favourite TV shows to watch later. The JVC does exactly what is required. One of the selling points of the JVC is its B.E.S.T. system for improving the quality of recording and playback. This process takes 7 seconds before recording or playback, but does give a good quality picture. Given a compatable TV, the remote control can also be used for basic TV functions. The fast forward and rewind functions can be used with the On Screen Display... Read review

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Advantages: Moderate price, range of useful features. BEST system
Disadvantages: Inteligent rewind - kicks in more often than required, 7 second delay on recording while BEST checks tape.

...I was looking for a reasonable quality VHS recorder, so that the kids could wach their existing videos, and for us to record TV. Lets face it, with the cost of DVD players and all their benefits you are not buying a VHS as your only method of watching new films any more. Instead, you will be buying your last VHS player to watch existing media as it gradually deteriorates and to record your favourite TV shows to watch later. The JVC does exactly what is required. One of the selling points of the JVC is its B.E.S.T. system for improving the quality of recording and playback. This process takes 7 seconds before recording or playback, but does give a good quality picture. Given a compatable TV, the remote control can also be used for basic TV functions. The fast forward and rewind functions can be used with the On Screen Display... Read review

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

.... I've never seen another DVD recorder which is this well connected. But alas it blows away some of the gains here by failing to provide any RGB input, and surely this is a necessity for connecting a Sky box and getting the best possible picture. Most Sky boxes don't have S-Video out, mine doesn't. So I have to use the composite video input for Sky, which is good but not fantastic. It does integrate very well with a Sky Digital box in every other respect, for example it has "loop through" so you can connect the Sky box to the DVD recorder and then the DVD recorder onto whatever the Sky box used to be plugged into, be it TV or AV amp etc. When the JVC is switched off or recording, it sends the Sky signal on as though it wasn't even there. This is so useful in practice, you wouldn't believe it, and it's such a pity it only works... Read review

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