Advantages: Everything in one package Disadvantages: The manual is useless.
...across several reviews on similar JVC products saying how many problems they had. However we were impressed with it's specs so decided to take the chance.
What does it do?
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As I said I do not understand all the jargon. All sites selling the product will give you full specs, but here is what I have established it does.
VHS...The unit contains a fully functioning Video. You can play all video tapes, including the small ones from ... ...purchase. Despite our fears regarding JVC we have not encountered any problems, and the manual might be slightly cuckoo but in reality it only took us an hour to set up and a couple of days to work out how it all worked. Our four children have given it the robustness test, which it has thankfully survived.
5/6/05....One month on and no problems to report.
2/7/05....Still going strong.
21/11/07....Two and a half years on and no problems at all. ...
LUNAH_C 04.05.2005 (21.11.2007)
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Advantages: auto dub of whole vhs tape to hard drive Disadvantages: unreliable unpredictable
...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. ...
gerschwiler 03.09.2006
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Advantages: Edit out the commercials Disadvantages: Dense manual, poor menus, etc
The combo states it will record anything from the HDD to either VHS or DVD. Not strictly true. If your TV channels come digitally by cable or satellite this machine is not for you. Any digital sourced material can only be recorded in VR mode (incompatible with most DVD players and some other similar combos) on to DVD-RW discs only. The only workaround is to record to another VCR and then to this making the VHS deck a useless accessory. Some other ... ...the recorded quality (mbps) you can only burn a maximum of 8 programs to a DVD. more than 8 and you have to accept a much lower quality.
My HDD went sour after 3 weeks of use and was in the service center for 3 weeks.
There is no easy short cut switching between HDD, VHS and DVD - you have to exit all menus (often 3 or 4 steps) before you can access something else.
High speed dubbing (4x) can only take place if you've done no editing (e.g. trimming ...
Miyazaki 03.05.2006
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