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 JVC DR-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... 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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Advantages: Perfect picture, recorded onto DVD from video-tapes, TV, or from Sky.
Disadvantages: Fairly complex instruction manual; knowledge of different DVD formats helpful (see other review).

...was guided by the Comet salesman towards TDK DVD-RW discs, and Panasonic 120 min DVD-RAM. If you just want to make a temporary recording, e.g. from the TV, you can record over and over again onto these formats, just as you have done in the past with video-cassettes. The difference is the picture and sound quality. Both these DVD types provide outstanding quality. The picture and sound is immaculate, an exact replica of the live broadcast. The TDK DVD-RW discs are capable of recording 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours or 6 hours of material depending on your choice of setting on the JVC Recorder. The manual recommends that you use the 6 hour setting for slow-moving pictures, eg dramas, as there is a slight reduction in picture quality. You will need an uninterrupted afternoon if you're going to read the instruction manual! But it is worth it!... Read review

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Advantages: Edit out the commercials
Disadvantages: Dense manual, poor menus, etc

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Advantages: Clear Picture
Disadvantages: Por value for money

...The only thing I knew about JVC is that it used to be the sponsor of Arsenal FC. I recently purchased a 14 inc television model C-JT14. The colour is silver and comes with a 12 month guarantee.This TV is over priced at £200 and does not come with many features. Theres no teletext and it is not a digital version. This TV though is very reliable and the picture