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Summary: Very Troublesome
Review: I bought this unit 6 months ago from Sears ($375) with the idea of transferring all of our family (kids first steps & such) vhs tapes over to dvd format. With instructions in hand, the unit was up and running in a couple of hours. The instruction book is pretty well written but a little confusing. You don't copy to a dvd or tape, you "dubb" to it. I figure that dubbing is the result of some bad translation from Chinese to English. The copy process is very straight forward. Put in a burnable dvd, select the speed at which you want to record, I mean dubb at and your ready to push dubbing. The burning process occurs as the tape or other input device plays so there is nothing fast at all about the copy process. All this is pretty straight forward once you figure out how to find your way around the 50 button controller. After two months, the unit started acting strange. Before you could play anything on the dvd side, you first needed to start a vhs playing, stop the vhs, transfer over to the dvd then select menu and start playing or recording. The unit was also prone to locking up on a regular basis. So, back to Sears we go and swapped out for another one since it was within the 90 day warranty period. After four months on the second unit the exact same thing started happening again except now the 90 day warranty was over so to the shop it went. After 2 weeks of in the sears repair shop in California ( the local shop could not work on it ) and $275.00 we were back in business,,, for almost two weeks before it started crashing again. This time it is under the Sears 30 day repair warranty so I'm really hoping for a new unit.
Bottom line is that this unit has some serious design problems. Skipping, starting over in the middle of a movie, pausing while recording can all be expected, so buy rewrightable dvd disks to start over with. I would really look at other consumer reports before buying another vhs/dvd burner combo. This one just ain't worth it.
Rating:
Summary: Very Troublesome
Review: I bought this unit 6 months ago from Sears ($375) with the idea of transferring all of our family (kids first steps & such) vhs tapes over to dvd format. With instructions in hand, the unit was up and running in a couple of hours. The instruction book is pretty well written but a little confusing. You don't copy to a dvd or tape, you "dubb" to it. I figure that dubbing is the result of some bad translation from Chinese to English. The copy process is very straight forward. Put in a burnable dvd, select the speed at which you want to record, I mean dubb at and your ready to push dubbing. The burning process occurs as the tape or other input device plays so there is nothing fast at all about the copy process. All this is pretty straight forward once you figure out how to find your way around the 50 button controller. After two months, the unit started acting strange. Before you could play anything on the dvd side, you first needed to start a vhs playing, stop the vhs, transfer over to the dvd then select menu and start playing or recording. The unit was also prone to locking up on a regular basis. So, back to Sears we go and swapped out for another one since it was within the 90 day warranty period. After four months on the second unit the exact same thing started happening again except now the 90 day warranty was over so to the shop it went. After 2 weeks of in the sears repair shop in California ( the local shop could not work on it ) and $275.00 we were back in business,,, for almost two weeks before it started crashing again. This time it is under the Sears 30 day repair warranty so I'm really hoping for a new unit.
Bottom line is that this unit has some serious design problems. Skipping, starting over in the middle of a movie, pausing while recording can all be expected, so buy rewrightable dvd disks to start over with. I would really look at other consumer reports before buying another vhs/dvd burner combo. This one just ain't worth it.
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Summary: MY EXPERIENCE EXCELLENT ALL THE WAY!!!!
Review: I purchased one of these units from the Sears website approximately 1 year ago in January 2004..liked it so much that I bought another one in February 2004 (one for each of my cable boxes). I use both of these units AT LEAST 4 hours per day for recording TV programs...HAVE NEVER HAD A SINGLE PROBLEM. Haven't had the need to do too much dubbing, but the five or six things I did dub came out perfectly. I don't know the life expectancy of these machines, but at this writing, one year later, I AM EXTREMELY PLEASED. Can't speak to the negative reviewers, I am sure their experiences are real. I guess every manufacturer produces lemons. Perhaps the key to my success with these recorders has been that I use Fuji DVD-RW disks EXCLUSIVELY. As per the instructions that came with the unit, it is essential to use Version 1.1. of the blank DVD-RW disks.
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Summary: Dont Buy
Review: This Unit is not worth the money spent and if like me you bought it from sears. Dont take it back when they are having a sale on same player because they wont return the 399.00 it originally cost only sale price Advertised that day.
Dubbing is not a problem from vcr-dvd or vice versa if you like watching the whole thing again. The only dvd players I found that would play the disc were other stand alone Recorders
or DVD/VCR combo units. It works great in the beginning but after a few months you get digital blocks, Pausing, jerking
and although it will still record it will lose the function to Finalize your discs. So More Coasters. Sears Repair center said the unit is Economically Unfeasable to repair as the dvd drive has gone out. Which is a Manufacturing problem obviously dont waste your money. Go to EBAY and you will see Tons of this same unit being sold from the Sears Liquidation Centers
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