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JVC, the father of VHS, has kept the VHS format alive for over 25 years. JVC has made considerable advances in VHS recording and playback over the years and was the dominant format used for much of the 80's and 90's until it met it's end with optical discs (CD Video, Video CD, DVD, HD-DVD, UMD, Blu-Ray, etc...). Of the "major" advances in VHS, Digital VHS (D-VHS) had the potential to be the most significant. While, VHS and Super VHS were the standard, D-VHS brought 1080i true HD quality video to the consumer, years before HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. D-VHS far surpassed even the conventional DVD in image quality, but in the end, the consumer preferred the disc over the tape. With less than 200 movies in the D-VHS format, JVC simply could not compete with the overwhelming acceptance of DVD that caught on in the late 1990's. D-VHS was not sold to the consumer until the early 2000's and by that time, DVD had already hit critical mass, being sold at Walmart, Sears and other major retailers. D-VHS remained a small niche for video enthousiasts until the technology was abandoned in 2005. Today, D-VHS has a small following and remains a highly collectible form of media content. Tapes typically sell for $20 to over $150 a piece depending on the rarity of the title. The JVC HM-DH30000U machine was one of the earlier models offered by JVC and was the backbone of the D-Theater encryption playback technology for the format. I have had 3 of these machines over the years and am most familiar with this unit. I highly recommend this machine for both D-VHS, S-VHS and regular old VHS playback and recording capabilities. It is easy to use and will easily play your limited D-VHS collection and unlimited VHS collection. D-VHS was a technology ahead of it's time in video quality but behind the times in media format. The disc beat out the tape (just like in the audio world of Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) and Digital Audio Tape (DAT) against the Compact Disc (CD)). Superior products to the LP and analog cassette (and even the CD) but too late in the game to make a difference. Buy one of these rare machines for both videophile historical sake and to have a machine that will play and record all of your "old" tape media.Read full review
I bought this JVC DTheater VCR unit for $311 to replace one I purchased 15 years ago when I worked at Sears. The price was $1200. My original unit could not be repaired so, I bought this used one to replace it. Other than a few scratches on the top, it works fine and looks good. I have the owners manual and remote from my original unit so I am very satisfied!
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The DH-30000 Digital VHS recorder is a one of a kind. I bought one originally while stationed overseas and did a phenomenal recording of any video recording, even though HD was not a household word. Unfortunately a lightning power surge here in Florida took out the original unit and I had to try to find a replacement. Remember we did not have Hard drive DVRs back then, and if you modified your computer it was rather expensive. The only thing that bugs me about the unit is that you cannot scan video forward or backwards, in digital format, without screen blanking as you can in standard VHS format. You can get pretty close with the digital counter and then hit play. Since I have digital format D-VHS tapes, I now can complete tranferring them to hard drive or burn to disk. It's still a great archival backup machine!Read full review
A rare and useful machine. Tested and found to be fully functional. Too bad they don't make these anymore
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Thank you so much for this vcr! It was perfect and just finished watching my first movie in in 1080i on my OLED and it looked amazing! The player is amazing! Very secure securely packed up. Worked great. Arrived fast!
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