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This DVD/VHS player/recorder allows you to watch what you want when YOU want to watch. Free yourself from the mind-numbing effects of live TV! Also watch commercial DVDs or VHS tapes, or use the dubbing capability of the machine to store those VHS tapes on DVD. If you live in a city, the reception off an indoor antenna is excellent: rid yourself of the cost of cable and the dozens of channels you never watch. If you have an analog TV, you can connect the D/V recorder/player to the TV using RCA cables for playback of recorded TV programs or simply use the recorder/player in DTV/TV mode to serve as a digital tuner for my analog TV and thus watch live TV on all the local channels. If you have cable TV service, you can connect the machine directly to your cable. The instruction manual is thorough, and after you have programmed the machine a time or two, it's a simple product to use. One slight limitation is that you cannot record two simultaneous TV programs, only one after another. If that is a significant limitation for you, buy two machines. The machine is very durable and trouble-free. One in the same series has functioned trouble-free for over 6 years. Highly recommended!Read full review
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I have used a few of these units, mostly for converting my VHS tapes, and am still impressed by the number of features on the unit. Good picture and recording quality on DVD and even on VHS, although, as expected, you can see lowered resolution with longer recording times. Synchronized recodings from tape to DVD were easy, and building menus was OK. I found that the recorder could be a bit finicky with some DVD-R/W and DVD-R brands (unit supports both plus and minus modes). Try a few different brands if you encounter issues when recoding. It pumps out DVDs that are compatible with every other unit I played them on. The RF antenna-in and -out are simply pass-through and serve to send the signal on to your TV and to the DVD/VCR. You cannot play back from DVD or VHS to the RF output. You can, of course, use the composite video+audio outputs. This is only an issue with older TVs without line-in sockets. Overall, a good pick, and especially for the price it can be found on the web.Read full review
Like: A lot of features, Digital tuner, HDMI upconversion, recording to VHS from tuner or DVD, recording to DVD from VHS, digital tuner, front input, rear input, front DV input. Picture quality is very good up to 3 hours, 4hours is a little bur but very acceptable to many. Love: Love price on eBay compared with expensive Panasonic EZ48V. Has many features better than EZ48V such as recording to VHS with tuner and from DVD which EZ48V does not have. No freeze so far as compared with EZ48V's occasional freezing. With Panasonic's price, you can buy 2 ZV457MG9. Dislike: Not much except the remote button is small and initializing DVD+RW and finishing recording is slow. The physical build is cheap.
This product is designed to play and copy home VCR tapes onto DVD. Does this pretty well if your home tapes are in good shape. Easy to use remote.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Kinda ironic that ebay wants me to write a review about this thing 2 days after it ate a tape and 1 day after the dvd recorder failed to record another program. well i've had it for about a month or so, up until recently the only problem i had with it, other than the lousy button layout, 45 second load time for ANY dvd, overall stupid interface, and the fact that u CAN'T set up the dvd and vcr to record at the same time, is that the dvd did not record a program. i've had 1 dvd recorder before this and it too seemed to have an occasional problem recording to a disk. i expected this to happen every once in a while, which is why i had half the programs recorded on the vcr part. i feel that vcr's are way more reliable than dvd recorders, mainly because i have a jvc vcr that has lasted me over 8yrs. well just the other day the vcr part started eating tapes. luckily i was able to get the tape out. i switched all the programs that i record on the vcr over to the dvd. the next day, when the dvd was set to record a program, i checked to make sure it started and was recording, which it was. when i tried to watch the program the next day, it did not record. "error writing to disk". i am so glad i didnt pay full price for this, but i wish i'd gotten the warranty. i would advise ppl to not only stay away from this dvd recorder, but dvd recorders in general. i've never had dvr, but i'd bet they are more reliable. one last annoying thing about this unit. the audio out is on the dvd side, which means if u have it hooked up to a home theater, only the sound from the dvd will come out through the speakers.Read full review
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