 JVC Sad Choice for a VCR Strengths: Has S-Video in and out, has inputs on front of unit as well as the back of the unit. Supports Super VHS ET Recording, Comes with the cable box transmitter so you can hook this up to a cable box.
Weaknesses: Unit functions poorly, basic features aren't there!
Summary: There is no counter on the display, front of the unit, only counter appears on the TV Screen. There is no way to have a counter displaying while your fast forwarding, only while the tape is stopped or playing at normal speed.
Cannot stop a timer recording while its in progress.
Unable to select which channel it outputs to, it only outputs to channel 3, there’s no channel 3/4 switch on the back of the unit.
There is no up and down channel select for the channel that VCR is turned to on the unit of the VCR, can only change the channel via the remote control.
There is no eject button on the remote.
Difficult to set up a single non-VCR Plus recording, there’s a different button for each thing on the remote, which is rather weird, like
Very difficult to review list of schedule recordings, can only view one at a time.
The unit is constantly displaying play, video calibration during playback, making it difficult to record something without the on screen notices constantly displaying.
S-Video output is dark compared to that of the regular RCA output.
My overall experience with this VCR sucked, I spent the extra money to buy two of these units, thinking that they were high end, and after being told by JVC tech that it would do everything I had hoped (include a display counter on the unit it’s self, that of which it didn’t have), to only be sadly disappointed. I’ve been using Sony VCRs until this point and had always been happy, the quality was best, and very easy to navigate and set up, but these JVCs were the biggest pieces of crap, they were returned within a couple of days, and I ended up buying some older Sony models on eBay, since apparently the newer Sony models are lacking the basic features that their original models are. Although this supports S-VHS and Super VHS ET, I wasn’t able to notice the quality, and the problem is that not many other VCRs support this so if this unit would break you would be stuck with tapes with stuff on them that you couldn’t watch. I’d stay as far away from JVC VCRs as possible, they are poorly built and the basic features just aren’t there, let alone that the unit hardly weighs anything, so you start to wonder what’s inside them…
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