Sony SLV-N51 VHS VCR

Pros: The 60 second rewind and Sony's High Quality.
Cons: None.

Let's stick with SONY- The Sony SLV-N51 VCR

After countless nights of my husband and I fighting with our children over who gets the TV with the VCR, we decided we couldn't take it anymore. It was time to get a second VCR.
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Pros: Flash rewind, good picture quality
Cons: No LCD counter

What were you doing Thanksgiving weekend? Hopefully having more fun than I was. I found myself in the TV and appliance section of Sears with three fussy kids and a confusing array of choices for VCRs. Our old VCR had finally succumbed to repeated...

Pros: Fast rewind, reasonable price
Cons: Poor quality

After countless showings of Barney, Blues Clues and Scooby Doo tapes, our VCR gave up and we needed to purchase a new one. Knowing that the new machine would be used and abused on a daily basis, we wanted a quality VCR, but did not want to spend a lot...

Pros: Packed with nice features for a great price.
Cons: Lack of quality control: 2 defective units in 6 months.

Our well-loved, much-used 7-year-old Panasonic VCR suffered catastrophic failure last fall, so I devoted a Saturday to finding a suitable replacement. I managed to find what I thought was a great solution -- a VCR with better features than the old one...

Pros: Fast Rewind, easy menu setup, worked good at first
Cons: Stopped working after about 6 months

I bought this VCR about 6 months ago. It was reasonably priced for a Sony at $99, and it worked great at first. The rewind is fast, and the playback was good. The timer menu was a little annoying--could have been setup much simpler, but the rest of...

Pros: Fast rewind. Easy to use. It's a Sony and it's cheap.
Cons: None so far.

I had my last VCR for 12 years. So you can imagine I am not hard on things. When it broke I was thinking about repairing my old VCR. Then I found out how cheap a new one was. The only feature that I was looking for was a machine with 4 heads, for...

Pros: Rewind time is pretty fast, and the picture quality is pretty good.
Cons: The construction is really cheap and flimsy.

If you're comparing a few different brands of cheap VCR's, you might want to skip on the Sony SLV-N51. I bought the unit based on Sony's brand reputation, as I have a bunch of the older Sony items which have proved themselves as bulletproof consumer...

Pros: very easy to set up, 60-second rewind, automatic clock set.
Cons: no complaints so far.

This Sony VCR is perfect for those of us who are generally baffled by electronics equipment. My favorite quirky feature is that the clock sets itself by scanning through television stations to find the time. This way as long as you can manage to hook...

Pros: Warp speed rewind, Good Picture, Good Sound
Cons: None

Picture
Great colorful and crisp.

Sound
Great crisp

Flash Rewind (LOVE IT)
That is a great feature. You don't have to wait for a tape to rewind! I finished recording on a T-180 tape and I pressed rewind and it...

Pros: Cheap. Extremely fast rewind. Sony brand.
Cons: Remote control badly designed; channels blank out when surfing

Bar remote control. I hate it. The buttons are placed haphazardly, and they're too easy to press in a lot of cases. The power button is right next to the tv/vcr switch; if you use that switch (to turn off the tv) you're probably going to bump the...

Pros: remote, design, rewinding speed
Cons: very loud/grinds, lack of many menu/display features, picture quality

I purchased this VCR after my favorite VCR ever went dead. Don't laugh but that VCR was an RCA 4 head "Home Theater" VCR I purchased at Wal-Mart for about $199 (years and years ago!)

The VCR seems pretty good at first, but the more I used it...

Pros: Fast rewind, good price
Cons: a bit flimsy, poor remote

I needed a cheap, second VCR. Mainly for recording shows on different channels while I am traveling. (It's a long story why the other VCR can't do that without major hassle). So I went to the store to check out the lower end models and found a Sony...

Pros: Replays and rewinds are fine and it is a simple cheap unit.
Cons: it is irregular in recording programs. Mostly it just won't record consistently.

I purchased a second VCR so that I could record my programs on a VCR near my computer. Unfortunatel ...

Despite the other reviewer saying it won't play the same tapes more than a couple of times, I have had mine since February 2002 with absolutely NO problems! I am an old VCR user since the early 80s. On this machine, I have played rented movies, played and replayed my recordings, and played and replayed my purchased movies - all with ease! I have moved three different times because of my job, and this little VCR has travelled and worked with 3 different systems like a breeze! I DO RECOMMEND purchasing this VCR.

Just want to tell everyone out there DO NOT buy this product. It's compact, the flash rewind is great, but it does not play any tape that's been played more than a few times. This means it will play none of your old VCR collection or anything rented from the video store including even rather new releases.