Sony SLV-N51 VHS VCR Reviews

Sony SLV-N51 VHS VCR

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

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Jun 24, 2001
    Pros: The 60 second rewind and Sony's High Quality.
    Cons: None.

    Summary: 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. ... read more

  • Find another VCR and keep your receipt

    Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Jul 7, 2003
    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.

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

  • Avoid this VCR if you can

    Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Dec 17, 2002
    Pros: remote, design, rewinding speed
    Cons: very loud/grinds, lack of many menu/display features, picture quality

    Summary: 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 ... read more

  • Didn't Even Last a Year!!

    Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Oct 7, 2002
    Pros: Fast Rewind, easy menu setup, worked good at first
    Cons: Stopped working after about 6 months

    Summary: 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 ... read more

  • If you like Cheap and Easy...

    Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Jun 7, 2002
    Pros: very easy to set up, 60-second rewind, automatic clock set.
    Cons: no complaints so far.

    Summary: 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 ... read more

  • Great for the price

    Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Apr 5, 2002
    Pros: Warp speed rewind, Good Picture, Good Sound
    Cons: None

    Summary: 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 ... read more

  • I'd like this VCR if I could rely on it to keep working

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Mar 15, 2002
    Pros: Packed with nice features for a great price.
    Cons: Lack of quality control: 2 defective units in 6 months.

    Summary: 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 ... read more

  • Sony SLV-N51: Know What You Want in a VCR...Then You May Skip This One

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Jan 6, 2002
    Pros: Flash rewind, good picture quality
    Cons: No LCD counter

    Summary: 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 ... read more

  • It's a Sony and it's Cheap.

    Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Nov 28, 2001
    Pros: Fast rewind. Easy to use. It's a Sony and it's cheap.
    Cons: None so far.

    Summary: 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 ... read more

  • Could be better...

    Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Sep 1, 2001
    Pros: Fast rewind, good price
    Cons: a bit flimsy, poor remote

    Summary: 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 ... read more

  • Good, but.....

    Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Aug 31, 2001
    Pros: Cheap. Extremely fast rewind. Sony brand.
    Cons: Remote control badly designed; channels blank out when surfing

    Summary: 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 ... read more

  • Not Sony's Best VCR

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Aug 4, 2001
    Pros: Fast rewind, reasonable price
    Cons: Poor quality

    Summary: 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 ... read more

  • Pass on this one.

    Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Jul 26, 2001
    Pros: Rewind time is pretty fast, and the picture quality is pretty good.
    Cons: The construction is really cheap and flimsy.

    Summary: 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 ... read more

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  • Despite the other reviewer saying...

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    Nov 22, 2002

    Summary: Despite the other reviewer saying it won't play the same tapes more than a couple of times, I have h

  • Just want to tell everyone...

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    Mar 25, 2002

    Summary: Just want to tell everyone out there DO NOT buy this product. It's compact, the flash rewind is gre

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