Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Aug 12 '04
Pros: Low price, excellent performance from both VCR and DVD sections, Super Drive
Cons: No FireWire input, MP3 playback could be better, manual could be written better
Summary: It is strange but the best consumer-level VHS VCR you can get has just recently become available to the US customers, when the VCRs are dying. And even more strange is that it comes together with a DVD recorder in ...
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Dec 23 '05
Pros: Once trained, the quality is OK.
Cons: DVD-R disks are not playable everywhere.
Incredibly hard to use.
Summary: The WSJ recently did a story where they mentioned that the analyst predicted demand for home consumer DVD burners failed to materialize due to usability problems. I was happy to see that acknowledged! I'm pretty good with gadgets, but it took me ...
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Aug 05 '05
Pros: Dubbing to DVD from VHS very easy. Dubbing from Tivo is very conventional.
Cons: Weird User Manual.
Summary: Anybody here familiar with the Product Adoption Curve? Its the classic 'bell curve' that shows how consumers adopt new technology over the lifetime of a product. I am clearly not an Early Adopter, but am a consumer who typically buys a new technology ...
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May 30 '05
Pros: Easy dubbing between tape and DVD
Cons: Using tuner with DVD in tray
Summary: We treated ourselves to this unit as a Christmas present, and by Memorial Day weekend, I'm still very satisfied. One of the main reasons we decided on this unit was to transfer aging VHS tapes to DVD. These are both home movies and TV shows that we ...
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Apr 11 '05
Pros: Great quality, One-touch dubbing, Easy to use once you figure it out, Attractive styling
Cons: Quirky user interface, Difficult documentation, Can be -Very Frustrating- to use at first
Summary: I have many years of VHS and 8mm analog VCR tapes that are slowly deteriorating. I knew I needed to get them into a more durable format. I had already bought a new 3Ghz computer, with Analog/Digital hardware, DVD Writer, etc., but it was a bit ...
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Apr 01 '05
Pros: Quality output, ease of use, affordable media, price point
Cons: Media issues, cumbersome menu, missing several pro functions (firewire, etc...)
Summary: Overall, the experience I have had with this model has been good. We bought it to put our VHS collection and Hi8 tape collection over on more convenient and cheaper DVD media. What I have loved: 1) When watching DVD's recorded in XP record mode, you ...
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Mar 19 '05
Pros: Great for archiving vhs tapes
Cons: Cannot control position of chapter points in dvd-r recording
Summary: My family and relatives have been trying to convert upwards of 300 vhs and vhs-c tapes to dvd. We started with a USB capture device which captured the output of a vcr to a computer, then edit, add menus, and burn the dvd. For each tape, this took the ...
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Mar 11 '05
Pros: Feature laden, easy to use, decent picture quality, good value.
Cons: VCR missing slow reverse, tape counter not accurate.
Summary: I decided to purchase a DVD recorder/VHS combo machine in order to facilitate dubbing VHS tapes to DVDs and to start using a DVD recorder for daily recording. The DMR-E75 was reviewed in Consumer Reports and was also mentioned in another magazine ...
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Jan 16 '05
Pros: Great for dubbing VHS to DVD
Cons: Confusing manual
Summary: I purchased this unit primarily to copy VHS tapes to DVD. In the end, I'm very happy with the features and performance of this unit. I'd heard that the manual was bad, but I wasn't prepared for the amount of study required. Granted, the unit came ...
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Oct 30 '04
Pros: lots of features, can utilize both DVD and VCR Features
Cons: difficult to use, manual is awful,
Summary: My dad is one of those people who still has 4 good old Beta decks as well as several others in various conditions so he can use them for spare parts. We also have about 5-6 VHS decks but no dvd player. Go figure. After months of trying to convince him to ...
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Dec 04 '06
Pros: If it was running for president, I would vote for it!
Cons: A rocket scientist couldn't figure out the manual!
Summary: User guide is very unfriendly. I will be lucky to figure it out before the warranty runs out! It is a "Seek and Ye shall find" method. The user guide did make a great coloring book for the grand kids! UPDATE: Could not get VCR to record an acceptable
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Jul 07 '06
Pros: There aren't any
Cons: See review
Summary: Very difficult to use, extremely complicated to set up Slow in functioning, and pretty noisy too. I've thrown mine away and am now looking for a good VCR/DVD. Complete waste of
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Sep 25 '05
Pros: When it works, it works great.
Cons: It doesn't work.
Summary: I bought this machine to transfer home movies shot on my video camera on mini-DV tapes to DVD disks and VCR tapes. Everything hooked up just fine, but the DVD recorder worked only sporadically. Half the time, it wouldn't read a brand-new DVD-R disk.
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Jun 03 '05
Pros: Doesn't lose data. Works as advertised. One touch dubbing. The price is reasonable.
Cons: The manual takes a while to understand. Some functions hard to find on remote.
Summary: I purchased the Panasonic DMR-E75V DVD/VCR combo about 4 months ago and have had no problems with it. I read a lot of reviews here as well as some other places before I settled on this model. I've recorded about 6 DVD-R disks on 8-hour mode and never
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Mar 08 '05
Pros: Quality DVD-dubbed disks and good functionality overall.
Cons: No hard disk drive.
Summary: This is an attractive machine with good functionality, on both the main unit and remote control. The DVD recording times/modes are flexible and serve my needs. The recorded picture is superb and so is the sound. I bought it mainly for the purpose of
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