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JVC HRS-9911U S-VHS HiFi Stereo VCR

JVC HRS-9911U S-VHS HiFi Stereo VCR

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: WARNING: MAGNETS on the front of a VCR!
Review: I just opened my new JVC HR-S9911U VCR. On the front there's an acrylic panel that flips down to expose the tape slot. Incredibly, this panel is held up by MAGNETS mounted right next to the tape slot.

A VCR plays MAGNETIC tape. If there's anything you don't want on a tape player, it's MAGNETS. Not only does JVC put magnets on the outside of this device, they put them less than a centimeter from the tape slot. Will they erase your tape? Not entirely, I'm sure. Will they degrade your tape? You'll never know, because once you load your tape, it's too late.

It gets worse. JVC could have put the magnets on the acrylic part that flips down away from the tape, and just put pieces of metal next to the tape slot. They did just the opposite. The pieces on the flip-down panel are the non-magnetized ones. I put a picture of this blunder at http://getambitious.com/probs/stupidJVC.htm

Monumental stupidity from the company that invented VHS.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An Excellent Prosumer VCR
Review: Sure, people are transferring everything to digital or to DVD-R's but how are you getting that footage to the computer or DVD recorder? Remember - garbage in-garbage out.

Sure, it, costs more than a VCR you can pick up at the drugstore but then you get what you pay for.

Excluding multi format VCR's (mini DV, DVD combo, etc ...) this is the BEST VALUE VCR you can get. If you're like me and have a lot of tapes taped on different machines and you need something that can do real video calibration to make everything look nice - this is the VCR to get. The JVC Time-Base-Corrector (TBC) is the best of all the prosumer models. Tapes that play horribly on my Sharp & Sony play back perfectly on this.

Now, I only got this a couple days but if it's like my last JVC - 10 years later, that one is still running.

If you need stable playback across multi-branded tapes taped from multi-branded machines - this is the best value machine (there are more expensive JVC's) - don't even bother with spending any less. This is an excellent machine for prosumers and serious videophiles.

BTW, the front panel opens to reveal the tape and the remote has a scroll wheel.


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